Re:Elon Musk argues that putting a million people on Mars en...
by ccallebs on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @12:04PM
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How sure are we that there's no petroleum on Mars? If Mars contained any sort of life at one point or another the likelihood of fossil fuels is there, correct?
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Re:Elon Musk argues that putting a million people on Mars en...
by gambiting on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @12:28PM
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This would be the biggest discovery of all time, if we actually discovered remains of life on another planet. At the moment and as far as we know, there is no life on Mars and there never has been. It would be fantastic to be proven otherwise, but we cannot rely on hopes of finding oil.
Re:Elon Musk argues that putting a million people on Mars en...
by jessaustin on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @12:22PM
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My understanding is that Mars at this time has much less sedimentation than Earth has. It may have had more in the past, but was there ever the volume of organic material that Earth has had in e.g. the Gulf of Mexico or the Tethys Sea?