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[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

My tinfoil hat theory that is all in jest is that Mars was "First Earth" and it got real fucked up and anything that was there got wiped out and what we see now is all that's left of it.

[-] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 38 points 16 hours ago

“A million to one.” They said…

[-] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 13 hours ago

But still they come

[-] nick@midwest.social 3 points 15 hours ago

I got this. Well done.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 16 hours ago

We've been there. For decades. You know that, right?

[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 27 points 17 hours ago
[-] davel@lemmy.ml 20 points 16 hours ago

What are the chances that this question came from Uranus?

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago

Said the astronomer from his observatory in Uruguay

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 14 hours ago

Lol .... a probe or sample device gets picked up on Mars, sent back to earth carrying an exotic extra terrestrial virus that is indestructible. It infects our planet killing every biological organism on earth.

The Martians end up invading and conquering us ..... just not in the way we imagined.

[-] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Had me thinking about the Species movie at the start of your comment

[-] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 11 hours ago

Nothing cool, of course.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago
[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 20 points 17 hours ago
[-] altasshet@lemmy.ca 15 points 16 hours ago
[-] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago
[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

Million in one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

That doesn't seem right but I don't know the math to dispute it...

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

A wise decision. There are extensive proofs written by Prof. Ridcully D.Thau., D.M., D.S., D. Mn., D.G., D.D., D.C.L., D.M. Phil., D.M.S., D.C.M., D.W., B.El.L. of UU.

[-] ryan213@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

So you're telling me there's a chance?! -LC

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 11 points 16 hours ago

Even if an ice asteroid crashed and vaporized some semblance of an atmosphere onto the planet the solar wind would strip it off because there’s no magnetic field.

It’s a dead rock. Better to look to Jupiter’s moons than Mars.

[-] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

A million to one of course.

edit: but still, they come!

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago

I'd put the chances of Mars sample return going off in the next couple decades at about 70%.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_sample-return_mission https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-sample-return

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago

What do you mean by "coming from?" We get scientific knowledge from it. If you mean something physical, we are planning to do a sample return mission by the end of the decade. For something not from us, we very very occasionally get done ejects from it. The chances of anything being alive are basically nil.

[-] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 6 points 16 hours ago

Apart from a slim opportunity of one of the robots we put up there coming back in the future it currently stands at 0% we would know by now if something other than robots was on mars

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

I'm pretty sure we have quite a few meteorites that came from Mars.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago
[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 4 points 17 hours ago
[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

As for Allen life coming under it's own power from Mars, I'd put that extremely close to zero. More likely would be something from Europa or outside the solar system, but that's still pretty unlikely.

[-] drascus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

I would say 0% to >0%

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