[extropy-chat] Confirmation of microbes in Mars meteorite

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Russell Evermore <nanowave at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I very much like the possibility that life here on Earth may have
> originated
> on Mars. Despite the "God of War" mythology (which does tend to
> explain a
> few things) the possibility that two independent instances of genesis
> might
> arise in a single star system seems more than a little disturbing.

I would say no. Given what we expect to find in the oceans of Europa
and other slushy moons of Jupiter, and possibly Titan as well, I'd say
that life's fecundity should be expected to be attempted wherever
possible. It is intelligence that is rare, requiring a world that is
stable long enough to produce it, and which produces the kind of
intelligence that is capable of reaching for the stars. 
Given the intelligence of Porpoises, parrots, and other apes besides
man, all of which have demonstrated cognitive and language skills,
technological intelligence is the rare bird.

> The Fermi
> Paradox looms up in our faces and we must contend with interstellar
> predators, duplicitous Visitors, imminent self-destruction, or
> doorways
> leading to parallel universes, miniated with apparently compelling
> moral
> imperatives to step into them.
> 
> I'd really rather be a Martian.
> 
> RE
> nanowave at shaw.ca
> 
> 
> > Confirmation of microbes in Mars meteorite
> 
> 
> > We're all from Mars: scientists
> > Graeme Webber
> > January 30, 2004
> > THE Martians are not coming - they've probably already arrived on
> earth.
> And
> > we could be their descendants.
> >
> > Two Australian scientists have developed new technology to confirm
> claims
> by
> > NASA that a meteorite from Mars found in Antarctica in 1984
> contained
> > microscopic fossils from the red planet.
> > Scientists have fiercely debated whether the ancient, microscopic
> compounds
> > were deposited by ancient bacteria or natural chemical reactions -
> and
> > whether such bacteria was Martian or moved in after the meteorite
> fell to
> > earth.
> > But biophysicist Dr Tony Taylor from the Australian Nuclear Science
> and
> > Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in Sydney and the University of
> Queensland's
> > Professor John Barry devised a new technique which they say affirms
> the
> > Martian microbe theory "beyond reasonable doubt".
> >
> >
>
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8533660%255E15306,00.html
> >
> >
> > Emlyn
> >
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Mike Lorrey
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                                       - Gen. John Stark
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                                       - Mike Lorrey
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