Nasa needs more funding.

[Gloss²]

There is NO LIFE IN SPACE until about millions and millions and millions of light years away that we will never be able to see first hand. Not in this life time and not in the next life time not even 2,000 years away.

The chance of nasa finding life out there is about 0.5%

Stop making up your own loving statistics.

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[Fredulus]

Mars has dried up river deposits up there. If there were any life on mars it's dead by now because there is no loving water. The entire planet of mars looks like a nuclear warzone.

There has been documented liquid water on the surface of mars.
There are continent-sized areas on mars that are over 60% water by weight.
There is more than likely liquid water beneath the surface.

[Menen]

There has been documented liquid water on the surface of mars.
There are continent-sized areas on mars that are over 60% water by weight.
There is more than likely liquid water beneath the surface.

Which is why we need to get our asses to mars pronto.

[devildogelite]

forget you. Seriously, you are the biggest starfish on these forums that I have ever had to deal with, I honestly hope your post can count for random flaming just so you can be gone for a week at least. If you can't handle someone else's opinions then get the forget off your computer, cancel your Internet service and just do something at least half as richardish.

In reply;That's 526 billion that could have gone to things like the economy or military purposes, instead of 135 space launches over the course of 63 years. And let's not forget the environmental issues that come along with it, because
I wish these forums had a mute button, just so I could spam the stuff out of it every time I saw your username.

We need to spend less on research and more on the military?

I think you might actually be handicapped.

[Fredulus]

Btw, NASA's budget makes up HALF A PERCENT of the federal budget. Defense spending is what, 40%?

[Steve5452]

There is NO LIFE IN SPACE until about millions and millions and millions of light years away that we will never be able to see first hand. Not in this life time and not in the next life time not even 2,000 years away.

The chance of nasa finding life out there is about 0.5%

I'm sure there's life some hundred light years away.

[Mikoyan]

Btw, NASA's budget makes up HALF A PERCENT of the federal budget. Defense spending is what, 40%?

What? All I can hear is MURRICA

[Thé Lord Tony]

I'm sure there's life some hundred light years away.

That's still thousands of years away.

[Fredulus]

That's still thousands of years away.

I think you forgot to read my post

There has been documented liquid water on the surface of mars.
There are continent-sized areas on mars that are over 60% water by weight.
There is more than likely liquid water beneath the surface.

[Thé Lord Tony]

There has been documented liquid water on the surface of mars.
There are continent-sized areas on mars that are over 60% water by weight.
There is more than likely liquid water beneath the surface.

Mars also has a thin layer of radiation.

[Fredulus]

Mars also has a thin layer of radiation.

I have no idea what you're referring to. Perhaps you mean mars has a thin atmosphere, which allows more radiation to reach the surface? This is true, there is enough UV on the martian surface to fry any small organisms, which is why if there IS life on mars, we'll find it under the surface with the liquid water, protected from radiation.

[Menen]

Mars also has a thin layer of radiation.

That isnt how radiation works.

Radiation isnt a gas that glumps up into layers. Its energy.

Of course you could have maybe radioactive gas, although im not sure.

[AdinX]

Quit saying "he." If you're gonna refer to me, say "Adin"
I never left. Nor do I plan to.

We need to spend less on research and more on the military?

I think you might actually be handicapped.

I chose military out of choice, because I have an interest in it. If NASA gets 500 billion in it's entire life span, that money going to the military should pretty much go unnoticed over that same time span. that's a little less than an extra 50 billion a year in the military's pocket, which really is not a big number for the military. I never said STRICTLY JUST THE MILITARY, I said;

That's 526 billion that could have gone to things like the economy or military purposes

I don't really care where the money goes, all I know is that when you divide a large project into small parts via teams, stuff gets done quicker and more efficiently than if it's just ONE team.

Second, you're one to talk. I don't think you can manage to make a single post without including some form of insult. You try and seem intellectual, and then you end up swearing like you just learned how to. You take what glass does (no offense grassy) and make it 20x worse.

[Mega-Bear]

That's still thousands of years away.

All the more reason to get started on it as soon as possible.

[sir dooble]

I'm sure there's life some hundred light years away.

I'm not saying that we should just ignore the search for life, in whatever form it is in (A lot of us seem to be getting confused. Most professional research into the existence for life is not searching for advanced life-forms like us, but rather looking for single-celled organisms and such), but we should be reasonable and acknowledge that we're not likely to find life quite like we know it, anytime soon.

There's a possibility that life is out there, but that isn't 100% at all. And just because there is a possibility, a probability, it does not mean that there is life out there.
Statistics work that way. There may be a 99% chance that there is life out there, but that could still mean that despite the odds there is none.

And if we do find life, it's more likely to be microscopic. Which isn't a bad thing. It's still good news for us, and an exciting prospect to research.
If there were advanced life out there (like us), then they are some incredible distance away.
If they were in our solar-system, we'd very likely know about them.
If they're not in our solar system, then they are an incredible distance away.
Light-years away, at least. And while that might seem like not much, it is. It might take light just 1 year to travel a light-year (not very long in universal scales) it would take us a lot longer, because we just can not go that fast.

That isnt how radiation works.

Radiation isnt a gas that glumps up into layers. Its energy.

Of course you could have maybe radioactive gas, although im not sure.

Clouds of Radioactive Isotopes is entirely possible (and is exceedingly common in space, where they make up the large proportion of things like Nebulae), but if that was on Mars in any good quantity, we'd definitely know about it.