The case for life on mars grows each day

[Kuciwalker]

btw, there are PLENTY of organism already that do "nasty things to oxygen". For example, humans. Can you believe it - we turn oxygen into carbon dioxide! And don't get me started on what plants do to water

Assuming anything COULD have an impact, it would simply be another link in the cycles of various elements.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
btw, there are PLENTY of organism already that do "nasty things to oxygen". For example, humans. Can you believe it - we turn oxygen into carbon dioxide! And don't get me started on what plants do to water

[Mercator]

I know
But when humans have introduced new species in some place, that often had a big effect on the environment. Couldn't an exploding alien microbe population mess up the equilibrium?

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Mercator
I know
But when humans have introduced new species in some place, that often had a big effect on the environment. Couldn't an exploding alien microbe population mess up the equilibrium?

In every such case the environment that the foreign organism was imported to was identical to at least a portion of the range of environments that the foreign organism was native to. There is essentially no overlap between environments on Mars and environments on Earth if you consider all the possible environmental variables.

[Mercator]

Bah!

[floppy_lobster]

I see my sarcastic nutjob tone set the pace of this thread well.

That aside. The thousands of km of Tubes have not been explained.

Nor have any of the other anomalies.

btw, there are PLENTY of organism already that do "nasty things to oxygen". For example, humans. Can you believe it - we turn oxygen into carbon dioxide! And don't get me started on what plants do to water

Kind of funny. I read a sci-fi book about martian microbes that fed on water and expelled toxic gasses. And in the book the microbes made it to earth and started armaggedon. There was no defense against it. Within a decade all freshwater lakes and oceans had been dried out and humans fled underground and too a moon base (in the book). I think they based a Outer Limits episode on it.

Cant remember the book name tho.

Im a huge space and sci-fi nut
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Also- OMFG DIDNT THE ESA HUYGENS PROBE DETACH ITSELF TODAY FROM CASSINI???? Pictures of Titans surface in -3 weeks!!!! We have seen the surface of Venus (God bless the ruskies) the moon, Mars and soon titan!

[chequita guevara]

What tubes? What anomalies?

[floppy_lobster]

just type in mars glass tubes in google

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by booger
Kind of funny. I read a sci-fi book about martian microbes that fed on water and expelled toxic gasses. And in the book the microbes made it to earth and started armaggedon. There was no defense against it. Within a decade all freshwater lakes and oceans had been dried out and humans fled underground and too a moon base (in the book). I think they based a Outer Limits episode on it.

There's a reason it's science fiction. Though in this case, it's just fiction, 'cuz the scenario you proposed is ridiculously impossible.

[Dis]

yeah, that's like saying Star Trek is plausible

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by booger
just type in mars glass tubes in google

I have better things to do. Why don't you tell me?

[Dis]

anyone who posts here does not have better things to do

[floppy_lobster]

no. u will just laugh. Hoagland is right. Its too dificult for those with big egos to accept the truth

[chequita guevara]

Of course I'll laugh.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by booger
I see my sarcastic nutjob tone set the pace of this thread well.

That aside. The thousands of km of Tubes have not been explained.

Nor have any of the other anomalies.

Funny, someone on Page 2 already gave a link to a page which pretty handily refutes the "glass tube" nonsense:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/glassworm.html

In fact, he pretty handily disposes of all the other, um, "anomalies."

Sadly, it seems the only case that is growing is that for Mars conspiracy theorists being utterly batty and in the same camp as Creationists and Flat-Earthers.