Life ! L.i.f.e ! LIFE !

[Green Baron]

I knew it !

In the Atacama desert.

Nasa found out.

Just add water, stirr a bit, et voila ...

Not a joke this time :-)

 

[p1t1o]

We finally found life on another planet! What a time to be alive!

[Slam_Jones]

Well, I mean, it wasn't long ago (a year and a half ago or so) that this happened in the Atacama Desert:

So I'm not too surprised about it.

Article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151103-atacama-desert-flower-bloom-el-nino/

[Steel]

Can I also just point out that the article never mentioned that they found anything in the Atacama, just that they plan to test this technique there.

[Green Baron]

Beautiful. I've seen similar things in the Rub al Khali.

I clickbated this. It's about testing equipment for finding life on mars. The BIG problem is that life in the Atacama has a direct connection to the adjacent wolrd by wind and rare precipitation and is shelterd by a dense atmosphere and magnetic field.

I highly doubt that the techniques that work there will work on mars, where is only a veryveryvery thin atmosphere and where it probably hasn't rained for billions of years and no rich life dozens of kilometers away.

Edit: @Steel has noticed first !

 

Edited April 21, 2017 by Green Baron

[kerbiloid]

Atacama is desert?

Mars is desert!

[Green Baron]

You mean like "That's not a knife ?" *drawsshortsword* "That's is a knife."

 

[Gaarst]

OMG they found life on Earth! On a place slightly drier than average!

Remove 99% of the atmosphere (air, radiation protection...), the few droplets of water still hanging around, and about 100K and we almost have Mars! Better start packing our stuff for Mars right now!

Edited April 21, 2017 by Gaarst

[Urses]

19 minutes ago, Green Baron said:

You mean like "That's not a knife ?" *drawsshortsword* "That's is a knife."

 

Nope it is a toothpick (for a troll) but a toothpick

Urses

I think NASA need some budget upgrades again....

Edited April 21, 2017 by Urses

[KSK]

1 hour ago, Slam_Jones said:

Well, I mean, it wasn't long ago (a year and a half ago or so) that this happened in the Atacama Desert:

So I'm not too surprised about it.

Article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151103-atacama-desert-flower-bloom-el-nino/

Here be mindworms?

[kerbiloid]

Here be sandworms. Duna...