| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 13:34 - Sep 28 with 2662 views | JackSomething |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 13:12 - Sep 28 by perchrockjack |
well, yes.
Man isn't exactly very good at looking after what he has.
Anyway, we ve had this "debate" before, although those space doubters were once again subjected to the puerile humpy cant that ruins it all.
In a nutshell, we ve much to do on planet earth and first and foremost stop screwing up and destroying what we have.
Obvious to me and others in the real world |
Any reason we can't work on both? |  |
| You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help. |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 13:48 - Sep 28 with 2654 views | Pegojack |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 13:12 - Sep 28 by perchrockjack |
well, yes.
Man isn't exactly very good at looking after what he has.
Anyway, we ve had this "debate" before, although those space doubters were once again subjected to the puerile humpy cant that ruins it all.
In a nutshell, we ve much to do on planet earth and first and foremost stop screwing up and destroying what we have.
Obvious to me and others in the real world |
I've never understood this arguement. Stop space exploration because we can use the money better on earth.
If you want to stop things because the money can be used better elsewhere, why don't we start with nuclear weapons, including Trident? |  | | |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 13:58 - Sep 28 with 2645 views | Brynmill_Jack |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 21:29 - Sep 27 by Darran |
Personally I couldn't care less what it is because it's not going to help the people of earth.
A complete and utter waste of f*cking money that could be used to help humanity the same as the moon landings and without doubt the biggest waste of money ever the Hadron Collider.
Add it all up and think what it could do for the world,this f*cking world. |
I bet you secretly love the large hardon collider don't you. |  |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 14:00 - Sep 28 with 2637 views | Darran |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 13:48 - Sep 28 by Pegojack |
I've never understood this arguement. Stop space exploration because we can use the money better on earth.
If you want to stop things because the money can be used better elsewhere, why don't we start with nuclear weapons, including Trident? |
We need that incase the Martians attack us mun. |  |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 14:40 - Sep 28 with 2601 views | Pegojack |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 14:00 - Sep 28 by Darran |
We need that incase the Martians attack us mun. |
I never thought of that.
Anyway, I think they've discovered the European Beagle 2 explorer. It isn't smashed up, but the Martians wouldn't let it drive because it's fitted with a VW diesel engine. | | | |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 17:26 - Sep 28 with 2536 views | londonlisa2001 |
The delicious irony of today's announcement by NASA is that the people made to look incredibly stupid now (the 'Tea Party' type fundamentalist Christians and their equivalent in other religions) will be too stupid to realise exactly what the implications of the finding are and why it makes them look so ridiculous. |  | | |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:07 - Sep 28 with 2515 views | Gowerjack |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 17:26 - Sep 28 by londonlisa2001 |
The delicious irony of today's announcement by NASA is that the people made to look incredibly stupid now (the 'Tea Party' type fundamentalist Christians and their equivalent in other religions) will be too stupid to realise exactly what the implications of the finding are and why it makes them look so ridiculous. |
Exactly Lisa
And a few on this thread who should know better.
At our current level of understanding water is essential for any form of life so to find evidence of it's existence on the nearest planet in an infinate universe is pretty damn significant in my opinion.
Just consider the potential effect on our religious fanatics for example. |  |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:14 - Sep 28 with 2510 views | dgt73 |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 17:26 - Sep 28 by londonlisa2001 |
The delicious irony of today's announcement by NASA is that the people made to look incredibly stupid now (the 'Tea Party' type fundamentalist Christians and their equivalent in other religions) will be too stupid to realise exactly what the implications of the finding are and why it makes them look so ridiculous. |
Doesn't change a thing |  |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:18 - Sep 28 with 2504 views | londonlisa2001 |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:14 - Sep 28 by dgt73 |
Doesn't change a thing |
Beautifully proving my point  | | | |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:19 - Sep 28 with 2501 views | londonlisa2001 |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:07 - Sep 28 by Gowerjack |
Exactly Lisa
And a few on this thread who should know better.
At our current level of understanding water is essential for any form of life so to find evidence of it's existence on the nearest planet in an infinate universe is pretty damn significant in my opinion.
Just consider the potential effect on our religious fanatics for example. |
It's an amazing discovery and yet people don't seem to appreciate why? | | | |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:19 - Sep 28 with 2501 views | dgt73 |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:18 - Sep 28 by londonlisa2001 |
Beautifully proving my point |
It doesn't prove anything | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:27 - Sep 28 with 2493 views | Gowerjack |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:18 - Sep 28 by londonlisa2001 |
Beautifully proving my point |
Yep.
It's down to his ingrained stupidity coupled to an inability to think for himself.
Bless.... | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:32 - Sep 28 with 2486 views | dgt73 |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:27 - Sep 28 by Gowerjack |
Yep.
It's down to his ingrained stupidity coupled to an inability to think for himself.
Bless.... |
Come back when they've found life, not a single building block to life. Talk about jumping the gun. | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:41 - Sep 28 with 2475 views | blueytheblue |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:07 - Sep 28 by Gowerjack |
Exactly Lisa
And a few on this thread who should know better.
At our current level of understanding water is essential for any form of life so to find evidence of it's existence on the nearest planet in an infinate universe is pretty damn significant in my opinion.
Just consider the potential effect on our religious fanatics for example. |
Well, it's our current level of understanding predicated upon life being like human life. I don't view it as being particularly significant. Odds of neighbouring planets having water in an infinite universe isn't that high. | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:20 - Sep 28 with 2441 views | Gowerjack |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:41 - Sep 28 by blueytheblue |
Well, it's our current level of understanding predicated upon life being like human life. I don't view it as being particularly significant. Odds of neighbouring planets having water in an infinite universe isn't that high. |
Not just human life.
All life as we currently understand it.
Your other point is unquantifiable. | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:27 - Sep 28 with 2314 views | blueytheblue |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:20 - Sep 28 by Gowerjack |
Not just human life.
All life as we currently understand it.
Your other point is unquantifiable. |
As we currently understand it being the operative word.
May well be alien life not requiring water. No way of telling till that happens.
Unquantifiable, not quite. You'd have to reverse the point to claim in an infinite universe no two neighbouring planets could have water. Chances of that would be zero. | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:38 - Sep 28 with 2300 views | londonlisa2001 |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:41 - Sep 28 by blueytheblue |
Well, it's our current level of understanding predicated upon life being like human life. I don't view it as being particularly significant. Odds of neighbouring planets having water in an infinite universe isn't that high. |
Any carbon based life. Anything that we would consider 'life'. That doesn't preclude other types of life of course. But not as we know it Jim :-)
And it's not odds of any neighbouring planets having water in an infinite universe, it's the odds of the one next to us also having water that should be considered surely. | | | |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:40 - Sep 28 with 2298 views | EvenThisNameIsTaken |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:32 - Sep 28 by dgt73 |
Come back when they've found life, not a single building block to life. Talk about jumping the gun. |
Did you learn in school anything about EVOLUTION??
You know, the bit where we evolved from molecules that was found in the water on Earth?
Just saying - where there's water there's a good chance of life. Even if we were to just monitor the research the primordial lifeforms discovered in space - it may give us a huge wealth of knowledge and greater understanding on how we came to be. | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:43 - Sep 28 with 2293 views | Highjack |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 18:32 - Sep 28 by dgt73 |
Come back when they've found life, not a single building block to life. Talk about jumping the gun. |
They didn't announce they've found life, they announced they'd found liquid water. The important point that you're missing is they now know that life is possible there. Before this discovery it was impossible there. It's a rather giant leap in scientific terms but I wouldn't expect you to understand that anyway. |  |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:43 - Sep 28 with 2292 views | dgt73 |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:40 - Sep 28 by EvenThisNameIsTaken |
Did you learn in school anything about EVOLUTION??
You know, the bit where we evolved from molecules that was found in the water on Earth?
Just saying - where there's water there's a good chance of life. Even if we were to just monitor the research the primordial lifeforms discovered in space - it may give us a huge wealth of knowledge and greater understanding on how we came to be. |
Have they found life outside of this planet yes or no........it not a hard question. | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:44 - Sep 28 with 2292 views | blueytheblue |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:38 - Sep 28 by londonlisa2001 |
Any carbon based life. Anything that we would consider 'life'. That doesn't preclude other types of life of course. But not as we know it Jim :-)
And it's not odds of any neighbouring planets having water in an infinite universe, it's the odds of the one next to us also having water that should be considered surely. |
Yup, Lisa but those odds only matter in a finite universe - there's a boundary, a finite size.
When it's infinite those odds become effective binary - size becomes irrelevant as there's no boundary to the sample size. Two planets having water next to us either happens or it doesn't - meaning in a universe with no boundary no two neighbouring planets could have water or at least one pair of planets have water. Odds would very much be in favour of the latter scenario.
I'm happy to rest my argument. I'm happy to admit my stats / probability knowledge has declined over the year but only a maths geek could prove me wrong - and anyone reading would be asleep after the first sentence. | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:47 - Sep 28 with 2290 views | exiledclaseboy |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:43 - Sep 28 by dgt73 |
Have they found life outside of this planet yes or no........it not a hard question. |
Skaro. There was a documentary on BBC1 about it on Saturday. |  |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:50 - Sep 28 with 2283 views | Gowerjack |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:47 - Sep 28 by exiledclaseboy |
Skaro. There was a documentary on BBC1 about it on Saturday. |
Bit messy in the sewers wasn't it?
I almost felt sorry for them.... | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:54 - Sep 28 with 2275 views | exiledclaseboy |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:50 - Sep 28 by Gowerjack |
Bit messy in the sewers wasn't it?
I almost felt sorry for them.... |
It's not much of a retirement that's for sure. | |
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| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:55 - Sep 28 with 2272 views | londonlisa2001 |
| what has NASA discovered on Mars? on 19:40 - Sep 28 by EvenThisNameIsTaken |
Did you learn in school anything about EVOLUTION??
You know, the bit where we evolved from molecules that was found in the water on Earth?
Just saying - where there's water there's a good chance of life. Even if we were to just monitor the research the primordial lifeforms discovered in space - it may give us a huge wealth of knowledge and greater understanding on how we came to be. |
You could have finished your sentence after the first 6 words to be honest. | | | |
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