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[-] Krejall@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 day ago

I mean, anything? That's got to be close enough to 100% to make no difference. Rocks in space hit planets, pieces break off at escape velocity, they become the space rocks that hit other planets. I doubt there's a solid body in the inner solar system that doesn't have at least a little bit of Mars on it.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 64 points 3 days ago

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

[-] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 50 points 3 days ago

“A million to one.” They said…

[-] Goodman@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 days ago

But still they come

[-] nick@midwest.social 5 points 3 days ago
[-] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

Can you explain it please?

[-] nick@midwest.social 1 points 15 hours ago

It’s from the war of the worlds musical, references elsewhere in this thread.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 days ago

What are the chances that this question came from Uranus?

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Said the astronomer from his observatory in Uruguay

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago
[-] altasshet@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago
[-] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago
[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

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

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

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

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days ago

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

[-] Vitaly@feddit.uk 27 points 3 days ago
[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days 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 2 points 2 days ago

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

[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days 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.

[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days 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.

[-] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

A million to one of course.

edit: but still, they come!

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days 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

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago
[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 5 points 3 days ago

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

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

Nothing cool, of course.

[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 4 points 3 days ago
[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

I would say 0% to >0%

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