Lake found on Mars
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can you imagine if they do some excavating and they find evidence of that "lake" being the martian equivolent of Lake Mead in Nevada? LOL.....I mean can you imagine the look on their faces when they find martian bikini tops, used martian condoms, old martian beer cans.....lol.....(yeah I know, I'm weird lol).
I pray that they find undeniable evidence of life. Imagine beneath the lake bed they find fossils of ancient animals? That would be mind-blowing. It would basically be proof that out there in outerspace lots of other planets are populated with life.
are or were populated with life......Smallcock said:
One of THE best lines I ever heard in a movie was from the movie Contact with Jodie Foster.
It went something like "with all the billions upon billions galaxies, with billions of planets, if we were the ONLY ones out here, wouldn't that be an awful waste of space"????
Priceless.....
I've always wondered how on another planet similar to earth it'd be cool if "humans" (ie. the most intelligent creatures on the planet) actually evolve as water creatures rather than land animals. It's pretty interesting that while the world is like 90% water, the most intelligent creature wound up being a land animal. The odds would suggest just the opposite. It'd be a very different place if we were actually creatures limited to living in water.
Our bodies are a large percent water and some scientists are still convinced our ancestors were not monkeys, they were FISH.Smallcock said:
I kind of disagree with your statement that we are the most intelligent creatures on the planet.Smallcock said:
No other species pollutes their environment the way we do, and there aren't many that kill each other with such impunity.
Just think of a whale's brain...it is what? 1000x larger and denser than ours? We just happen to have evolved to the point where we can create tools.....
Actually, the main difference is that we have reasoning....monkeys and ants can create tools with a bark from a tree.tboy said:
Otters routinely use rocks as anvils to open shellfish. Chimps use levers, hammers and digging tools.PurpleMonkey said:
Whales hunt in pods and assign roles to individual animals and co-ordinate attacks.
All life on this planet, whether dinosaurs, yeast or primates originally swam in the muck. Humans have both gills and a tail during gestation.
but only pittsburgh has a TODD gill....*hehehehe*Compromised said:
(I was watching some program last night and wifey is on the table having an ultrasound and the husband says "hey, why's he wearing a hockey helmet??? lol yeah, he got smacked lol)
Thats true since I'm a PiscesPurpleMonkey said:
Seriously though, there's a lot of shit going on Mars that the US govt isnt telling us.
Check this site and tell me there isnt funny stuff on Mars: http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/
Does this not look like vegetation??
If there's vegetation then there has to be life, at least in the microbial sense
There were a lot of GREAT LINES in that film.tboy said:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/quotes
It's on my top 10.
It doesn't matter, here's the point I was making: it is curious that the species that is most creative and that has the highest developed reasoning skills evolved on land rather than water since there are a gazillion more species in water and the world is 90% covered in water. Rudimentary statistics says such a species would have developed in water - but, this logic may be faulty.
Now, it would be pretty cool to find a species elsewhere (since it doesn't exist on earth) that shares our reasoning skills but is a 100% water species, just as we are 100% air breathing species.
Now, it would be pretty cool to find a species elsewhere (since it doesn't exist on earth) that shares our reasoning skills but is a 100% water species, just as we are 100% air breathing species.
Well, just remember one thing small....that even water borne creatures STILL breathe oxygen....they just filter it out of the water.....Smallcock said:
We may be the most creative, and possibly the most intelligent, and maybe the one with the most reasoning skills, but we're still the only species that sees no problem shitting in our cornflakes then complaining cause they taste like shit......
What makes you believe there are more species on land than in water?Garrett said:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090225115612AA0R8at
http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=6278
Nobody knows...
Your belief that a water species with our reasoning skills would use paper for reading is faulty. Humans didn't always use paper to read and write on. A water creature would obviously utilize other means, and I could be wrong, but I think many species under water see a lot better than we do. A underwater species with our reasoning skills doesn't mean they'll have the same eyesight that we do. You're making far too many assumptions.
