Post AzTxdasqJMoWN0RULg by HumanServitor@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AzTxVNYhy7GkjA6inY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-22T23:14:15Z
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Provisionally excited about the mars mold**or rather bacterial patch candidate, or possible strange geology weathering as not yet cataloged... which is almost as exciting as bacteria.
(DIR) Post #AzTxZgNbw02UG3y84O by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-22T23:15:02Z
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eeeeee what if someday they get a dollop and sequence it and it's not related to anything on earth eeee what if that happened
(DIR) Post #AzTxdasqJMoWN0RULg by HumanServitor@mastodon.social
2025-10-22T23:15:41Z
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@futurebird Have the strangest urge to lick the moldy Martian rock. Better keep me away from the samples.
(DIR) Post #AzTxpFMEAdJp5Dk9OC by KateOfMind@mastodon.social
2025-10-22T23:17:49Z
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@futurebird I'm still in the stage of Mars rock is interesting just because it is Mars rock so whatever this turns out to be will blow my mind.
(DIR) Post #AzTy07Ekhdon5DQhJQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-22T23:19:49Z
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If it's not the same that means there is bacteria on EVERYTHING basically. Sadly I don't think we can know unless we send a way to test it up there OR find a way to bring it back.
(DIR) Post #AzTy5mEtgVUZhJCGlk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-22T23:20:48Z
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@KateOfMind That is probably more sensible. But I want there to be bacterial on everything. Because then we can assume space ants are real, right?
(DIR) Post #AzTyJodRZc49BNN9oe by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-10-22T23:23:19Z
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@futurebird Is this about the Perseverance "leopard spots" ? Or something else?Either way: Not aliens.
(DIR) Post #AzTyek8pTapHKJ22Iy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-22T23:27:07Z
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@Wyatt_H_Knott ...yeah...the "fossil bacteria" were totally the wrong size I think.
(DIR) Post #AzTzKtmu0ATnPGsR2e by KateOfMind@mastodon.social
2025-10-22T23:34:42Z
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@futurebird I mean, it certainly wouldn't be evidence against space ants. Something has to/had to be keeping that fungal growth in check.
(DIR) Post #AzVWY5Zuy1hTNtf23s by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-10-23T17:21:36Z
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@futurebird I fully expect we'll find some hardy bacteria on Mars eventually -- but also fully expect that it will be related to life on Earth. There's been so much material thrown up from impacts on both planets over time that non-sterile material *has* to have been transferred again and again.It would be amazing if we found totally alien life with no common origins, but I'm betting we'll find distant cousins (of archaic Earth microbes) instead.