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Originally Posted by Kilo

so bounce, wat ur saying is that it is likely that there is life on mars? even if it is bacteria. Im not very good with space issues, but didn't like a meteor collide with Mars at one point in its history...so wouldn't that of basically ended all life on the planet? Forgive me if im wrong, im very dense in this field of astronomy (if thats wat it is even called).

If there is water there is life, that does not imply life in the form as you and I have come to know it. It could be simply bio precursors, basic building blocks of organic life. In our quest to find extra terristrial life, we rule out specific forms based on the pressence of substances in a known region. For instance, a planet known to have an accumulation of carbon based material, such as earth, would suggest any form of life would be of the carbon based variety. To narrow down our search in such a vast back drop of space, we learn about the eviorment and determine exactly what type of life if any would thrive in such conditions. Carbon based creatures exchange Oxygen for Carbon dioxide, so our atmosphere must have an abundance of this waste material. We can then research the material known on a planet and look for signature traces of it's waste type. This can be done by studing the isotopes found housed in mineral sediments, rock formations, the atomosphere and many other sources. Martian Chronicles (ray bradburry)depicts this well, as the martians are silicon based creatures, which means any waste would be a cyrstalized form of silcon. In the novel the martians expelled clumps of crystal strucutres. Even in a ficticious tale, the mechanics of science is applied. So for the planets we do know much about, we use the information to look for the most realistic means of life, without being blinded by the assumption only carbon based life can exist. In the vast sea's believed to exist under the frozen gas layer of Jupites moon's Io and Europa, Astrobiology experts expect possible life to be that of great sea monsters. Some form of creature that thrives in the icy waters below the frozen crust, brilliant in color and form. Unseen like no other form of life, a luminous type creature similar in many means to that of the deep sea creatures dwelling in the merkeist deepest sea's known on earth... Just an educated guess based on the information/data gathered on Jupiters most interesting sattilites...

Just amazing...