Evidence of life on Mars currently

[Hellbent]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/science/a-new-clue-in-the-search-for-life-on-mars.html?_r=0
SAN FRANCISCO — Life on Mars? Today? The notion may not be so far-fetched after all.

A year after reporting that NASA’s Curiosity rover had found no evidence of methane gas on Mars, all but dashing hopes that organisms might be living there now, scientists reversed themselves on Tuesday.

Curiosity has now recorded a burst of methane that lasted at least two months.

For now, scientists have just two possible explanations for the methane. One is that it is the waste product of certain living microbes.

[Du Mhan Yhu]

UAC needs to fund this.

[GreyGhost]

No mention yet of what style of shirt was worn for the news conference, so I expect this story will sink like a stone.

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Hellbent said:

Curiosity has now recorded a burst of methane that lasted at least two months.

I couldn't help laughing.

[geo]

fraggle said:

I couldn't help laughing.

The planet farted? Maybe its not life on Mars, but the planet itself is alive. Forget Mother Nature, its Old Man Red Rock.

[Hellbent]

Discovery Channel is airing a special documentary on the Rover tonight.

From Space.com:
The Discovery Channel will chronicle Rover's amazing journey in a special broadcast tonight (Dec. 18).
The Discovery Channel documentary "Red Planet Rover" will chronicle Curiosity's mission to explore Gale Crater on Mars. This week, NASA announced that Curiosity has discovered organic molecules on Mars, as well as water locked inside Martian rocks and a strange methane spike in the planet's atmosphere. Tonight, Discovery Channel will cast a spotlight on the organic matter discovery.
"Viewers will get access unlike anything else seen before, and take an incredible ride with the smartest, most complex robot ever launched from Earth – a one-ton, nuclear powered, all-terrain vehicle, part geologist, part chemist, part photographer," the Discovery Channel's show description reads.

[Clonehunter]

GreyGhost said:

No mention yet of what style of shirt was worn for the news conference, so I expect this story will sink like a stone.

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[Merry Widow]

geo said:

The planet farted? Maybe its not life on Mars, but the planet itself is alive. Forget Mother Nature, its Old Man Red Rock.

Thanks for the great laugh,Geo.The way you put that made you sound so surprised.

[William Blazkowicz]

Du Mhan Yhu said:

UAC needs to fund this.

So that they can have scientists go there and screw around with portals, eventually letting demons into the real world.

[geo]

William Blazkowicz said:

So that they can have scientists go there and screw around with portals, eventually letting demons into the real world.

They won't mean to do it. You gotta put toxic waste somewhere! It will suck for them that Earth will make them ship toxic waste that far.

[Stygian]

I'm not saying it's giant mutant cockroaches, but it's probably giant mutant cockroaches.
http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/14/146951/3730489-4143506524-13631.jpg

[MajorRawne]

It might be the Dragon, a C'Tan who ended up entombed beneath Mars's surface. In which case I would have to kill it. With a lasgun. So I may as well not bother. In other news, I gave a burst of methane this morning, but far from being a sign of life, it killed a few house plants. Don't believe everything science tells you, laddie.