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shrimp_fried_rice

 Guys they discovered nearly concrete evidence of life on mars btw Im SO overstimulated
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Anonymous 1w

Just looked it up The actual scientists said “potential biosignture, but we have seen things like this in the past”. There seems to be a push to get a rock to earth for better study, which makes me wonder if this is also a hype push for funding

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Anonymous 1w

Like martians??!???

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Anonymous 1w

Don’t care, didn’t you hear, that news cycle is scheduled for 9 hours later Get a load of this loser continuing to read other sources and not getting sucked into it Everyone point and laugh 🫵🫵🫵🫵🫵

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Anonymous 1w

Hate to disappoint, but it’s not “concrete” at least, not yet.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

They found rocks with patches in them that have a similar structure to living beings and a high probability of biological origins. So like, bacterial colonies if anything

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

Interesting! I watched a clip of the press conference and missed them saying they’ve seen things like this before. Perhaps the push to send it to earth could mean something? I hope they get their hands on the rock so they can determine if it’s of biological origin

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Anonymous replying to -> shrimp_fried_rice 1w

It’s probably not tbh, but I do think they should get a rock either way

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

It was a potential bio signature but that probability of that potential is higher than that of an abiotic answer. While we have seen potential bio signatures before in the past, this is the strongest piece of concrete evidence making it a unique opportunity to study

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

I may have seen something on this but idk if it’s the same. It was found in a an old river bed right? And wasn’t in the conditions for it to happen naturally WITHOUT life being present, correct?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

But again idk cause I feel like this isn’t the first time I’ve heard something like this

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 1w

No,that’s the thing. The bio signature found is ONLY present (to our knowledge) upon a micro-organism decaying / decomposing. This also massively changes our understanding of the scale and duration of life’s existence on Earth as well. Super super exciting finds all around since what are the odds that life develops twice in our solar system alone??? Maybe our universe is teeming with it!

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1w

The article I read indicated it can happen at high temps abiotically

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09413-0 In this they say “Geological context and petrography indicate that these reactions occurred at low temperatures.”

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

They can’t confirm it until it’s back on earth for examination under a microscope (pushed back to the 2040s). However, although it’s possible for there to be other natural possibilities, the main way we know these “leopard rocks” to form here on Earth is through fossilized bacteria

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