Will We Soon Find Life in the Heavens?

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Of the 64 basic amino acid groupings, earth creatures uses just a few. The other earth-like planets may have creatures that use other amino-acid groups, that would not be digestible to earth creatures and so forth. By seeding Mars with earth amino-acid creatures that produce life that is compatible with earth creature metabolism, we can prepare Mars for growing food for earth creatures because the amino-acids are compatible with earth creature metabolic requirements. This concept is based upon the fact that "Life Begats Life"; i.e., we don't eat rocks but rather the plants and animals that are earth creatures.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY 2:10PM March 20, 2011

What a waste!!!
Up and running since October of 2007. Seems to me that Paul Allen made a bad investment. Hey maybe we could sell the arrays for scrap and use the money to develop jobs that focus on sustainable energy or pay the Israelies to train us on what they know about terrorists. They seem to be more succcesful than we are in controlling terrorists.

Vic Cheney of FL 10:20AM December 30, 2009

We are spending billions to find a microbe and we know there isn't intelligent life on Mars or elsewhere in our solar-system, so why bother just looking for a microbe on Mars? Big Deal! Why don't we seed Mars with compatible life forms from Earth (we can mutate protozoans to survive on Mars). This could be useful to us and would be a great experiment. The microbiologists would love this challange. Bacteria can be force grown to live in the Mars environment. Putting life on Mars would be a great endeavor for mankind; because we are not going to communicate with an intelligent microbial civilization on Mars as in many science fiction movies. I think there is intelligent life on Earth but I'm not sure of this as it difficult to set up communication with the Earth's life forms.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY 1:16PM July 29, 2009

My personal opinion is that their is aliens but not our size, Here on earth millions of years ago we started of as tiny little particals that over time natural selection or evolution as some call it, took place to make bigger and better cretures such as us humans. So if we began like that why can't people believe they have yet. Us humans haven't been on Earth for ever, so maby life on other planets havent evolved yet. I also believe that every planet in our solar system have gone through stages. Earth i feel is in the middle stage and after a while will end up like mars or the sun, all dried out. Scientists are telling us about global warming, its not as if only earth will ever expeiriance this, what if mars did and life their died out. We haven't been here long enough to even suspect what happens on other planets.

Corey 7:13AM July 15, 2009

I think we should stop wasting our money on these projects. If the aliens are so sophisticated they will contact us. let them spend all their money, if they have any, and contact us. or perhaps they are a bunch of snobs and they have no interest in us at all. so why bother?

ex-terrestial of NJ 9:31PM April 19, 2009

Well the best way to find other life in the universe is to look where at best odds it may be. Why are we spending all this money looking on Mars when it is so obvious there is no life there. Now if you look at Titan or Enceladus Satan's moons to me it would serve us better to look for life on a planet or moon that is most like our Earth. Titan has an atmosphere with %95 nitrogen, hydrocarbons on the surface, and electric activity in its atmosphere. Enceladus with its tiger stripes and water volcanoes and internal heat. Now I am no scientist but it would seem these are the first places we should be looking for life outside our planet. At least trying to establish interplanetary bases with elements we know that we can use to sustain life for these bases. Our planet and its life cycle is a model for life in the universe and it is this model we should be looking for in the universe to find life. In addition we should seriously be looking into establishing a moon base and mining the moon for H3 to bring it back to Earth and use it to power nuclear fusion plants.

Raymond Young of NV 7:45PM February 26, 2009

I do believe there are some alien on other earth-like planets.

OO of AL 8:35AM February 24, 2009

When one contemplates the vastness of space, with the billions upon billions, of galaxies out there, there must be something, somewhere, that moves from point A to point B, under it's own power.
Maybe just maybe, there are as many differnet life forms in all of interstellar space, as there are grains of sand on Earth.
Then again, maybe, just maybe, we are alone, a one-of-a-kind, per chance happening that has occured in our Milky Way Galaxy.
The quest to find these answers must, and will go on. Mankinds curiosity will have it no other way.
And if there are other life forms capable of communicating with us from the vastness of interstellar space, then they too, will have it no other way, and eventually contact of some kind, might be made.

Peter Rush of VT 5:21PM February 19, 2009

After reading G.H. Reynolds' article in Popular Mechanics, "Why I Hope there's No Life on Mars," I hope there aren't any extra-terrestials nearby. No, I'm not saying this because I just watched Predator, Alien, Independence Day, Signs, or E.T., but because of the health risks. Imagine we find bateria on Mars. The media will be fighting to get the best story, scientists are bidding to the first to examine and experiment the new species, and Hollywood would let the Sci-Fi floodgates open. But here's the problem. Because we don't know anything about this new bacteria, we aren't sure if it will kill us or start wiping out indiginous species on earth. The opposite can occur as well. Will it die because its food source isn't on earth or will our own bacteria kill off all those on Mars? Then classifying the little boogers becomes a challenge as well. Is this a native strand of the flu or did NASA send a very sick astronaut to Mars? Do you see what I'm getting at?
I'm sure it would be fascinating to talk to Mr. Spok and Jar-Jar Binks, but for right now I'd rather scientists find out how to keep us and other life protected before we find E.T. with the Martian flu.

Dryfire of IL 1:47PM February 07, 2009