Comments on: Mars’ wet streaks might not be wet https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/mars-wet-streaks-might-not-be-wet/ Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:07:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Localfluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/mars-wet-streaks-might-not-be-wet/#comment-922029 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:07:16 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41120#comment-922029 If even the Recurring Slope Lineae are dry and dead, maybe there will be a last propaganda rush to Europa, the icy moons? Lots of water to follow there, to discover the playful dolphins which are of course swimming inside of it. Bad news for astrobiologists. It’s much safer for the career to study stuff that really exist. Nah, I don’t want to be evil on them. They are doing a great job trying to find out what might be habitable. But they are much more biology than astro.

The only real overarching theory in biology is evolution, and that is kind of a truism. Lots of great theories about genetics, connectomics and even stranger stuff. But no big theory like the lambda-CDM model of the universe, its structure and origin.

But it’s good news for human space flight! Now the “planetary protection” mafia lost their argument against landing humans on Mars! And sample return and whatever other science progress the haters want to stop. Mars is dead, but we will bring it alive. We must do it now while we can.

]]> By: sayoamra https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/mars-wet-streaks-might-not-be-wet/#comment-922021 Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:39:17 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=41120#comment-922021 All this goes to the fact alien worlds are hard to study from millions of miles away. But it also shows NASA all the quick to go with a big publicity stunt. The whole water on Mars event screamed bad idea but NASA did it anyways. It very in line with the Obama way of thinking, win the new cycle people generally remember the first story they hear not the correction 3 days later or months later in this case.

This whole publicity before science is one of the many reason NASA is where it is today a failing government agency that seems to have its best years behind it.

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