Re: Life on Mars ?

Rafe Zetter wrote:
>
> Blue wrote:
> > Why not. Do you know the planet never had life?
>
> Well if it did then it probably only lasted for about 400 million years
> at most.
> Life on earth has been around for about 4 Billion years
> Now considering that we will have used up all of Earths oil (99.99%
> anyway) within a 150 year period, then Mars will have at most enough oil
> to supply Earths needs (at current usage levels) for about a week.
> Hardly worth bothering with given the *Enormous* cost of extraction.

No no no. You can't simply equate the age of the earth
with plants that will produce your oil. The first land
plants Cooksonia and Sporogonites only arrived some 400
million years ago. No, I can't let your very poor knowledge of
evolution invade here. I'm dealing with facts, not fiction.

> > The desired affect is oxygen minus the toxic gases,
> > though I except that when oxygen appeared on earth
> > it was toxic to life forms at that time.
>
> Eh, Oxygen was/is produced by the plants and algea, it was never toxic
> to animals.

No, you see what you've done here son is confuse the
word 'life' as to meaning oxygen breathing animals.
You'll defiantly need some more biology lessons before you
can come back here and tell me about Anaerobic Extinction.

> > Pointless, as the first oxygen on earth went into the
> > earth and not the atmosphere. The first oxygen on
> > Mars would go into the soil.
>
> Doh, Thats where it is now, IN THE SOIL in the form of oxides eg Iron
> Oxide (Rust to you) which gives Mars its brownish/red colour.

Yes, just because you don't get your way there's no need
to be petulant. Oxygen just doesn't hang around in the
atmosphere because you want it to. You need an ozone layer.
It is the lack of an ozone layer Mars that keeps the
planet oxidized. And once you have your oxygen trapping
ozone you have to find a way of stopping your oxidizing
gas from reattaching itself to what ever you've detached
it from. If you have some special ability to keep metals
from 'Rusting', Oxidizing, then you should contact your
local patent office asap.
> >
> > Again, Oxygen will go everywhere before there's an
> > excess in the atmosphere.
>
> Oh dear , your just not getting this are you.

No, it is not 'your' son, it is 'you're' it is a contraction
of two words see, 'you are' . And no, it is you who is not,
'getting it'.

> The Oxygen on Mars is currenlty locked into the ground as oxides and
> some in the form of water ice, also a little already in the atmospher in
> the form CO2.

The Martian atmosphere is:
Carbon dioxide 95.32%
Nitrogen 2.7%
Argon 1.6%
Oxygen 0.13%
Water vapour 0.03
Neon 2.5 ppm
Xenon 0.08 ppm
Ozone 0.03 pmm

A little car problem eh ?

The problem here son is how you're going to breath all that CO2.

> Of course they/we don't know enough, thats why they are raising money
> and campaigning for more research and exploration you dimwit.

And I suggest you stop reading comics, stop being rude
to your betters. And in your case, to everyone you meet.
Your formulaic trolls have no place here.
.

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