01-22-2010, 04:07 PM
I don't think so either Jimmmarks. They would not have released the photographs if this was the case. There is life on mars. I have no doubt about that. But I doubt we'll find evidence for it in the mars pictures released by nasa. Guys like Hoagland make a lot of noise, but I have browsed his site on multiple occasions and really, "looks like" seems to be converted to "is" rather easily... Most of the time I don't even know what part of the image is so seriously alive to him. Supposedly it's somewhere under the arrows.
Mars had a bit of a disaster, one side of the planet is marked with millions of impact craters while the other side is clean meaning that potentially there was an event where the majority of these came to be in just one martian day. This is enough damage to seriously set back life millions of years. However it would not have wiped out all life on the surface or under it. It's a barren planet, about as barren as our most desolate deserts... Teaming with life if you know how to look. The pathfinder missions our most successful missions up to date were not equipped with life detecting instruments. These devices are cheap compared to a mars mission. Either they were totally enrapt in the spell of a would be dead planet, or they carefully designed around discovering a living planet.
This is my current desktop background. Big picture so I decided against inlining it but here's a link. It's an artists impression of mars after terraforming. Or before it as the case might be.
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michae...listic.jpg
Mars had a bit of a disaster, one side of the planet is marked with millions of impact craters while the other side is clean meaning that potentially there was an event where the majority of these came to be in just one martian day. This is enough damage to seriously set back life millions of years. However it would not have wiped out all life on the surface or under it. It's a barren planet, about as barren as our most desolate deserts... Teaming with life if you know how to look. The pathfinder missions our most successful missions up to date were not equipped with life detecting instruments. These devices are cheap compared to a mars mission. Either they were totally enrapt in the spell of a would be dead planet, or they carefully designed around discovering a living planet.
This is my current desktop background. Big picture so I decided against inlining it but here's a link. It's an artists impression of mars after terraforming. Or before it as the case might be.
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michae...listic.jpg