:pop Sounds like NASA has something they can't wait to tell the world about but they are quickly confirming it before they go public with the info per NPR this morning.
Think it is a form of life? Or evidence of past life? How cool it would be if they could discover organisms on another planet.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
The discovery was made by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, NPR reported today. SAM is the rover's onboard chemistry lab, and it's capable of identifying organic compounds — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it. That leads me to believe it's life and they're getting it quickly peer reviewed.
It could be life, or it could just be the potential for life. Do we have fossils, or do we just have the right building blocks available.
Personally I want to see thoats and Tharks.
Side note, one of the other landers had brought along a "soup" that Martian dirt could be put into. If there had been the right life, it should have grown in this chamber. I am guessing nothing grew.
Would it be ethical to introduce hardy Earth life onto the Martian planet? An interplanetary Cane Toad, or Andromeda Strain.
I would like to see them introduce Earth life on other planets.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
