do yall think mars had an advanced civilization on it because its unexplained how mars has a desert climate.?
491458
I think that we're going to be responsible for putting life on other planets, Mars and the Moon so far.  Because...before there was humans there were tiny things called bacteria.  When we walked on the moon I'm sure we transfered some onto the rocks and it will evolve, when we put the rover on mars, I'm sure there were probably some germs that transfered onto the mars rocks and they will evolve too...it will take lots of time and will not happen in our lifetime, but eventually...it will
178966
I would think no. The other planets in our solar system are either too hot, too cold, too big or with insufficient or unsuitable atmospheres to support intelligent life. As far as we know, mankind is the first creature to have organised themselves in such a way as to develop the technologies necessary to go into space and to communicate into space - and we have only done *that* in the last 50 years! So it's exceedingly rare for a culture to become what we would call advanced. \n\nThe distances even to the nearest star are enormous. Incredible even. To go to the nearest star would be the equivalent of a nematode worm doing a round the world trip on its own power - possibly many times. So far, SETI has not picked up any communications from stars that would be regarded as "close" to us, so I would say that it is extremely rare that such an event would occur.
196650
Well, it had some pretty significant ups and downs before we came along, or at least before we became industrialized.  But I think if you take the long view, so that the ice ages are but blips on the graph, Mother Earth does OK for herself.  The problem is, we are a part of Mother Nature, and so what we do to influence temperature could arguably be considered part of Her system, too.
261850
Statistically, it is very hard to believe that we (Earthliens) are along in the universe, there must be something else out there.\nAt the same time, the odds that life would develop independently on both Earth and Mars in the same solar system is pretty slim (unless life is actually not nearly as rare as we might think).\n\nThere is of course a chance that life may have developed on Mars in the past when the conditions were more suitable, but so far, we havent found anything.  Although there is the possibility, I am leaning towards no.\n\nBut think what that would mean if we discovered life outside of Earth (especially on Mars), it would be the most important discovery...ever.  If life can develop independently on two planets in the same solar system, either we are very lucky, or it the whole universe must be crawling with life (or you could throw the God factor in if you wish).
148940
I think it would only be possible if there was also lots of water on the planet as well as good solar radiation being close to a star and carbon dioxide. Also it would be helpful if there was nitrogen in the soil since plants absorb nutrients from the soil. There would also need to be rainfall on the planet, but if there wasn't irrigation and watering by caretakers could be sufficient.\n\nAnd what about terraforming? Mars has an atmosphere and I beieve carbon dioxide. Could plants grow on Mars? We'd have to transport millions of gallons of water in our ships and keep the water from sinking deep into the planet. Why would we want to do that? It could cost a trillion dollars. The moon has no atmosphere I'm not sure it could be terraformed. Just a thought.
326130
in my opinion is it doesn't exist. because think about it we are coming out of an ice age. it makes sense doesn't it? fact: there have been ice ages. fact: there is a lot of ice in ice ages. so if you know about water then you know the same amount of it is here that was here when the earth began so literally it is dinosaurs piss. well during an ice age lots of stuff is covered in water/ice ( i know i live in Minnesota and it is known that it was fully covered with ice.). so where is all the water? in ice bergs, glaciers, etc. so it would make sense that to leave an ice age most things would melt right? so they are still melting they will finish melting and cover parts of the world, then it will slowly freeze causing an ice age. why would humans make that big of a difference? we are insignificant to the world.(everyone in the world could fit in Texas and it would only be as densely populated as NY city). so our vehicles and combustible engines couldn't have that big of an effect. but you say "what about the ozone thinning?" well i am not saying it hasn't but it was because of the CFC's(chloral floral carbons) which broke up the ozone by attaching to ozone molecules. but the CFC's are no longer around. the ozone is healing itself as it is meant too. their was no real hole only a thinning which is also bad. but now it is closing up and returning to normal. if you think that the co2 we produced cant be good well think about it it isn't that much and while the earth was cooling after being created it released tons of co2. so what people will notice in the next 1-9000 years is it will warm up but in that time it will also cool down and eventually there will be an ice age. just because the great human race is here doesn't mean that the earth will stop having ice ages as it has done by its self for billions of years. think about it. am i a genius or what i mean i just looked at what has happened in history wow who would have thought history would repeat its self\n\nnow to give you sorces and go into more depth on what i just wrote\n\nwell lets see first. ice ages.\n\nAn ice age is a period of long-term downturn in the temperature of Earth's climate, resulting in an expansion of the continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers ("glaciation"). Glaciologically, ice age is often used to mean a period of ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in an ice age (because the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets still exist). More colloquially, when speaking of the last few million years, ice age is used to refer to colder periods with extensive ice sheets over the North American and Eurasian continents: in this sense, the last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. This article will use the term ice age in the former, glaciological, sense; and use the term 'glacial periods' for colder periods during ice ages and 'interglacial' for the warmer periods.\nMany glacial periods have occurred during the last few million years, initially at 40,000-year frequency but more recently at 100,000-year frequencies. These are the best studied. There have been four major ice ages in the further past.\nso we are in an ice age interesting that means it is warming up. well that is my argument but there is more so i will continue.\n\noh my sorce for the above exerpt is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ice_age... so go there and read more if u want\n\nhere is more reading on ice ages\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/j001457/fa...\nhttp://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/i...\nhttp://www.geologyshop.co.uk/iceages.htm...\ni am not making this up ice ages exist this is the basis to my argument.\n\nthen i said there is ice and water and the same amount of water is here that was millions of years ago again not made up\n\nThere is about the same amount of water on Earth now as there was millions of years ago.\nsource: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/
831291
The main reason Mars is colder is that it is much father way from the sun. Also the atmosphere is so this, it does not insulated the planet much at all.
285294
Yes, You might have heard about terraforming. Recently i gave a seminar on it. It is the method to transform the mars so that its environment can support life as earth do.  But the only thing required is you and we to get together and work hard with unity for this project. This project is neither going to be of one country or one group but the entire man kind has to work together for it
178231
G'day good question!!\nWell I'm all for space exploration, cos in the very long term it will be important for us to leave this place, scientists believe that places like Mars actually contain water in the soil in the form of Perma Frost, and if it could be released then perhaps we could live there one day. The giant moon of Jupiter ( Europa) is covered in a sheet of ice, what is under the ice is not known, perhaps a type of life form ( now that would create all sorts of questions don't u think?)
403307
Not Mars and DEFINITELY not Venus. Mars is too cold and has almost no oxygen. Venus it WAY WAY too hot, hot enough to melt lead, even hotter than Mercury due to a runaway greenhouse effect, and also has almost no oxygen. There is no planet that we know of (yet) that can support plant or animal life like we have on Earth. Maybe one will be discovered in another star system some time in the future, but there is no such planet in our own solar system, other than Earth.
348137
if theres not i would be extreme surprised.  the universe is so huge that it would be ridiculos to assume or think there isnt.  even though we have only explored probably less then 1% of the universe we have still found planets that we think would be able to suport human life (remember not all life would have to be carbon based like us either) so even if there isnt a planet that we could live on some other type of creature might think its paradise.  the answer to your question is yes there is most likely life other then ours out there somewhere. although it would depend on what you mean by "life" if you mean intelligent life i still think yes there probably is although they have found fossils of bacteria on mars so technically that means there was at one point there was life in our solar system other then earth.
1092064
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this, but it takes a *lot* longer than a few hundred years (a few generations) to result in a new species.\n\nOn top of this, the environment for colonists on Mars would not be that radically different from the earth's environment.  Life support would have to maintain the same atmosphere, temperature, radiation, environments, the same food and water requirements etc.  Probably the main difference would be the much smaller gravity on Mars, which would badly deteriorate human muscles and skeletons unless some other measures were put into place.
197940
No, aliens are not living on Mars at the present time because the current conditions there could not support life. There is a possibility that life once existed there, based on evidence of previous existence of water. The "face" and "pyramids" that you're talking about on Mars are just glitches in the photography that have been proven to be incorrect.
274202
The temperature on Mars ranges from -140 C to 20 C (-220 F to 68 F) with the mean temperature being -63 C (-81.4 F).  While it may get mildly warm during the summer, Mars tends to be bitterly cold most of the time.
1097610
There is no longer life on mars so to answer your question, No.
118535
In theory it is absolutely possible. In reality, we haven't advanced science to the point where we can inhabit other planets. Currently there are plans to build an elevator that will allow people to enter space without spending months and months training their bodies to withstand the G's when exiting the atmosphere.\n\nThe current step to living on other planets is building a space station large enough to house multiple families, a small city or even refuel a ship. Currently right now travelling to Mars would take years and years. We would need a higher powered engine that uses less fuel and provides more thrust.
1078791
According to current accepted beliefs, there is no people in Mars, although there has been fossils of single celled organism.\n\nWe should stick to this, until we found any further information about living things in Mars.