Castle Paradox

[Bagne]

This is fantastic! NASA a few years back was measuring CH4 levels on mars and found them to be higher than expected (were we to account for all known martian atmospheric and geo-chemical processes).
For some reason, they didn't make a big deal out of it.

But this is the thing - when you're unable to account for an environment's chemistry with chemical and physical processes alone, you're left with the awesome possibility biological processes.

Research has since shortened the list of plausible explanations and martian life is still on there.
http://spacefellowship.com/2009/12/08/life-on-mars-theory-boosted-by-new-methane-study/

An analogy would be Earth's highly oxidized atmosphere - it's not stable, and would quickly become reduced were all photosynthesis to stop. Methane has a similarly short lifetime.
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[Spoon Weaver]

don't know why you're excited. The only thing saving us from the martian s come down here and harvesting all of our organs is are ignorance of there existence.
See, the martains hate it when people know about them, thats why when ever anyone see's them they shove things up there butt.
So, beware, if we find the life that's on mars, we're doomed. Also, don't tell the martains I know..... please.

[Bob the Hamster]

Martian bacteria of some kind are starting to look extremely plausible.

Sooner or later they are going to get the right robot in the right place and scoop one up and send back microscopy of it.

Then instead of arguing over whether or not life exists on mars, we can get on to the business of arguing whether life evolved separately on earth and mars, or evolved on one and spread to the other (and if so, which way first?)

Enceladus is the one I am really excited about. Someday we will drill into its ice, and I will be a bit astonished if it doesn't turn out to be chock full of ammonia-drinking mermaids. ;)

[Moogle1]

Martian bacteria sounds like our one-way ticket to the zombie apocalypse. I for one welcome our Martian overlords.
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