Provisionally excited about the mars mold*
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Provisionally excited about the mars mold*
*or rather bacterial patch candidate, or possible strange geology weathering as not yet cataloged... which is almost as exciting as bacteria.
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Provisionally excited about the mars mold*
*or rather bacterial patch candidate, or possible strange geology weathering as not yet cataloged... which is almost as exciting as bacteria.
eeeeee what if someday they get a dollop and sequence it and it's not related to anything on earth eeee what if that happened
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Provisionally excited about the mars mold*
*or rather bacterial patch candidate, or possible strange geology weathering as not yet cataloged... which is almost as exciting as bacteria.
@futurebird I'm still in the stage of Mars rock is interesting just because it is Mars rock so whatever this turns out to be will blow my mind.
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eeeeee what if someday they get a dollop and sequence it and it's not related to anything on earth eeee what if that happened
If it's not the same that means there is bacteria on EVERYTHING basically.
Sadly I don't think we can know unless we send a way to test it up there OR find a way to bring it back.
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@futurebird I'm still in the stage of Mars rock is interesting just because it is Mars rock so whatever this turns out to be will blow my mind.
That is probably more sensible. But I want there to be bacterial on everything.
Because then we can assume space ants are real, right?
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If it's not the same that means there is bacteria on EVERYTHING basically.
Sadly I don't think we can know unless we send a way to test it up there OR find a way to bring it back.
@futurebird So, NASA at least used to do these kinds of analyses regularly, I remember hearing in the 90s about the first meteorites discovered with what they thought were fossilized bacteria remains. When I do a quick search I get a BUNCH of different hits on "precursors of life" analyses, so they DO think they have a way of distinguishing terrestrial from alien organisms, and they were looking, and maybe stil are (this administration yadayada)
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@futurebird So, NASA at least used to do these kinds of analyses regularly, I remember hearing in the 90s about the first meteorites discovered with what they thought were fossilized bacteria remains. When I do a quick search I get a BUNCH of different hits on "precursors of life" analyses, so they DO think they have a way of distinguishing terrestrial from alien organisms, and they were looking, and maybe stil are (this administration yadayada)
