Azza said:http://www.smh.com.au/world/mars-find-boosts-prospects-for-life-20130313-2g0j9.html
Swinburne University astrophysicist Chris Fluke agrees. The clay material Curiosity has uncovered, he says, contains many of the basic chemical building blocks that are present in Earth-based life: including oxygen, nitrogen and carbon.
More importantly, the clay minerals below the surface have not been oxidised. "This means that simple microbes could, in principle, 'feed' off it," Associate Professor Fluke explains. "It is not evidence that Martian life-forms did exist in the past, but it's a positive sign that conditions earlier in Mars' history may have been suitable for simple microbial life to prosper."
His wisdom knows no bound.antman said:Great thread guys!
Going back to Deepak for a while - this is a genuine tweet from the guy.
"Time space and mass are born in a domain of awareness that is timeless spaceless & massless"
Cheers D-Man.
evo said:Whenever creationists get all fired up their most oft used retort is "yeh, well if evolution is true how come we don't see transistional species fossils?"
Surely something like this qualifies as a transistional species. It's obvious it was once a fish that swam upright and that it is gradually transitioning into some sort of sting ray thingy .
TigerForce said:Asteroid to miss the earth by 28,000km on Feb 16. Will pass west of WA. Shame we can't see it.
Geez....I still remember getting scared at 12 years of age with that Skylab fall. ;D
antman said:Deepak's wisdom comes from a place that is timeless, spaceless and brainless.
tigergollywog said:His wisdom comes from a US$billion dollar mansion in Palm Springs from the proceeds of all the dumb bastards who bought Chicken Soup for the Soul (did he write that one?, oh well, its an emblematic title that gets my point across). I was thinking about writing a sequel titled 'New Age esoteric *smile* for when youve got influenza"
tigergollywog said:His wisdom comes from a US$billion dollar mansion in Palm Springs from the proceeds of all the dumb bastards who bought Chicken Soup for the Soul (did he write that one?, oh well, its an emblematic title that gets my point across). I was thinking about writing a sequel titled 'New Age esoteric *smile* for when youve got influenza"
Panthera tigris FC said:That is an interesting question.
One hypothesis is about the value of grandmothers in rearing their grandchildren.
KnightersRevenge said:Is Grant Thomas now just a Deepak Chopra tweetbot? You be the judge...
"@Thomo_Grant: Football is not about football. Coaching is not about coaching. Too simplistic, archaic to think they are. It's more sophisticated than that"
KnightersRevenge said:Is Grant Thomas now just a Deepak Chopra tweetbot? You be the judge...
"@Thomo_Grant: Football is not about football. Coaching is not about coaching. Too simplistic, archaic to think they are. It's more sophisticated than that"
evo said:the more pressing question is why are you reading Cornflakes' tweets?
IanG said:Cause he's the only one connected to footy who tells it like it is.
IanG said:Cause he's the only one connected to footy who tells it like it is.
He loves to give it to Geish and Demetriou and that usually makes me smile.evo said:the more pressing question is why are you reading Cornflakes' tweets?
KnightersRevenge said:He loves to give it to Geish and Demetriou and that usually makes me smile.