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Perseverance - the hunt for life on mars

Post by GunnyGene » Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:11 pm

Perseverance will (hopefully) make a successful descent to the Martian surface tomorrow, and begin the search for evidence that life once existed on the planet.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nasas-mar ... -our-world

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spac ... SKBN2AH19E

NASA Perseverance site with schedule, etc.

https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
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Re: Perseverance - the hunt for life on mars

Post by North Country Gal » Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:27 pm

Been watching this, too. Very interesting, but, then, I have always been an astronomy nut.
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Re: Perseverance - the hunt for life on mars

Post by JEBar » Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:37 pm

agree .... we will be watching
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Re: Perseverance - the hunt for life on mars

Post by GunnyGene » Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:43 pm

North Country Gal wrote:
Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:27 pm
Been watching this, too. Very interesting, but, then, I have always been an astronomy nut.
I've always liked the comment that "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" , in this context. They may not find any evidence. I think it could be months or years before we find out anything substantial. Or they could find irrefutable evidence next week. :)
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Re: Perseverance - the hunt for life on mars

Post by RanchRoper » Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:54 pm

I have a bad feeling about this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBT68a56s70
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Re: Perseverance - the hunt for life on mars

Post by GunnyGene » Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:46 pm

RanchRoper wrote:
Wed Feb 17, 2021 3:54 pm
I have a bad feeling about this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBT68a56s70
That was a fun movie. Been an uncountable number of movies, myths, legends, stories, speculations, unexplained archeological artifacts, theories, books and even 20,000 yo rock paintings that have tackled the subject of life beyond this planet for many centuries.

"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." J.B.S. Haldane
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Re: Perseverance - the hunt for life on mars

Post by BigAl52 » Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:55 pm

I hope they do find something there. We need a place to send a few folks that are here making life miserable here for us good people. I have a list that will take a while to get through depending on how many seats are in that rocket.
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Re: Perseverance - the hunt for life on mars

Post by RanchRoper » Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:18 pm

BigAl52 wrote:
Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:55 pm
I hope they do find something there. We need a place to send a few folks that are here making life miserable here for us good people. I have a list that will take a while to get through depending on how many seats are in that rocket.
Why stop at Mars, I hear Pluto is nice this time of year.
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Re: Perseverance - the hunt for life on mars

Post by North Country Gal » Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:57 pm

That was hilarious, RR. :) :) :) Thanks.
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Re: Perseverance - the hunt for life on mars

Post by GunnyGene » Wed Feb 17, 2021 8:13 pm

RanchRoper wrote:
Wed Feb 17, 2021 7:18 pm
BigAl52 wrote:
Wed Feb 17, 2021 6:55 pm
I hope they do find something there. We need a place to send a few folks that are here making life miserable here for us good people. I have a list that will take a while to get through depending on how many seats are in that rocket.
Why stop at Mars, I hear Pluto is nice this time of year.
Pluto already has fleas.
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