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| Seeding Mars; planting Earth life on Mars (accidently) | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 29 2010, 04:43 AM (1,265 Views) | |
| Toad of Spades | Jan 29 2010, 04:43 AM Post #1 |
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If somehow during the process of sterilizing a rover to be sent to Mars too search for life, either someone got lazy and didn't do the process correctly, or a particularly hardy kind of bacteria hitched a ride after the cleaning, a few Earth bacterium got stuck inside or on it. It was then arrived on Mars and dislodged itself then made its way under ground. Ironically, the rover wasn't looking deep enough and there were Martian microbes several thousand feet below ground. However the bacteria adapted to the underground condition and alot of action was undergoing. Chaotic ecological disturbances were underway culminating in them feeding on the same resources competing with each other evenly. Then, after a while, the Terran and Martian microbes incredibly, coexisted in harmony. Then several hundred years later, with no means to go as deep to find either kind of these life forms, scientists announced that there was little possibility that there was extant life forms on Mars. Then a few thousand years later, mankind tried to convert the planet into a second earth by making the planet warmer, and somehow adding more mass to the planet, kickstarting plate tectonics, internal processes, as well as adding water. After a period of time, the planet ended up like that of a Precambrian Earth. The planet would be uninhabitable for a few billion years, and even then, surviving that long would bring advancements that would render living on a planet useless for terraforming. The project was a disastrous failure. They left the planet as is, expecting it to remain a life-less stagnant pool. After around a few hundred million years, mankind was forced to leave the solar system to adapt to life in space and to contact other intelligent life. Feeling sentiment for their homeworld and its life, they replenished the Sun's reserves in order to extend its lifespan and heated the core a bit more to keep the mantle from hardening, in the hope that more intelligent life would be produced, and they left life on Earth to continue to evolve without them. Ignored, the lifeforms on Mars eventually migrated to the surface. 2 billion years later, something remarkable happened. Symbiosis had created a microbe with features of both that eventually derived enough that it resembled something totally unlike either anscestor. When a cataclysm wiped out the primitive anscestors, the derived microbe survived and its descendants flourished. They underwent a process similar to Earth adapting to a planet that eventually had an environment with oxygen and was a double Earth. Complex life started and various types of complex life emerged, even "animal"-like forms. Than after 3 billion years, mankinds' super-advanced descendants returned to show their many newfound space buddies their planet of origin. They returned to a major surprise, their solar system had two Earths! They could only tell which was Mars and which was Earth by their orbit. However this was only from a distance. Getting closer and sending probes, the planets had similar appearing and functioning biospheres with markedly different life forms. At the microscopic level, they are very different as well. Scientists were puzzled as to where the life on Mars came from. They merely assumed that life arose from their long lost project and that over time it went under similar processes like how life on Earth appeared, or somehow life was expelled from a meteorite from Earth. Little did they know, that life was there all along, from both planets. What do you think of this? Also how likely do you think it is for hardy Earth bacteria to adapt to underground life on Mars, as well as coexisting with the life already on Mars? Edited by Toad of Spades, Jan 29 2010, 04:52 AM.
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| Kain | Feb 4 2010, 12:49 AM Post #31 |
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Also, the reason Mars has no Magnetosphere is because of its small size. Mars is 1/2 of Earth's size, and has a really small core in comparison. As a result the core got cold and turned solid. Since the Magnetosphere is caused by the flow of the molten insides of a planet, when Mars turned cold, the Magnetosphere dissapeared, producing the known results. I think the best solution would be to melt the core again, and keep it molten using the tidal forces of a moon we either create in orbit around Mars or just move there from somewhere else. But I still don't know if the tidal forces would be strong enough for this to work, and how big this moon has to be. |
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