Life On Mars Found (Dead, On Earth) Etc. (Score 1)

OrangeSquid wrote:
>what happens if the microbes evolve into something that may be harmful?

I worry about stuff like this every time somebody decides to take a core sample from an ancient, far-underground arctic lake, or what have you. Who frigging knows what might pop up once the stuff thaws?

Years ago, I sat in on a conference about the possibilities of terraforming Mars. By bizarre coincidence, guess who happened to be a major presenter on the topic of creating an atmosphere there? Bernie Goetz, who earlier had unfortunately decided to ride the New York subway system (think hard) and wound up a household word.

Go figure.

And on the topic of whether there's already life on the red planet (horrible movie), it just seemed way too weird when NASA held that press conference awhile back. They announced in essence, that they'd finally pretty much established that there was life on Mars. Except that it was long dead, on Earth.