trig42:

 

I sung the thread title to myself.

 

Now it is stuck in my head.

 

Some aversion therapy should sort that out:

tdgeek:

 

Im picking they found evidence of past life. Not a big deal IMO. Mars was very like Earth, liquid water, same elements, rotating iron core, volcanoes, and electricity from weather. It must have had life. Then the core stopped, it cooled, atmosphere blew away, radiation got in.

 

Interesting. Is that science or are you guessing?

Batman:

 

tdgeek:

 

Im picking they found evidence of past life. Not a big deal IMO. Mars was very like Earth, liquid water, same elements, rotating iron core, volcanoes, and electricity from weather. It must have had life. Then the core stopped, it cooled, atmosphere blew away, radiation got in.

 

 

Interesting. Is that science or are you guessing?

 

Science, watched a few docos on Mars

tdgeek:

 

Batman:

 

tdgeek:

 

Im picking they found evidence of past life. Not a big deal IMO. Mars was very like Earth, liquid water, same elements, rotating iron core, volcanoes, and electricity from weather. It must have had life. Then the core stopped, it cooled, atmosphere blew away, radiation got in.

 

 

Interesting. Is that science or are you guessing?

 

 

Science, watched a few docos on Mars

 

The Vogons did it

tdgeek:

 

Batman:

 

tdgeek:

 

Im picking they found evidence of past life. Not a big deal IMO. Mars was very like Earth, liquid water, same elements, rotating iron core, volcanoes, and electricity from weather. It must have had life. Then the core stopped, it cooled, atmosphere blew away, radiation got in.

 

 

Interesting. Is that science or are you guessing?

 

 

Science, watched a few docos on Mars

 

It was science fiction if it stated "It must have had life".

MikeB4:

 

tdgeek:

 

Batman:

 

tdgeek:

 

Im picking they found evidence of past life. Not a big deal IMO. Mars was very like Earth, liquid water, same elements, rotating iron core, volcanoes, and electricity from weather. It must have had life. Then the core stopped, it cooled, atmosphere blew away, radiation got in.

 

 

Interesting. Is that science or are you guessing?

 

 

Science, watched a few docos on Mars

 

 

 

 

The Vogons did it

 

Watch it, you might be asimmilated.

Fred99:

 

tdgeek:

 

Batman:

 

tdgeek:

 

Im picking they found evidence of past life. Not a big deal IMO. Mars was very like Earth, liquid water, same elements, rotating iron core, volcanoes, and electricity from weather. It must have had life. Then the core stopped, it cooled, atmosphere blew away, radiation got in.

 

 

Interesting. Is that science or are you guessing?

 

 

Science, watched a few docos on Mars

 

 

It was science fiction if it stated "It must have had life".

 

Possibly. But life isnt an accident. Its science and nature. A workmate gave me a book, where the odds of life were unbelievably astronomical, no pun intended. As in lining up so many ducks. IMHO life is not rare, its not lucky. If you have liquid water etc, and electricity it can be created. The ingredients exist throughout the universe. Not many are exo planets, nor may have a Great Bombardment to add water. But water is in fact common. One of there moons in the outer gas planets is a lot of ice, and has tectonic activity, so they predict it has water under the cap. That just this minor, and mini solar system

Fred99:

 

So if it was DNA based, and even if that DNA had shared sequences with life on earth, that doesn't "prove" it didn't evolve (more correctly abiogenesis didn't happen) independently.

 

It could be that for life to happen in what we call "goldilocks zones" - it most probably has to happen the same way it did here.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if DNA is a common solution that eventually evolves under suitable conditions to allow life - a sort of convergent evolution of the coding system.

That said ... DNA so far observed on earth has 4 base pairs (ATGC).  But scientist have created (in-vitro) DNA systems with more base pairs.  More base pairs means it's possible to produce more amino acids, which would then code for a wider range of possible proteins.

There is also the intriguing but unproven postulate of silicon based life, which could be quite different to carbon based life.  So different we might not recognise it as life and be misclassifying it as geology.

tdgeek:

 

Fred99:

 

tdgeek:

 

Batman:

 

tdgeek:

 

Im picking they found evidence of past life. Not a big deal IMO. Mars was very like Earth, liquid water, same elements, rotating iron core, volcanoes, and electricity from weather. It must have had life. Then the core stopped, it cooled, atmosphere blew away, radiation got in.

 

 

Interesting. Is that science or are you guessing?

 

 

Science, watched a few docos on Mars

 

 

It was science fiction if it stated "It must have had life".

 

 

Possibly. But life isnt an accident. Its science and nature. A workmate gave me a book, where the odds of life were unbelievably astronomical, no pun intended. As in lining up so many ducks. IMHO life is not rare, its not lucky. If you have liquid water etc, and electricity it can be created. The ingredients exist throughout the universe. Not many are exo planets, nor may have a Great Bombardment to add water. But water is in fact common. One of there moons in the outer gas planets is a lot of ice, and has tectonic activity, so they predict it has water under the cap. That just this minor, and mini solar system

 

Is that the Fine Tuned Universe 

trig42:

 

I sung the thread title to myself.

 

Now it is stuck in my head.

 

Particularly given the OP's name @DaveB

tdgeek:

 

Possibly. But life isnt an accident. Its science and nature. A workmate gave me a book, where the odds of life were unbelievably astronomical, no pun intended. As in lining up so many ducks. IMHO life is not rare, its not lucky. If you have liquid water etc, and electricity it can be created. The ingredients exist throughout the universe. Not many are exo planets, nor may have a Great Bombardment to add water. But water is in fact common. One of there moons in the outer gas planets is a lot of ice, and has tectonic activity, so they predict it has water under the cap. That just this minor, and mini solar system

 

That means there's either an alien computer simulation, or there is a something in the science and nature who wanted it to happen?

Yes. Which reminds me - I need to phone home.

Geektastic:

 

Yes. Which reminds me - I need to phone home.

 

I'll help you

Batman:

 

Geektastic:

 

Yes. Which reminds me - I need to phone home.

 

 

I'll help you

 

 

Thanks! Nice track. Better than the Martian Interplanetary Invasion Force hold music I had to listen to earlier..

Batman:

 

tdgeek:

 

Possibly. But life isnt an accident. Its science and nature. A workmate gave me a book, where the odds of life were unbelievably astronomical, no pun intended. As in lining up so many ducks. IMHO life is not rare, its not lucky. If you have liquid water etc, and electricity it can be created. The ingredients exist throughout the universe. Not many are exo planets, nor may have a Great Bombardment to add water. But water is in fact common. One of there moons in the outer gas planets is a lot of ice, and has tectonic activity, so they predict it has water under the cap. That just this minor, and mini solar system

 

 

That means there's either an alien computer simulation, or there is a something in the science and nature who wanted it to happen?

 

What is your point? You can either

A) Agree with me

B) Disagree and explain your fact/opinion/belief and why