NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has apparently made a discovery "for the history books," but we'll have to wait a few weeks to learn what the new Red Planet find may be, media reports suggest.

http://www.space.com/18565-mars-rover-curiosity-discovery-mystery.html

I recently made the remark that I want to live long enough to see life discovered somewhere besides earth... Maybe this is it!

It's probably in the scriptures somewhere already, but I haven't found it there. (After the fact, we'll certainly hear all about how it was in there all along.)



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Elohim?

Interesting. Let's wait and see...

Very cool! I'll be looking forward to the news. I'm almost starting to think of Curiosity as a person. It's been such an interesting mission.

Every time a board member links to space.com, I find that I enjoy that site very much.

perhaps they found the three nephites! we haven't heard of their adventures for a while...

This had better not just be some new LaTeX idea.

CNN had the same story.
In the comments somebody posted this:
"They have discovered Joseph Smith living there with his 27 teenage wives. Jesus !"

This is the legacy of the Mormon moment.

Probably tall hats and discarded quaker clothing

I was going to guess a butter churn.

wooden submarines

I'm pretty sure they found a coke bottle.

This guy
http://wordpressapi.com/2010/08/02/free-cartoon-mobile-wallpapers-iphone-mobile/marvin-the-martian/



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Twinkies?

Stuffing mines?

Cureloms and Cumoms?

The gold plates?

I'm very curious to find out what they think they found that they are verifying before they report.

Whatever it is, they need to give the trail of evidence that independent scientists can see and come to the same conclusion. (Obviously this is not how religion operates which is why religion has less credibility.)

My guess is that they found a very simple molecule that is a building block of a carbon based replication system. Or maybe something about water? Metal? Salt? Maybe an atmospheric component they didn't expect? To the average person this kind of thing may not seem interesting or important.

Whatever they find, it will add to our knowledge about how things came to be the way they are. Stupid scientists. They could have just asked a prophet.

If any of the predictions made above pan out to be true, I will personally send the poster who made the correct guess a BoM with a testimony inside. :-)

Their scientific care over determining what is real and what is not is very refreshing.

And yet nearly anyone can write articles and books full of theories about a fictional people without a shred of evidence, other than a book written by a convicted con man.

Even elaborate theories about where this fictional people lived and why the word "horse" doesn't really mean horse.

Way to go science, good on ya.

Perhaps a Mars-shaking discovery?

I think the speculation was that it was finding methane and nitrogen and whatever other chemicals or gasses that would confirm that live could have possibly been on mars billions of years ago. Not in any way having found fossilized remains.

Anyway, should be interesting.

One site did a contest on what the 'earth shaking mars discovery' may be

http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/ad221/furterfan/marsdiscovery.jpg

[not mine... I would credit the source, but it contains one of the unknown and unguessable banned words]

Skepticism is good, and they are careful for good reasons. A scientist who makes a claim is going to have the rest of them trying to shoot down his claim because that's the way it works.

The most likely possibility is as was said, some organic molecules from past life. I really hope, though, that they've found more fragile molecules that would have had to come from current living things. I like this possibility!

Extremeophiles live in more challenging conditions on earth right now, compared to some of the likely conditions on Mars, like under the dirt a bit, some bacteria-like stuff that can hibernate and spring back to life when it gets sunny. Some parts of Mars get up in the 70 degree F. range at odd times.

I don't have time to review what everyone said above, so my apologies if someone else mentioned it...

Another story mentioned that they'd found something "unique" about the origins of water on Mars, and that it hadn't come from comets as they suspected, but from other sources...

I could be wrong, but this kind of hype and salesmanship isn't good for science or science education.

P.S. Over on ldsfreedomforum they're probably debating whether Curiosity is actually broadcasting from Mars or a green screen stage in Burbank...



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