Originally published April 22 2004
NASA scientist wants you to believe that a planet with vast oceans, an
atmosphere and abundant sunlight was dead and sterile
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Thanks to evidence recorded by the Mars rover, scientists are now
certain that the planet once harbored vast oceans of liquid water. As
the principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover mission, Steve
Squyres, explains, "...the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water."
Yet that's only where the fun begins. Astonishingly, the same director
goes on to say something that sounds more like a politically correct
stance than good science. He says, "... for some period of time, [Mars]
was suitable for life. That doesn't mean that life was there." Huh?
If there's one thing any respectable scientist should know by now, it's
that life is everywhere that's "suitable for life." In other
words, if there's an environment that favors life, with oceans of water,
natural sunlight, and an atmosphere, you can count on it haboring life.
After all, how do you think life came to Earth? It wasn't God waving
some magic wand: early life came to Earth from comets and meteors -- the
same heavenly bodies that no doubt introduced Mars to simple-celled
organisms, too.
When it comes to talking about life on Mars, the
attitude of both Squyres and NASA is the same: deny it! Announcing the
discovery of life on Mars -- even life that has long since been
extinguished -- is just too much for the American public to stomach, it
seems. And that's precisely why you see people like Squyres actually
going out of their way to caution the public with ridiculous sounding
statements about life not being on Mars.
Frankly, from a
scientific perspective, it would have taken an act of God for life to
have somehow avoided Mars. What NASA wants you to believe is that Mars
is a completely sterile environment: not a single organism anywhere.
Cleaner than a CPU manufacturing clean room. Cleaner than a class IV
biological lab. Not a single microbe on the entire planet. Really.
That's what they're saying. And every time they say it, I can't stop
laughing. How could a bunch of people with such sophisticated degrees in
mathematics and life sciences be such morons? Truth is, they aren't: the
folks inside NASA already know there's life on Mars. This "no life"
position is just a public relations philosophy.
NASA scientists said yesterday that the robot explorer Opportunity has
discovered evidence that liquid water once soaked part of Mars for some
period of time, increasing the possibility that the planet might once
have supported life as it is known on Earth.
For several days late last month Opportunity probed, drilled and
analyzed a stone outcrop in Mars's Meridiani Planum, finding geological
features and mineralogical characteristics that are common on Earth in
rock that has either been leached by groundwater or formed from sediment
laid down in a lake or pond.
"The puzzle pieces have been falling into place, and the last puzzle
piece fell into place a few days ago," said Cornell University
astronomer Steve Squyres, principal investigator of the Mars Exploration
Rover mission.
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