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ymgve t1_ixz3ty7 wrote

Give me an article I can read, not a video

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AlexandersWonder t1_ixz7jpz wrote

Wait, do you mean to tell me that the title isn’t the article?

^^^/s

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ALurkerForcedToLogin t1_ixza328 wrote

In this case, the title is the article. Also, we already knew that Mars might have had life on it, simply by the definition of might. This video is a click generator, noting else.

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PlayfulParamedic2626 t1_ixzh93t wrote

In August 1996, a group of scientists announced that they had found evidence of ancient life on Mars. This evidence included bacteria-shaped objects and organic chemical molecules in the martian meteorite ALH 84001, which was collected in Antarctica.

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/marslife/index.shtml

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Plzbanmebrony t1_ixzu2dr wrote

I don't care about a single possible cell. Show me a group of possible cell and show me that they were eating something in the rock and show me the poop.

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PlayfulParamedic2626 t1_ixzvk6k wrote

Life on other planets doesn’t need cells.

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Plzbanmebrony t1_ixzwfnz wrote

Hwat are you talking about. Cells=life. Chemical soup is not life unless it has a cell wall of some sort.

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worthwhilewrongdoing t1_iy00yj1 wrote

Our definitions of life match what we've seen, not what it must be.

I'd think that if we saw evidence of some sort of amorphous autonomous chemical soup on another planet moving around and making decisions, we might have to start reconsidering some things.

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Badtrainwreck t1_iy1n712 wrote

Self replicating Campbell’s soup, it would be endless soup.

I always thought about how when we say “nothing can live in _______” that we could only say that because we can’t imagine what could live in places we see as uninhabitable for us.

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IamAFlaw t1_iy0o7lk wrote

I can show you my poop. I have a big one in the oven almost ready.

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straighttoplaid t1_iy1ww7o wrote

Reddit has proven that something can poop, yet still have no life.

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JaggedMetalOs t1_iy1mkcw wrote

That's not believed to be good evidence of past life on Mars because the objects are tiny, much smaller than any known terrestrial bacteria. Researchers were also able to produce similar shapes using non-biological methods.

It's still possible these are some kind of life much smaller than earth life, but it's thought unlikely.

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PlayfulParamedic2626 t1_iy1mqqq wrote

You think todays findings are bullet proof?

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JaggedMetalOs t1_iy2047s wrote

Just tempting expectations, as ALH 84001 is often overhyped as solid evidence of past life on Mars.

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leoheck t1_ixz9fbm wrote

Wait. Are you saying there is something hidden in the post's picture?

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scarabic t1_iy26fwd wrote

Especially a short video that cuts off before saying anything interesting.

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elegance78 t1_ixz80sw wrote

Yeah, total clickbait and wrong. If anything, the recent papers indicate presence of much less water in Jezero than expected.

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HiImDan t1_iy1er1c wrote

Duh the ancient life drank it all

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4TheOutdoors t1_ixz9zu0 wrote

Water existed on mars and some organic material. Don’t click

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Dr_ChungusAmungus t1_ixzb318 wrote

Organic material is remains of organisms and would be a huge deal

refers to the large source of carbon-based compounds found within natural and engineered, terrestrial, and aquatic environments. It is matter composed of organic compounds that have come from the feces and remains of organisms such as plants and animals.[1] Organic molecules can also be made by chemical reactions that do not involve life.

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4TheOutdoors t1_ixzcbh6 wrote

They said organic compounds specifically. Sorry for any confusion

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Words_Are_Hrad t1_ixzcdxf wrote

Organic compounds, molecules with carbon in them. Not organic material in the context of dead remains of organisms.

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Dr_ChungusAmungus t1_ixzdlou wrote

Organic Matter- you are correct but it still would be a more promising indicator that life could have been there.

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scarabic t1_iy26vw8 wrote

You could say the presence of atoms is a promising indicator that life could have been there. After all, life isn’t possible without atoms! And we know that on earth, living things leave many atoms behind!

See how silly this sounds? It’s the same with “organic compounds.” No, it doesn’t mean anything on its own unless the types and concentrations of them are unlikely to occur naturally. Which we did not get any indication of from this video.

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scarabic t1_iy26mfb wrote

> Organic molecules can also be made by chemical reactions that do not involve life.

This is the part people often confuse. Organic compounds are not always left behind by life. Some of them form spontaneously in dirty water when exposed to sunlight.

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Dr_ChungusAmungus t1_iy48ifw wrote

I fell into the same misunderstanding, when I looked it up I came back and changed it

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jens-2420 t1_ixz81t3 wrote

„May have been…“ is not a scientific result.

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Wounded_Hand t1_ixznnm4 wrote

Yea, that sounds like it’s not a discovery at all.

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greybie_ t1_ixzcplt wrote

"May have been"

Stop playin with me NASA. More breadcrumbing bullshit is what this is

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Chris77123 t1_iy047ok wrote

They should go look for life on Europa under the ice not on Mars where there is maybe some dead fosilized microbes

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[deleted] t1_ixzdxbc wrote

Interesting how the definition of “life” changes so easily

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superNoid t1_iy2n72g wrote

Ya I mean, aren’t these just a clump of cells?

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RandomUser1076 t1_ixzcpy0 wrote

I knew it, we fucked Mara and came to earth to start again, by using monkeys

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Pale_Establishment32 t1_ixzdcem wrote

It’s bin laden, Tupac , biggie and all the rest of the so called dead ppl

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Sir-Farts- t1_iy0mius wrote

CNN discovers misleading titles gets more views.

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Muuustachio t1_iy0sk7m wrote

Isn't there a giant face on Mars??

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FourAM t1_iy1z5zb wrote

I swear if it’s not a 1 or a 0 you nerds are convinced it’s bad science.

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fd1Jeff t1_iy262cn wrote

Glad I didn’t click. But maybe the question is . . . A god awful small affair, to the girl with the mousy hair

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TigerKingz t1_iy2dzd2 wrote

Any chance this Reddit forum can ban these click bait articles on life existing/existed on Mars ?

The proper article title should be NASA again cannot confirm life existed in Mars. But that’s not click bait.

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Captain_N1 t1_iy6zfon wrote

Its just saying that the ingredients for life were present. It does not mean they actlly mixed and began self replication. It also does not rule out that life was present in the distant past. 3 billion years ago, Venus could have had oceans as the sun was alot less hot back then and Venus would have been in the habital zone.

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Nymphaelotus t1_iy12iom wrote

Every few years we hear of another story is similar like this.

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