BS: Is there life on Mars?

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 04:55 PM

I'm sure if the landers survive their landings some sort of life will emerge on the planet's surface, probably mad cow disease. The real question is whether they have any folk clubs up there, whatever folk music is...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: GUEST,Yvonne.
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 09:46 AM

Sorry first time here, extraterresterial life on Mars?
Well its a yes, and no ,answer.
Its obvious they are of a higher Intelligence and this is the reason they have never tried to contact us.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: GUEST,Yvonne.
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 09:32 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 08:39 AM

Of corse there is life on Mars and the minute they saw another space craft approaching they all rallied round and blocked the signals with their green antennae!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 25 Dec 03 - 09:02 AM

No signals from The Beagle today,they will try again to-morrow. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Amos
Date: 25 Dec 03 - 12:34 AM

Hell just a few well-built canal locks would make ALL the difference!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 09:49 PM

Dehah Thoris is enough life for any self-respecting planet. I hope they find a bunch of tharks and thoats. That would spark things up on the 6 O'Clock News.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: mooman
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 08:24 PM

Who knows....but I do have to say hats off to Professor Bumfluff (sorry!... Pillinger) for true British eccentricity, perseverance and ingenuity. Wish I could have designed a Mars probe from Meccano (well...it's a wee bit more sophisticated than that I suppose). I just hope the bouncing ballons don't hit anything too sharp and that the Beagle does land safety.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 08:14 PM

The English eccentric I prefer is the one who threw toilet bowls, dead cows, and Morris Minors from his home made catapult... :-)

Of course you have seen that printer ad that had the Martians rapidly printing off dead landscapes and rushing around to hold them up in front of the camera...

They're just gonna do it again...

And did you hear that the special soil penetration test sent back results of the test on the camera lens cap that amazingly fell right where the test prod was supposed to work?

The Martians did that too you know...

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Penny S.
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 12:56 PM

The eccentric professor, who also farms, and looks and sounds that part, is Colin Pillinger of the Open University.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Beardy
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 11:04 AM

Dave Bryant:- it would depend on whether they met jOhn first.

Stewart

PS I take it your not coming to Whitby then

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: GUEST,Nigel Parsons (at work)
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 10:39 AM

To quote Eric Idle (of Monty Python):

"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth."


Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 10:39 AM

Geeziz, there's barely life here........

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Peter T.
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 10:12 AM

"The Beagle Has Landed" is from Peanuts, originally.

Of course there is life on Mars. Her name is Deja Thoris.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Gareth
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 09:59 AM

err !

Don't you mean "Euston, We have a problem !"

Gareth (Cynical *BG*)

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Arnie
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 09:42 AM

Liz - I reckon that just about every newspaper in the UK will have 'The Beagle has landed' on the front page. However - I got it on Mudcat first!!

Arnie

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 08:56 AM

So who would like to take a bet on which newspaper comes up with the headline 'the Beagle has Landed'? and will they credit Les Barker with it if they do? (It's the title of one of his books)

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 08:44 AM

You'd probably only get a 50/50 result on the chances of there being any intelligent life forms, if it landed in Hull !

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 08:15 AM

Our first Viking lander returned a mixed 50 50 result on detecting organic life. So the official report concluded there was no life.

The largest life forms on Mars will eventually be shown to be fungal some as large as 500 sq mile colonies.

The tube like structures on Mars are still beyond comprehension.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: MMario
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 08:03 AM

Of course mars missions go screwy. The Martains are fouling them up so as to preserve their privacy. Would you want the neighbors playing peeping ttom if you could prevent it?

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: GUEST,shelley c at work
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 07:19 AM

I've just read my posting and I realise the punctuation is a bit confusing. It wasn't constructed because of his bushy sideburns..I hope you understand what I mean. I'm going to get me coat now before it all gets too confusing.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: GUEST,shelley c at work
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 07:17 AM

There's a history of Mars missions going wrong (remember the failure that was caused by the imperial/metric confusion?). So I really hope it all goes well this time. I'd love to see some pictures live from Mars on Christmas Day.
BTW, on the news it said that Prof Pennington, the guy in charge, was not allowed near the equipment as it was constructed because of his bushy sideburns. The stuff has to be prepared in sterile conditions, and no-one with facial hair was allowed to contaminate it. The Professor refused to part with his beloved sideburns, and so had to supervise from a distance. Long live British eccentrics *g*

Subject: BS: Is there life on Mars?
From: Arnie
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 07:05 AM

Well, we might know the answer very soon! With little fanfare, a British probe, the Beagle, is due to land on the Martian surface on Christmas Day and begin a series of experiments. It's certainly got the bookies worried as they've slashed the odds on some kind of life being discovered. I thought they might have called it the Beagle so mission control could announce 'The Beagle has landed' in parody of the moon landing - but apparently it's named after Darwin's research ship. One things for sure, if there is any life up there our big corporations will soon negotiate a cheap deal on their mineral rights......