Life in space!

by Spree • 20 May 2008, 18:25 • Journals
They hasn't found it yet!

But I was thinking, why don't they take a random planet (mars for example), and artificially inject bacterial and other microscopical life in there, and see how it develops?

Mailed the same question/idea to NASA yesterday. Although I'm quite sure they've already thought about that idea and rejected it because of several reasons, it's still an interesting idea imo :) Also, when I look it up at google, I can't find one single hit about this subject/idea anywhere ^^

image: apocalypse
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Rhand 20 May 2008, 19:26
No oxygen, how bout that?
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bronze 20 May 2008, 19:28
oxygen is overrated
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Rhand 20 May 2008, 19:28
THEN STOP USING IT
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bronze 20 May 2008, 19:29
I already did that...10 years ago. It's awesome!
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evan 20 May 2008, 19:51
I LOLD HARD, EPIC REPLY! ^^
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Spree 20 May 2008, 19:28
Afaik bacteria don't need oxigen, they are well known for their ability to adjust to their habit. Also, mars has a certain atmosphere. Though not containing oxigen I think, it's still a potential habit for microscopical life to adjust to, and maybe even evolve to something bigger (although we probably won't witness that, because it'd take millions of years).
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IMNOTKAZE 20 May 2008, 19:56
wtf are we going to do there

earth gravity = 9,80 Newton.

If im right , mars is like 6x more. How do you wanna live there :/?
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krgg 20 May 2008, 20:13
Ever watch Dragon Ball Z?
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Superboyy 20 May 2008, 20:17
earth = 9.8 m/s2
mars = 3.7 m/s2
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IMNOTKAZE 20 May 2008, 20:28
hm , u r sure ? maybe i miss understood and im talking about venus i think :c my bad then ;s
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Superboyy 20 May 2008, 20:35
venus = 8.9 m/s2
jupiter = 24.8 m/s2
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IMNOTKAZE 20 May 2008, 21:45
ok i failed somewhere :D
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rahula 20 May 2008, 19:29
Why not just put the population of China there and see if communism saves them?!
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Lest 20 May 2008, 19:44
:XDDDDDDDDDDdddd
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HellHammer 20 May 2008, 20:16
i expected some epic lulz @ this journal but this was TEH SHIT :D
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Viax 20 May 2008, 21:12
send all religous people to find out who's right and gets saved by their god
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Nizou 21 May 2008, 08:14
And what's your definition of saved?
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loazis 20 May 2008, 19:29
haha you emailed NASA , you're gonna get Nobelprize for this !
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finkregh 20 May 2008, 19:29
Nice mailing to NASA, they delete it anyways.

But the idea is nice imo
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Spree 20 May 2008, 19:30
No, they don't, it's just a contact-emailadress you can get at the website. They even created a whole form for it, and they answer every single serious e-mail. It takes up to 15 days to get response, but I will get a response, that's for sure :)
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WiEbJuH 20 May 2008, 19:35
post on cf if you have a response back :)
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Spree 20 May 2008, 19:38
If I don't forget to, I will ^^
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finkregh 20 May 2008, 19:41
ye post the reply if u receive something :)
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moldu 20 May 2008, 19:35
damn your stupid
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OfficerCohen 20 May 2008, 19:36
well tbh they did find life on space...well they found it statistically ^_^
there are 10,000 world's with living creatures (again statistically)
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Spree 20 May 2008, 19:38
Maybe they statistically found it, but not physically, which is what they need. This experiment can teach them a lot about how extraterrestial life would behave in an alien environment. That way they can limit the area they search in for life, and increase the actual chance of finding life in space :)
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.X.!__ 20 May 2008, 19:48
they did found life on mars and it was indeed microscopical

http://www.marsnews.com/focus/life

it is a fact that there was water on mars, and my professor geology says it is almost 99 % sure, that if there is water , there will be some kind of microscopical life
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adze 20 May 2008, 19:48
XD mate you must be clever
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Lukey 20 May 2008, 19:50
What did you write in this mail?

'Hi. I have an idea: (...). Btw. can I get some free gadgets, like spacesuits or satellites?'

Anyways, universe is fun! And they won't respond for sure but the idea itself is nice >P.
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Spree 20 May 2008, 20:21
Quote by spreeit's just a contact-emailadress you can get at the website. They even created a whole form for it, and they answer every single serious e-mail. It takes up to 15 days to get response, but I will get a response, that's for sure :)
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fuxor 20 May 2008, 19:52
like they didnt check it already, plz they are one of the most intelligent group of people in the world...
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OVER9000BPM 20 May 2008, 19:52
Quote by spreeAlso, when I look it up at google, I can't find one single hit about this subject/idea anywhere ^^

cause its simply retarded
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DiniMere 20 May 2008, 19:54
The mars is simply too little (1/10 earth mass) to hold an atmosphere.
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perforator 20 May 2008, 19:55
Impossible I think..

Bacteria from our planet are used to our environment, the pH of our soil, the organisms on our soil. It is true that not every bacteria needs oxygen (aerobic/anaerobic bacteria), however (and these are of course not the only reasons):

- when the bacterium is faced with ideal circumstances, it could divide every 20 minutes. Anyway this depends on the kind of bacterium.
- When the bacterium ISN'T faced with ideal circumstances, such as other atmosphere, other soil pH, other organisms, whatever: some bacteria are able to create endospores (search it up on wikipedia) however when the situation will not ever change into an ideal one, I don't think it will divide itself in 2 bacteria.

I'm not sure though, not an expert on bacteria
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finkregh 20 May 2008, 21:04
+ it would last ages until you can notice some kind of new established enviroment :\
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perforator 20 May 2008, 20:05
where do you get that 10% from

and I do follow biology in school, actually i'm gonna study it in university just never really got that in-depth information about bacteria
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Deactivated5220 20 May 2008, 20:11
Your idea to look smart on crossfire has






FAILED
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Boefje 20 May 2008, 20:13
What do you mean with no life in space? Look into the mirror. :-o
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OfficerCohen 20 May 2008, 20:14
also mars gravity is much stronger then Earth, so if you go there its not like dragon ball Z where you become stronger cuz everything is hard to do, your heart and other orgins? like liver and stuff will weight more and the shild that support them, isnt build for heavy mass, so you will die ='(
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perforator 20 May 2008, 20:16
dragon ball Z theory is indeed bullshit :D
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krgg 20 May 2008, 20:17
Lies tbh, I've been training under 20x Earths Gravity in my special space ship!
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OfficerCohen 20 May 2008, 20:18
well thats only cuz you had those megic beans xDDD
and im not talking about Fasolka :O)
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krgg 20 May 2008, 20:19
Yeah dude, starting from $3.99 you can also have some sensu beans. http://www.sensubeans.com/
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Superboyy 20 May 2008, 20:20
mars cant have greater gravity than earth when it only weighs about 0.1 of what earth does :s
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OfficerCohen 20 May 2008, 20:23
i saw comments about mars gravity is bigger so i said what i said
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DiniMere 20 May 2008, 20:21
get your facts straight...
the surface gravity on mars is about 38% of the surface gravity on earth.
edit: too slow =(
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OfficerCohen 20 May 2008, 20:25
i saw comments about mars gravity is bigger so i said what i said
beside i dont rly care about other planets then Earth :O)
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Pigscanfly 20 May 2008, 20:16
Let all the hungry people eat all the sick people. Then there are no more hungry or sick people. All the ex-hungry people who are getting sick by then, should be send to mars.
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Mayzzee 20 May 2008, 20:20
wp einstein
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dunno 20 May 2008, 20:33
Man, what a great idea. You are fucking genius.
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sHiZo 20 May 2008, 20:55
You got that Idea from the Movie 'Red Planet' ?

image: redplanet1

They are doing the same in there, nice movie tho! :d
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bELUJE 20 May 2008, 20:56
seems like thinking hurts

they are there already anywayz

image: MarsAttacks2
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sol 20 May 2008, 20:56
lol
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Spree 20 May 2008, 21:06
Ok, since it's you I'd still like to reply (although I ignore all the other cunts in here just doing craptalk). Don't you think would actually be a good scientifical experiment? I mean, ofcourse you can speculate about how bacterial life would behave over there, but it can never hurt to actually do the experiment :>
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sol 20 May 2008, 21:13
It's much like saying 'Why not put a human on mars and see what happens?'. Bacteria being small doesn't mean that they're any more adept at surviving in a completely alien environment than humans are (or anything else for that matter). Species evolve to better cope with the environment they're in and evolution occurs gradually over millions of years, you can't just dump bacteria into an environment it's not used to and expect it to live.
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Spree 20 May 2008, 21:26
Actually I once read about the fact that there are a dozen of bacteria who adjust to the most extreme conditions (they are even believed to live in lava / magma I thought). Those look like good candidates, don't they?
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sol 20 May 2008, 21:42
How are they good candidates? They have evolved over millions of years to be able to live in a specific environment (if i'm not mistaken their dependency is on sulphur instead of oxygen), but that doesn't mean that they're capable of instantaneously surviving in an environment completely different to that. What you're saying is akin to suggesting that, say, the fish at the bottom of the ocean which have evolved to a point where their eyes no longer function (due to there being no light) would be adept at surviving at the top of the ocean because they have the trait of being able to live under water, or something like that.
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Spree 20 May 2008, 22:36
Yes, could be, that's what you assume, but doesn't it often happen in science that something happens they did not assume? The project wouldn't really cost them relatively much money, since they can combine it with any random operation. Only the preparation takes money, that's why I say relatively ^^
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sol 20 May 2008, 21:19
Off-topic put you have a striking resemblance to Fabio in your profile pic:

image: fabio
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godez 20 May 2008, 21:00
HAHAHAHAHAHA
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godez 20 May 2008, 21:02
ja of niet
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sol 20 May 2008, 21:03
Uhm off-topic pics aren't allowed here, consider this a warning!
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Viax 20 May 2008, 21:07
you'd need bacterial life that can survive without oxygen, or do you want to create an artificial ozonlayer too?

and as far as i know bacterial life that suvives without oxygen has remained rather...unevolved the past billion years, i don't see what a few years on mars would change.
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