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How hard would it be to find fossils on mars and venus? Both seem to have once been somewhat suitable for life once. Would microbial life leave a print in sediment or anything suitable and would that leave something that'd last long enough for us to dig up and examine?

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14724783

they already found fossils on mars

>> No.14724793

>>14724781
the hard part is getting there

>> No.14724827

Literally impossible on Venus, the surface is continually refreshed every million years or so because of volcanos

On Mars any fossil you might find would be pathetically tiny and over three billion years old (if I remember my faint young sun vs wet early mars timeline right)

>> No.14725822

bump

>> No.14725956

>>14724783
So mars used to have walruses?

>> No.14725961

>>14724827
>the surface is continually refreshed every million years or so because of volcanos
imagine the secrets buried under venutian soil. Could be an entire civilization buried under there that was never able to escape their planet before the runaway greenhouse effect took place. I wonder if humanity will ever be able to perform escavations on Venus.

>> No.14725998

>>14725961
No. The entire crust is literally liquified every few million years by heat buildup. “Re-surfacing” is a euphemism.

There was never advanced life on Venus anyway, and almost certainly never any life at all. It began with negligible water content. Earth is rare.

>> No.14726010

>>14725998
>There was never advanced life on Venus anyway, and almost certainly never any life at all. It began with negligible water content. Earth is rare.
This is all most likely true but who knows there could have been microbial life, or aliens could have visited it. We're looking at billions of years of time passing. I do believe humans are the first intelligent life in the universe but I can't rule out other intelligent life has existed before us and potentially visited our solar system.

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>>14725956
NASA said it, I believe it, that settles it

>> No.14726087

>>14726082
I choose to believe dinosaurs did not have feathers.
I do not care what anyone says.

>> No.14726374

>>14724783

>IS THAT... A HECKIN ROCK IN THE SHAPE OF A BONE?????!?
>AAAAAA SCHIZOMAN HELPPPPP

Doesn't even look the same you fucking retard. You faggots will grasp at fucking anything. Still no proof that the Mars photos are from Devon.

>> No.14726442

>>14724793
On Venus, the hard part is keeping your probe from getting roasted.

>> No.14726500

>>14726442
The Russians did it once for fifteen minutes

>> No.14726506

>>14724781
I believe the best option would be to search on the northern mars plains since they might have been an ocean at some point, but that would require humans for digging there or some very advanced robots for that.
Would be very cool to find a Trilobite-like fossil there but then we will have to endure retards saying it is faked.

>> No.14726548

>>14726506

Flat Earth space denier schizos would probably have a meltdown if we found fossils on another planet lol. This is why I think finding alien life will have no effect on religion. The normal religious people will just say that God is very powerful, and the schizos will cry about it being satanic lies.

>> No.14726555

>>14726500
>once for fifteen minutes
more like over a dozen times for about an hour on average per probe.
gotta admire their stubbornness

>> No.14726557

>>14726500
not nearly enough time to find oil unless you get extremely lucky

>> No.14726601

>>14726548
It will actually create more religion. One week after they announce it there will be a dozen alien cults about the Zybloing civilization and their emperor Zwggah or some shit.

>> No.14727719

>>14726548
What i find really interesting is how people will react to intelligent aliens accepting jesus into their heart.

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>>14724781
>how hard is it to find something that doesnt exist?
Pretty hard, id say.

>> No.14728989

>>14727721
Then again, is they were to find ruins of a dam across Valles Marineris, things would get interesting.

>> No.14729181

>>14727719
Nah, the aliens will be the ones catechizing humans.

>> No.14729183

>>14725956
prove it didn't

>> No.14730706

>>14724781
>Would microbial life leave a print in sediment or anything suitable and would that leave something that'd last long enough for us to dig up and examine?
Yes.
Free oxygen does not occur in nature without biological replenishment. So anything that has been burned in air containing oxygen will be a clear sign. Same with carbon, finding coal will also be an indication of past life.

>> No.14731511

>>14724781
>How hard would it be to find fossils on mars and venus?

Just went outside and prove how easy it is to find fossils on the earth

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>>14724781

>> No.14732895

>>14726557
interestingly enough, Venus is more than likely rich in hydrocarbons

>> No.14732929

"microbial life" isn't proof of life, chud. It's just cells.

>> No.14733728

>>14732895
>Venus is more than likely rich in hydrocarbons
Why?

>>14732929
How about """""""""""microbial life""""""""""" then? Or do we need more quotation marks before life=life?

The search for intelligent life found nothing in >>14732929.

>> No.14733948

>>14726374
Still no proof that the Mars photos are from Mars, chud.