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Agreed. Little brothers are annoying shit heads who never take your advice and cry over small jokes.

Damn this discussion is hitting me.

You're right though, but Im not always like that.

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Damn this discussion is hitting me.

You're right though, but Im not always like that.

Your not my brother.

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Your not my brother.

But I have an older sister which makes me a younger brother

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you say that as if we haven't found them already and that we have any idea how to reach anything beyond of our solar system

Im implying that what you are saying is what we should be focusing on.

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Im implying that what you are saying is what we should be focusing on.

to do so would require either traveling at faster than light speeds or keeps humans in space for several dozens of generations, neither of which are things that have any sort of feasibility given the current scientific knowledge of the human race

so much so that settling on mars would be much easier by several factors of 10

Worst case scenario, the earth is hit with an errant gamma ray burst from a black hole and all life is wiped out a matter of seconds.
Personally, I think we should stop worrying about problems we caused ourselves and make space colonization a priority because as of now, all we have is Earth, and mass extinctions are uncomfortably common throughout Earth's History.

For all intents and purposes, Earth is just a giant spaceship powered by the sun and its own mass, a self-sustaining space colony shouldn't be too hard.
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Well shit. Now we're gonna spend 2 decades trying to figure out if there is or was ever life there

I thought life was already found?

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to do so would require either traveling at faster than light speeds or keeps humans in space for several dozens of generations, neither of which are things that have any sort of feasibility given the current scientific knowledge of the human race

so much so that settling on mars would be much easier by several factors of 10

Keyword: Current. Instead of wasting time overanalyzing ever scrap of whether or not there was life in the first place, why not focus on advancement of terraforming methods and have a living example in a few hundred years?

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Worst case scenario, the earth is hit with an errant gamma ray burst from a black hole and all life is wiped out a matter of seconds.
Personally, I think we should stop worrying about problems we caused ourselves and make space colonization a priority because as of now, all we have is Earth, and mass extinctions are uncomfortably common throughout Earth's History.

If a gamma ray burst is a threat to us within our atmosphere and magnetic field you can be damn sure colonizing space won't save you...

High powered gamma ray bursts from Black Holes can tear through stars. Granted radiation is worse in space and as soon as we leave the bowshock there is a flood of background radiation.
If we colonize enough of space at least we won't all be wiped out in one go hopefully.

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I thought life was already found?

Beyond microscopic organisms I mean

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High powered gamma ray bursts from Black Holes can tear through stars. Granted radiation is worse in space and as soon as we leave the bowshock there is a flood of background radiation.
If we colonize enough of space at least we won't all be wiped out in one go hopefully.

But we only have a limited supply of survival and Bear Grylls, where are we supposed to find food if we colonized a planet after the earth has been destroyed?

A Gamma star is worse though.

Guitarri, cannibalism. Seriously, though, if there's life on Mars then, we're cool, we might have food. Also, where is the line an animal that should and one that shouldn't be eaten? People will have a hard time deciding what to eat on Mars probably, especially if any life there looks even vaguely humanoid. Maybe not, though, look at the colonization of North America; actually, never mind, the Natives had to save the colonists' sorry little anuses.

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Guitarri, cannibalism. Seriously, though, if there's life on Mars then, we're cool, we might have food. Also, where is the line an animal that should and one that shouldn't be eaten? People will have a hard time deciding what to eat on Mars probably, especially if any life there looks even vaguely humanoid. Maybe not, though, look at the colonization of North America; actually, never mind, the Natives had to save the colonists' sorry little anuses.

Scientists have pretty much abandoned the hope for life on Mars, they are rather searching for signs that suggest there once was life, or whether it was once suitable for life.
Either way, if there is life hidden deep in the soil it is pretty certain it will be small, microscopic, even unicellular, definitively not humanoid or like anything shown in the movies.

I was suggesting organism like in the movies; I meant whatever small creature might be in existence there, since we haven't seen all of Mars with complete detail and whatnot.

Another thing, here on Earth we breath oxygen and consider it near equivalent to life. Fact is, oxygen is a highly chemically reactive, toxic, combustive and somewhat acidic in nature, gas. More common gasses exist that don't need plants to constantly replenish them. Extraterrestrial life(if existent) not only probably breathes some other gas besides oxygen but, could be something so different and excuse any puns, alien that it might not fit what we consider life.