True and real science is to (a) admit what is unknown and (b) have the BALLS to accept when theories and hypotheses happen to be wrong. The only way to learn NEW things, is to be open to the NEW,
even when it disagrees with the current theories.
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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
These same samples detected water molecules bound to the dust, which was only scooped.from a shallow-depth, and more excitingly, the perchlorates detected can not only be converted to rocket fuel, but microbes on earth have been found that use it as their primary oxidizing agent of metabolism.
I think it's silly, and somewhat a sign of the hostile-to-science atmosphere that you espouse, to assume that carbon readings surely couldn't have been native to Mars, as they are found almost everywhere, including cometary bodies.
Did you see they found water-ice lurking at the bottom of craters on Mercury?
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
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I think it is petty and bullshit and what is worse, *yawn*
predictably boring for you to keep the
false narrative running that I am anti-science. If anything, my skepticism on this issue is MORE science based than y'all not-based-on-fact-but-on-hypothesis pep rally
I am not anti-science, I am just trying to be clear on the limits of our current understandings about the Multiverse, including our nearest neighbors. Further, that article is just a recent update to the discussion, not some kind of dagger to the premise. If y'all dig deeper maybe y'all will find something, but at the moment, there is the same nothing we started with in the first place, lets just be clear about that. Kicking the FACTS is science, kicking the theories is science fiction, and there is a world of difference. Jules Verne was indeed a prophetic visionary, but lets be frank, you can't count all the chickens just before they hatch, and a bird in the basket is indeed better than three in the bush like my Southern grandparents always taught me