Give me an article I can read, not a video

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

^^^/s

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

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

I thought the xenon already proved this

No. They didn't.

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

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

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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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.

They said organic compounds specifically. Sorry for any confusion

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

"May have been"

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

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

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

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

Interesting how the definition of “life” changes so easily

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

Of course! I saw a documentary on this called John Carter

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

Can confirm, I was a Thark.

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.

Life on other planets doesn’t need cells.

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

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.

Obvious joke is obvious mate.

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

Due diligence.

CNN discovers misleading titles gets more views.

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

Isn't there a giant face on Mars??

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

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Duh the ancient life drank it all

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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.

You think todays findings are bullet proof?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

> 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.

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.

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.

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

I’m more interested in Titan

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

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.