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Photos show Mushrooms on Mars claim scientists

Do you believe there are mushrooms on Mars?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • No

    Votes: 9 64.3%

  • Maybe/Unsure

    Votes: 4 28.6%
  • Total voters
    14
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Suave said:
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.
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The soil is poisonous to humans, but perhaps not to other life forms.
 
The Hammer

The Hammer

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Premium Member
Evangelicalhumanist said:
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.
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Was going to bring up this exact point, mushrooms break down organic material for sustenance. The presence of a mushroom would indicate the presence of an entire ecosystem.
 
We Never Know

We Never Know

No Slack
Suave said:
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.
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"Naturally, we can’t completely rule out the existence of mushrooms on Mars – yet the fact that the authors have a track history of making unsubstantiated claims renders their new study particularly difficult to believe. In particular, the involvement of Rhawn Gabriel Joseph undermines the credibility of the entire project."

Nope, We Haven’t Just Found Evidence For Mushrooms Growing on Mars | IFLScience


The "mushrooms on Mars and fungi on Venus" theory is a worn out, debunked idea that appears like clockwork, about once a year. The headlines certainly are interesting: Imagine if we found fungi on Mars or Venus! It would literally rewrite our ideas about life in the cosmos -- but the articles rarely interrogate the scientific evidence for the wild claims.

https://www-cnet-com.cdn.ampproject...not-evidence-of-fungus-growing-on-mars-sorry/
 
danieldemol

danieldemol

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
Suave said:
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.
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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
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
I wouldn't be surprised, as fungus does appear a hardened survivor, but that is here on Earth. But I'd want more than pictures. Those show faces on Mars and Bigfoot and Nessy.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
danieldemol said:
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
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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).
 
oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
Suave said:
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.
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Well, that's it, not only was a 'scientific peer reviewed research paper' published, but the Daily Mail (UK) ran a story about this with some other pics, one is posted below.

The discovery of a Universe teeming with life will surprise me less than our duck Dolly laying a double-yoke egg.
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