Life on Mars

[YinyangDK]

Our solar system is 5+ billion years old.
Our planet is about 3.7 billion years old.
Multicelled fossils can only be found in rocks younger than 1 billion years.
From multicelled organisms to today 1 billion years have past.

If Mars had water in liquid form, and we know that it once had!
Mars could have develloped intelligent life forms.
If this "sociaty"/ecosystem had develloped 1.5 billion tears ago and had crashed .5 billion years later.

Would we be any wiser?

[siledre]

I figure eventually humans will have rocks of their own.

[cosmictraveler]

Would we be any wiser?

No. Humans will always be greedy and pompus with their ways of living with each other.

[draqon]

We could very well be survivors from Mars...


deep in my dreams I have hidden a light of past of life I was once part of, on Mars.

[Captain Kremmen]

If they do find life on mars , will David Bowie have a follow up record?

[YinyangDK]

I would like to think that if this senario was found to be true, then we would be able to discover just what went wrong on Mars and there by overcome the faults of future events.

[kaneda]

YinYangDK. A bit of nitpicking.

The Earth and the solar system are about 4.6 billion years old. Life appeared about four billion years ago.

Yes, life could have come about on Mars and vanished long ago. But we have found methane on Mars and the only explanation we have for that at present is life on Mars (probably bacteria, etc below the surface).

[blobrana]

Ultraviolet light identifies organics
"A team of scientists from the US and the UK has developed a technique using ultraviolet light to identify organic matter in soils that could be used to find life on Mars.
Chemical compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), often are found on comets, meteorites and in space between the stars, and are considered candidates for being one of the earliest forms of organic matter in the universe."

Read more (http://www.britainnews.net/story/374344)