Compiled information can be a revelation
in itself, looking at how, and why, it got that
way in the first place. In my opinion.
For example, I remember the conservative
illsutrations by mainstream media years ago
with regard to water on Mars. Ice there was,
but water? Maybe.
Now they know, those brilliant scientists
that had to see it to believe it. There is ice
on Mars. Maybe they'll see more.
"NASA's Phoenix Lander is approaching Mars
and preparing to touch down on May 25th. If
successful, the landing will kick off an unpre-
cedented 3-month investigation of the Red
Planet's arctic realm. Get the full story from
Science@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"
http://spaceweather.com/
[05/14/08]
If there be volcanic activity on a planet, or
a moon in the solar system, along with ice,
what happens when ice feels radiant heat?
School children could give us the answer.
Is there life on other planets? And evidence
to prove it? Hey! Well, that's been in the news
lately, hasn't it? Like, everybody knows about
this according to mainstream media. Just go
and ask anybody if there is evidence of life on
other planets. It's common knowledge right?
Well, not according to everybody. Certainly
not according to all the compiled information.
Gotta love that compiled history :)
Bacteria can live in super hot regions inside
a planet. Evidently, they can live in super cold
regions too. Consider the following:
"[....] ... Thanks to some brilliant detective work
by three New Zealanders published in 1998, we
can suddenly glimpse the possibility that the tree
of life, as it appears in virtually every textbook,
may be upside down. Those books assert that
the first creatures were like bacteria, simple cells
with single copies of circular chromosomes, and
that all other living things came about when teams
of bacteria ganged together to make complex
cells. It may much more plausibly be the exact
reverse. The very first modern organisms were
not like bacteria; they did not live in hot springs
or deep-sea volcanic vents. They were much
more like protozoa: with genomes fragmented
into several linear chromosomes rather than one
circular one, and 'polyploid' - that is, with several
spare copies of every gene to help with the corr-
ection of spelling errors. Moreover, they would
have liked cool climates. As Patrick Forterre
has long argued, it now looks as if bacteria
came later, highly specialised and simplified
descendants of the Lucas, long after the invention
of the DNA-protein world. Their trick was to drop
much of the equipment of the RNA world spec-
ifically to enable them to live in hot places. It is
we that have retained the primitive molecular
features of the Lucas in our cells; bacteria are
much more 'highly evolved' than we are. [....]"
[Based on: GENOME, The Aurobiography of a
Species in 23 chapters, by Matt Ridley (Copy-
right 1999), 2000 paperback edition, pp. 20-21]
Whether hot or cold, bacteria can live in so
many different places. Often with, or without
oxygen. I imagine they (and algae) can live in
water too.
Maybe not life on other planets is very much
the popular thing to admit nowadays, according
to mainstream media. Scientists might want to
endorse it, but science doesn't always get the
same respect as politicians, cor****ations, even
religions. Speaking of religions:
"Believing that the universe may contain alien
life does not contradict a faith in God, the
Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview
published Tuesday [05/13/08].
"The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director
of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying
the vastness of the universe means it is possible
there could be other forms of life outside Earth,
even intelligent ones."
[News Services article (VATICAN CITY / Alien
life, faith in God compatible, Jesuit says), p A5,
S.L.P.D., 05/14/08]
Is it just me, or is it taking a long time for the
major U.S. News media to accept they are not
the only intelligent life in the universe?
What happens if on Mars they find more than
just ice? I wonder if we'll get to hear about it? In
view of what the Jesuit astronomer said, maybe
it won't be long now. In the newspapers and on
CNN, that is.
Etznab
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