Mystery "historical" discovery made by Curiosity!

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Im not one to call conspiracy, but when the shoe fits. Its not news that all major discoveries have to be shown to certain members in government before going public. The government wants to make sure it wont cause public panic and/or unrest ruining their status quo. Ill be glad when private owners start sending probs to mars.

Orrrr.... socially inept NASA scientists got overly excited about organic compounds or some unique chemicals that common Earth-folk don't really care about, so they walked it back. I'm curious what you think a rover could find that would change anyone's world view or cause panic. We already know green men aren't walking around. There aren't hidden missile silos aimed at Earth. Stop making the alien-conspiracy guy from the History Channel sound good.

 

[Edguy]

I'm betting it'll be that Mars was capable of supporting life 35 billion years ago, which of course means absolutely nothing practically, but always seems to give scientists massive hardons, as if any intelligent person didn't already know that it's mathematically impossible for there not to be other life sustaining planets in the universe.

That would be pretty f***ing significant, considering most common theories only account the universe as we know it as 13,7 billion years old.

 

[Spider-Who?]

I think its time for wikileaks or anonymous to get on the case.

Well if you believe some UFO nuts, there are already dozens of UFO files out thanks to wiki leaks.

 

[Doctor Evo]

That would be pretty f***ing significant, considering most common theories only account the universe as we know it as 13,7 billion years old.

 

[Mike_D202]

I demand Martian fossils.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

The Mars rover found the ghost of Ray Bradbury.

 

[Slushy]

They will reveal that there is life on Mars!

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[ThePhantasm]

So what ever happened with this? Did they announce what it was?

 

[Mike_D202]

It was nothing, the guy who made the comment "one for the history books" counted his chickens before they hatched. Assuming it was some kind of mineral.

 

[Baramos]

I'm betting it'll be that Mars was capable of supporting life 35 billion years ago, which of course means absolutely nothing practically, but always seems to give scientists massive hardons, as if any intelligent person didn't already know that it's mathematically impossible for there not to be other life sustaining planets in the universe.

Well that would be older than they think the universe is so that would be a historical discovery.

But yeah it will probably be something fairly underwhelming, like that the soil COULD maybe have had life in it at some point maybe perhaps. The remains of bacteria would probably be the "biggest" this could possibly be.