What happens if we find fossils on Mars?

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I mean this is a good question. Does this affect the markets? Would there be mass hysteria? Say Beagle, or Spirit, or Opportunity digs in and sends back pictures of fossils buried beneath a sandy layer of rock?

Before you laugh, this might happen in less than 7 months. If just ONE of those robots manages to land on Mars, we could get pictures of a fossil. The robots are certainly being sent to the bottom of a past body of water, and the rocks there will have fossils if there was life. NASA is supposedly really playing this down because, well, that's what NASA does.

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fossils found?? god is dead in the water. and mankind begins slow painful [for most] realization that IT aint center of unee verse! me? i am content in that state now :-/
 
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fossils found?? god is dead in the water. and mankind begins slow painful [for most] realization that IT aint center of unee verse! me? i am content in that state now :-/
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can you believe people actually think all this stuff is here FOR US? *shakes head*
 
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can you believe people actually think all this stuff is here FOR US? *shakes head*
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you know aht is really pathetic is religous zealots will quickly come up with an answer to this event if it should occur.

in their world view, its all for a divine purpose.

ahhhhhh,, the fools!

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here is the SPIRIT next to pathfinder.

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They have already discovered fossilized bacteria in meteorites, and it is actually possible that this type of bacteria actually lead to the development of species on earth billions of years ago, so if we found fossils on Mars I don't think the average joe would give much thought to it.

Runningbear
 
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