On 23 Jul 2006 20:37:56 -0700, "Penn" <pennarin@gmail.com> wrote:
A lifeless Mars permits the argument that "yes the origin of life is (possibly) rare, but if
life were to have started on Mars, it would have evolved (as all life should, evolutionarily
speaking) into more and more complex forms."
Trumpet *is* a dumb *****, its not him we should answer to but the
original authors he keeps quoting.
This is in answer to David whatshislastname:
There are still bacteria on Earth...even though bacteria in the past
have evolved into all current forms of life.
So what?
They are still there.
We still haven't searched for fossils on Mars, not counting the
ALH84001. When machines and people have logged hundred of hours of
digging in various likely places for fossil records, we'll know if
there ever was more complex life on Mars besides single cell organisms.
Saying "I don't think so" or "I think it likely" won't affect unfolding
events, just like any other form of wishful thinking
At the moment we have no reason to think there was ever life of any
sort on Mars. And it is not wishful thinking. I would by far prefer
Mars to have large lifeforms on it. That would be cool.
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