https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9546225/Scientists-claim-evidence-FUNGI-Red-Planet.html

The photos are interesting, and who knows, maybe it's "the proof" we've
been looking for?


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Big Bad Bob wrote:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9546225/Scientists-claim- evidence-FUNGI-Red-Planet.html

The photos are interesting, and who knows, maybe it's "the proof" we've
been looking for?

On the one hand... maybe.

On the other hand, isn't it likely that microbes from earth hitchhiked on the lander? I'm pretty sure it's impossible to 100% sterilize it, no matter what extremes they go to. We've been sending things to Mars since the mid-70's; there's a non-zero chance that any life easily recognized as such is just
going to be something from here.

Also: I would think that something that evolved on a different planet would
be, y'know, *different*. Not necessarily something recognizable as a fungus,
or a plant or an animal or whatever. Just because we're next-door neighbors,
so to speak, doesn't necessarily mean we'll have any similarities.

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On 2021-05-07 12:25, Auric__ wrote:

Big Bad Bob wrote:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9546225/Scientists-claim-
evidence-FUNGI-Red-Planet.html

On the other hand, isn't it likely that microbes from earth hitchhiked on the lander?

sure - always a possibility. May have also hitchhiked through space, on
a meteorite, from anything sent towards Mars (or through its orbital
path) that did not even land, etc..

Also: I would think that something that evolved on a different planet would be, y'know, *different*.

a lot of debate on that. If evolution finds the best "pattern" for
successful life, and this pattern works on Mars, maybe looking similar
to what's on Earth isn't so unlikely. A 'math formula' except it's biology.

OR... life actually originated on MARS, but when it lost its atmosphere,
nearly all of it died off... and it migrated to Earth through meteorites
that came to Earth [which we have found, according to scientists].

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