It doesn't imply that life *does* exist but it makes it *a lot* more
likely that life could exist, or could have once existed. I don't think
that Mars has much of a magnetic field so it's unlikely that there's any
huge sub-surface community of organisms now - but there may well have
been in the past before the core cooled down.
Where this is going is that if life did once exist on Mars then we
would have to consider the strong probability that some forms of life on
Earth are probably related to Mars life-forms ...
And no - I don't know if they would have preferred VI to EMACS...
--
Edmund Cramp
http://www.emgsrus.com/graffiti.htm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
> Of John Hebert
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:28 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] [Fwd: Found it! Ice on Mars]
>
>
> I don't understand how the presence of water implies
> that life necessarily exists natively on Mars. It
> certainly implies that life could exist or could have
> existed.
>
> It does imply that we could live there, much more
> easily than has been supposed in the past. Look for $
> from the industrial mega-corps flowing into NASA soon
> to sponsor further investigation. We could be seeing
> the beginnings of a new race to space!
>
> John Hebert
>
> --- Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ding! ding! ding! right answer....
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 19:06, Doug wrote:
> > > LIFE
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Shannon Roddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 6:08 PM
> > > Subject: [brlug-general] [Fwd: Found it! Ice on
> > Mars]
> > >
> > >
> > > > You guys know what this means huh?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Forwarded Message-----
> > > >
> > > > > From: NASA Science News
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > To: NASA Science News
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > Subject: Found it! Ice on Mars
> > > > > Date: 28 May 2002 16:12:02 -0500
> > > > >
> > > > > NASA Science News for May 28, 2002
> > > > >
> > > > > Heat up a bucketful of dirt from some parts of
> > Mars and what do you get?
> > > > > A half-bucket of liquid water! Scientists
> > analyzing data from NASA's
> > > Mars
> > > > > Odyssey spacecraft have found surprising
> > amounts of underground
> > > water-ice
> > > > > on the Red Planet, enough to fill Lake
> > Michigan twice over.
> > > > >
> > > > > FULL STORY at
> > > > >
> > > > >
> >
> http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/28may_marsice.htm?list122701
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