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What are the chances of anything coming from Mars?

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What are the chances of anything coming from Mars?

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  • @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    69•5 months ago

    We’ve been there. For decades. You know that, right?

  • @BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
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    51•5 months ago

    “A million to one.” They said…

    • Goodman
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      15•5 months ago

      But still they come

    • nocturne
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      13•5 months ago

    • @nick@midwest.social
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      5•5 months ago

      I got this. Well done.

      • @pineapple@lemmy.ml
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        1•5 months ago

        Can you explain it please?

        • @nick@midwest.social
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          1•5 months ago

          It’s from the war of the worlds musical, references elsewhere in this thread.

  • davel [he/him]
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    29•5 months ago

    What are the chances that this question came from Uranus?

    • IninewCrow
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      2•5 months ago

      Said the astronomer from his observatory in Uruguay

  • Vitaly
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    28•5 months ago

    0%

  • @Z3k3@lemmy.world
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    28•5 months ago

    One million to one

    • @altasshet@lemmy.ca
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      20•5 months ago

      And still they come

      • @CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world
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        12•5 months ago

        Disco music intensifies

        • CaptainBlagbird
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          1•5 months ago

          deleted by creator

    • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      9•5 months ago

      Million in one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

      • SeaJ
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        4•5 months ago

        That doesn’t seem right but I don’t know the math to dispute it…

        • @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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          5 months ago

          A wise decision. There are extensive proofs written by Prof. Ridcully D.Thau., D.M., D.S., D. Mn., D.G., D.D., D.C.L., D.M. Phil., D.M.S., D.C.M., D.W., B.El.L. of UU.

    • @ryan213@lemmy.ca
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      1•5 months ago

      So you’re telling me there’s a chance?! -LC

  • IninewCrow
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    14•5 months ago

    Lol … a probe or sample device gets picked up on Mars, sent back to earth carrying an exotic extra terrestrial virus that is indestructible. It infects our planet killing every biological organism on earth.

    The Martians end up invading and conquering us … just not in the way we imagined.

    • Nemo's public admirer
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      2•5 months ago

      Had me thinking about the Species movie at the start of your comment

  • @zephorah@lemm.ee
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    13•5 months ago

    Even if an ice asteroid crashed and vaporized some semblance of an atmosphere onto the planet the solar wind would strip it off because there’s no magnetic field.

    It’s a dead rock. Better to look to Jupiter’s moons than Mars.

  • @grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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    10•5 months ago

    My tinfoil hat theory that is all in jest is that Mars was “First Earth” and it got real fucked up and anything that was there got wiped out and what we see now is all that’s left of it.

  • @zagaberoo@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    A million to one of course.

    edit: but still, they come!

  • NevelioKrejall
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    7•5 months ago

    I mean, anything? That’s got to be close enough to 100% to make no difference. Rocks in space hit planets, pieces break off at escape velocity, they become the space rocks that hit other planets. I doubt there’s a solid body in the inner solar system that doesn’t have at least a little bit of Mars on it.

  • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    7•5 months ago

    I’d put the chances of Mars sample return going off in the next couple decades at about 70%.

    https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_sample-return_mission https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-sample-return

  • St3alth
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    6•5 months ago

    Apart from a slim opportunity of one of the robots we put up there coming back in the future it currently stands at 0% we would know by now if something other than robots was on mars

  • @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    5•5 months ago

    Zero.

  • SeaJ
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    5•5 months ago

    What do you mean by “coming from?” We get scientific knowledge from it. If you mean something physical, we are planning to do a sample return mission by the end of the decade. For something not from us, we very very occasionally get done ejects from it. The chances of anything being alive are basically nil.

  • @BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    5•5 months ago

    I’m pretty sure we have quite a few meteorites that came from Mars.

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