2010 could turn out to be a landmark year – the year that sees the announcement that extraterrestrial life has been discovered.
You’re probably wondering what nutjob I’ve been listening to. No less a nutjob than Astronomy magazine. Ok, so the magazine is a bit thin and light these days compared to what it used to be. But a snippet in the Cosmic Grid section at the back of the June 2010 issue caught my attention. It read:
| Big hype on Mars Life
Scientific American reports proof of martian life “to come this year”. |
What? I double-checked to make sure this wasn’t the April issue (April’s Fool and all that).
Checking Scientific American’s website, I found this page: Proof of Martians ‘to come this year‘. And the alleged proof comes not from Mars itself but from martian meteorites here on Earth.
While I was digesting that information, along comes a story that NASA may have discovered life on Titan.
It also appears that Mars’ moon, Phobos, is hollow. This has been confirmed by the ESA. While some loons contend that this is proof that Phobos is an extraterrestrial spaceship parked on Mars orbit, a more likely explanation is that Phobos is a loose aggregation of material that did not have enough gravity to squash out any voids in its structure. Still, the ESA results make it unlikely that Phobos is a captured asteroid. So what is it then?
Interesting times!
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