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   oh. just water

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 2nd, 2004 @ 12:48pm

   
   

   With all the excitement of the upcoming NASA announcement, I found this kinda anti-climactic. I don't think that I was expecting to see a picture of an alien waving to the camera, but the build up did get me hoping that they were going to anounce finding at least some microbe. oh well.

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   Re: oh. just water

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Mar 2nd, 2004 @ 1:11pm

   
   

   {conspiracy_hat_on}But if NASA comes out and says "there's life on that there planet!" then all the religious people in the world might freak out that it's not mentioned in the bible, thus the bible is incorrect/invalid, thus there is no reason to be 'good', thus mass panedomium breaks out in the streets resulting in huge riots and the end of western civilization as we know it, so instead... we get exciting stories about unique crystals that could only be a result of water on Mars and couldn't possibly have come from a meteorite or any icy comet impact a bazillion years ago.{/conspiracy_hat_on}

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   Re: oh. just water

   

   Tony Lawrence, Mar 2nd, 2004 @ 2:12pm

   
   

   Never fear, religion will adjust. They've adjusted to every other piece of science that threatens them. No matter what happens, they'll fit it in somehow.. and keep on believing.
   

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   Re: oh. just water

   

   Cyke, Mar 2nd, 2004 @ 3:47pm

   
   

   It says in the Bible that there is no life on other planets? Hmmm must have missed that part.

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   Liquishit Heights

   

   dorpus, Mar 2nd, 2004 @ 4:39pm

   
   

   Up to a third of life on Earth consists of bacteria on the sea floor that either produce or eat methane, and emit powerful sulfide fumes that smell like liquishit.
   
   In the current issue of Discover magazine, a new theory is put forth for mass extinctions on Earth: when undersea landslides happen (a completely random event), great geysers of liquishit erupt from the ocean, the ocean turns into a sea of flames, and a chain reaction occurs.
   
   So yeah, maybe Mars will be a stinky place when astronauts get there.
   
   
   

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   No life??

   

   thecaptain, Mar 2nd, 2004 @ 8:43pm

   
   

   We didn't find life on Mars?
   
   Well we've just gotta keep looking...after all, dorpus must come from SOMEwhere ;)

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   Re: oh. just water

   

   Tony Lawrence, Mar 3rd, 2004 @ 3:22am

   
   

   see?
   
   :-)
   

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   Re: oh. just water

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Mar 3rd, 2004 @ 8:18am

   
   

   Cyke,
   
   No, it does not say anywhere in the Bible that there is no life on other planets. However...
   
   If you read the Bible from the self-centric point of view that most people who "study" the Bible use, then you'll see that God created all life on Earth and didn't bother to do anything with the other planets, other than to provide them for use as signs (Genesis 1:14), but then later goes back and bans the use of Astrology (Isaiah 47:13-14), so now noone is sure what exactly the planets are for...
   
   Anyway, as I said earlier, most people who "study" the Bible feel that anything that's not in the bible doesn't exist (i.e., evolution is a lie, the dinosaurs never really existed, etc.) and since there is no mention of God creating life on other planets, there can be no life on other planets in the minds of many "biblical scholars".

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