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I've no idea.aren't the spores of fungi hardy enough to survive space?
The soil is poisonous to humans, but perhaps not to other life forms.I am skeptical too, I doubt the Martian surface soil is currently conducive to multi cellular life, but if 11 scientists conclude there is photographic evidence showing mushrooms growing on Mars, then I very well could be wrong regarding the Martian surface being so inhospitable towards life.
If mushrooms are growing on Mars (as I feel comfortably certain we can say is NOT happening), I'm not interested in how the spores got there at all. What I would have to grant is simply this: since mushrooms require organic material on which to feed, why then there is some other organic material right up there on the surface of Mars.
Um, really, I don't think so.
aren't the spores of fungi hardy enough to survive space?
I don't understand how one quack scientist namely astrobiologist Rhawn Gabriel Joseph gets ten other scientists to agree with his conclusion there is photographic evidence of fungi growing on Mars. I have no idea how they got their research work published in the prestigious scientific peer review research journal of Advances in Microbiology.
(PDF) Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential ImagesWhere is this story coming from? I've seen nothing about it in reputable news sources.
I don't understand how one quack scientist namely astrobiologist Rhawn Gabriel Joseph gets ten other scientists to agree with his conclusion there is photographic evidence of fungi growing on Mars. I have no idea how they got their research work published in the prestigious scientific peer review research journal of Advances in Microbiology.
More like how one hack gets ten other hacks to agree then gets their opinion piece published in a paid journal known for deciding which articles to publish on the basis of how much they are paid in the absence of peer review.1I don't understand how one quack scientist namely astrobiologist Rhawn Gabriel Joseph gets ten other scientists to agree with his conclusion there is photographic evidence of fungi growing on Mars. I have no idea how they got their research work published in the prestigious scientific peer review research journal of Advances in Microbiology.
I think they just get excited. This actually happens quite often, a scientist will see something, insist it's evidence of extra terrestrial life (a somewhat recent one was some thingy around a planet that turned out to be more benign and natural than an alien construction. They are, after all, human. It is the mandate of replication contained within science that silences such things (we'd really be lost without that aspect of it).More like how one hack gets ten other hacks to agree then gets their opinion piece published in a paid journal known for deciding which articles to publish on the basis of how much they are paid in the absence of peer review.1
In my opinion.
1 No, NASA photos are not evidence of fungus growing on Mars, sorry
Would they burn up entering the atmosphere?If a mushroom can produce a billion spores, and if they can drift in space, I don't know if I'd assume they came from earth
We will have to see if future images show kaleidoscope eyes.One wonders if they would be hallucinogenic and cause the user to see martians, while they are actually just looking at rocks?
Ooh yeaaaaa....On the way out to harvest them, will they stop at the moon to bring back some cheese? Sauted mushrooms topped with melted cheese. Yum.
I bet those would go great on pizza.Would they burn up entering the atmosphere?
Not in the beginning no, but can we say life is only what we know it to be from earth?If other life isn't like the life we know, would we recognize it?
Recently? Maybe on April 1st?In their scientific peer reviewed research paper recently published
An international team of scientists have collected and examined images taken by NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity rovers evidently showing fungi growing on Mars. In their scientific peer reviewed research paper recently published in the research journal of Advances in Microbiology, the scientists point to a set of Opportunity rover's images showing 9 apparent fungi spheres having grown plus 12 more apparent fungi spheres emerging from beneath the soil over the course of 3 days.