Blog About Animals

As I type the Nasa Phoenix has finished traveling 85,000 miles per hour towards the surface of the planet Mars and confirmation has been received the the Mars Phoenix has just landed safely on the surface of the Red Planet! Now this is monumental…

However this article is not about the landing itself (more detailed info can be followed Nasa Mars Phoenix Lander Site). It is about what the Phoenix landing might change for us.

We have a good grasp of what we believe to be a life form or an animal. Anything we dream up in our heads is normally a mutated or Frankenstein’d version of what we already know. It is almost impossible for us to judge what a life on another planet may actually look and function like.

Part of the mission of the Nasa Mars Phoenix Lander will be to discover if Mars was ever suitable for life, if there has ever been life on Mars and if so, what was it?

Some scientists are already trying to get people ready for expecting life that we have never seen before and with the recent discovery of the Hottest Life Forms on earth the possibility that evidence of past life on Mars is ever growing.

A recent story from National Geographic talked about a life form that had been found a mile under the seafloor living in hot sediment. This is double the known depth for any life and also probably the hottest conditions that life has ever been found in. They are thriving in the 60 to 100 degrees Celsius sediment and it has been estimated that they could be 10 to 30 percent of the world’s total living matter. The life forms are said to be similar to previously discovered life forms that thrive around hot springs.

I believe that it is almost ignorant for us to discount life on other planets. I am not a religious person but respect religion and do not discount the notion of some higher being or energy. I also believe that they notion of other life fits in well and could be openly accepted by most religious people.

Merging science and religion and accepting that we are not alone leaves us only with the thoughts of what is sharing the universe?

Maybe soon our human fascination will be fueled again when Nasa discovers a small organism developed enough to be called an Animal, living under the icy Mars surface.

We can only hope !!

Will we find life?
If we do, what will it change?
Do you believe that we are alone?
What will the Aliens look like?

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