UFO's and E.T.'s

Ah found it...

The photograph, taken in 2004 by the Mars explorer Spirit,
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The image is a recent Nasa posting of the Spirit's landing in 2004.
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You're right, it does say that!
Where does it say the picture was taken this month though? (I honestly can't find where) Because it is possible it was taken in 2004, but the pic was just released recently. Mmmmaaaaybe?
 
Myrrh said:
I never got the lake thing but that does look like a person.
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THAT'S NO MOON.
 
Olivir said:
Ah found it...



You're right, it does say that!
Where does it say the picture was taken this month though? (I honestly can't find where) Because it is possible it was taken in 2004, but the pic was just released recently. Mmmmaaaaybe?
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/index.html
NASA'S Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this westward view from atop a low plateau where Sprit spent the closing months of 2007.
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It was taken before Spirit were "shut down" in order to sleep through the Winter period when the sun won't shine, and thus won't be able to power it. That was in the end of December. The images were released January Second.

Edit: It would be easy for NASA to prove this right or wrong. When it powers up again, take more images from the same spot, and see if its still there. Can also send it to the lake to see if there's water.
 
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Alyada said:
Wait, wait, wait

let me get this straight. People actually believed that, for a moment, that wasn't a rock? And there was a lake on mars?

Ho-lee-shit.
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Of course Aly, don't you know that bi-pedal humanoid creatures can easily live on a planet whose atmospher is almost 95% carbon dioxide and the surface temperature reaches about -140 degrees during the Martian winter? Let's not even concern ourselves with the level of solar radiation that one would be exposed to on the surface. Let us also ignore our lessons from middle school Earth science with regards to the existence of surface water on Mars with its atmospheric pressures that are less than 1% of the earth's atmosphere! :)
 
Valandil said:
Of course Aly, don't you know that bi-pedal humanoid creatures can easily live on a planet whose atmospher is almost 95% carbon dioxide and the surface temperature reaches about -140 degrees during the Martian winter? Let's not even concern ourselves with the level of solar radiation that one would be exposed to on the surface. Let us also ignore our lessons from middle school Earth science with regards to the existence of surface water on Mars with its atmospheric pressures that are less than 1% of the earth's atmosphere! :)
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I am seriously curious about one thing...
Living beings that live on earth can only live under earth-like conditions.
Is it necessarily so that -all- living beings -anywhere- have to live in earth-like conditions? Can't they have adapted to live under other situations? I know diddly-squat-science, but I think/believe it should be quite possible that a living thing could live under such different circumstances, and even retain a similar appearance to Earth-beings, just prolly very different looking insides? Iiiiii dunno!

But I am really curious about that :|
 
Thats A Death Star!

Wtf? It changes my all caps to all caps for every first letter?

Stupid.
 
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Anttaru said:
What is Mars Ice made out of ?
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There is a huge difference, in terms of geology and hydrology, between ice and water. Liquid water cannot exist on the surface of Mars except in an extremely low-lying topography and only for a matter of seconds. Due to the virtual lack of an atmosphere, liquid water evaporates almost instantly. It's pretty hard to have a lake that makes waves without water in a liquid form.
 
Olivir said:
I am seriously curious about one thing...
Living beings that live on earth can only live under earth-like conditions.
Is it necessarily so that -all- living beings -anywhere- have to live in earth-like conditions? Can't they have adapted to live under other situations? I know diddly-squat-science, but I think/believe it should be quite possible that a living thing could live under such different circumstances, and even retain a similar appearance to Earth-beings, just prolly very different looking insides? Iiiiii dunno!

But I am really curious about that :|
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Unless their skin is made of lead, there is no way a complex organism could survive the amount of radiation on the surface of Mars. Could life have existed on Mars in the past? Probably. But you're not going to find monkey-like creatures roaming about there in 2008. It's just a rock. Remember all the ado about the supposed "Face of Mars?" Guess what, it was just a rock with some interesting weathering features which caused a coincidental interplay of shadow and light.
 
Olivir said:
I am seriously curious about one thing...
Living beings that live on earth can only live under earth-like conditions.
Is it necessarily so that -all- living beings -anywhere- have to live in earth-like conditions? Can't they have adapted to live under other situations? I know diddly-squat-science, but I think/believe it should be quite possible that a living thing could live under such different circumstances, and even retain a similar appearance to Earth-beings, just prolly very different looking insides? Iiiiii dunno!

But I am really curious about that :|
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Yes, but in a place such as Mars with no atmosphere, the sun would burn through their skin, as Valandil explained. That's why the biologists expect to find bacteria, cells etc. (read: less complicated beings), as those are the best organisms in the world to adapt to ANY situation. That includes extremely basic, or extremely acidic environments. There's bacteria living underwater near volcanoes, where volcanic eruptions cause the water to become 3500 degrees hot.

Also, Valandil is correct. The reason its hard to boil eggs on high altitudes, is because of the atmospheric pressure preventing water from going boiling at 99c. this means the water won't become as hot, which means the eggs will have a hard time getting boiled. Under higher preassure, water has a higher boiling point. Under no atmospheric pressure, water would exist either as ice, or as vapour. It requires a pretty exact temperature of something like 1c for water to exist in liquid form. Anything more or less means it will either vaporize or freeze.

However, they did find a large amount of silica, with an almost 90% pure silica content. Silica is one of the things scientists believe living beings can be made of. So if there is life on Mars, it could possibly be silica-based.
 
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