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Ptah

(33,907 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 06:17 PM Yesterday

Has NASA Found 3 Billion Year Old Dead Martians? Why A Green Crystal Could Be A Biosignature! Scott Manley

Scott Manley is one of my favorite science presenters
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New research based upon measurements of microscopic spots in rocks on Mars has discovered minerals associated with biological processes on earth, and after months of trying to find an alternate explanation and failed they've concluded this could be the best evidence for martian life so far.
We could verify this in days..... if we could get the sample back to Earth.


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Has NASA Found 3 Billion Year Old Dead Martians? Why A Green Crystal Could Be A Biosignature! Scott Manley (Original Post) Ptah Yesterday OP
No they didn't Nigrum Cattus Yesterday #1
I've got nothing against robotic space exploration. hunter 20 hrs ago #3
I can see his outline in the video! Wonder Why Yesterday #2

hunter

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3. I've got nothing against robotic space exploration.
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 12:21 AM
20 hrs ago

Humanity can easily afford that. It's not money wasted.

I highly doubt ordinary humans will ever have a significant presence in space. We're just too damned fragile. Keeping humans alive in space is horrendously costly in terms of resources and money.

A few more humans might visit the moon and with any luck return safely. But I think that will be the end of manned space exploration for a long time, maybe forever if our current world civilization collapses.

As a society we could have safe comfortable housing, healthy food, clean water, and appropriate medical care for everyone, right alongside large investments in scientific research if certain political and religious ideologies weren't continuously dragging us down.

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