Re: Vox - Why scientists really want to know if there was ever life on Mars

In alt.astronomy a425couple <[email protected]> wrote:
> from
> https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2022/6/29/23171032/mars-nasa-perserverance-search-for-life-luca
> 
> Why scientists really, really want to know if there was ever life on Mars
> If there was life on Mars billions of years ago - even just microbial 
> life - it could change our understanding of how life begins.
> 
> By Brian Resnick@[email protected]  Jun 29, 2022, 1:00pm EDT
...

Note the doublethink.
Life on earth was here billions of years ago and despite planet-killing
asteroid strikes and other major disasters is still around.

But life on Mars is all safely dead and in the past.

If history has taught us anything it's that a slew of phds are gunna
be based on overturning the relevant "everyone knows that X".

-- 
Months like:	     Avg E-Mars dist   Av #UFO sgt. Power law
                         (AU)          (NUFORC)
2003.62                  0.385998        636.3      555.434
2020.79                  0.437594      618.291      545.601
2020.88                  0.530053      609.324      530.912
2014.29                  0.608519      481.058      520.579
2020.54                  0.690655      429.941      511.278*
2020.96                  0.770661      575.772      503.361
2018.88                  0.844598      422.054      496.838*
2008.12                  0.903603      370.14       492.084*
2020.46                   0.95391      472.705      488.303
2021.04                   1.0628       497.988      480.846
2018.96                   1.17668      497.558      473.927
2018.21                   1.27404      555.163      468.593*
2021.12                   1.36315      414.442      464.105
2014.71                   1.45549      447.137      459.794
2020.21                   1.55687      480.729      455.407
2021.21                   1.62066      467.944      452.811
2019.12                   1.68755      357.909      450.211*
2017.04                   1.74136          334      448.203**
2020.12                   1.79477      436.775      446.279
2007.29                   1.84762      537.504      444.439*
2021.29                   1.90453      486.426      442.524
1989.29                   1.9588       450.712      440.757
2015.04                   2.02089      442.901      438.803
2021.38                   2.11625      432.673      435.932
2015.12                   2.17672      408.848      434.187
2013.71                   2.23069      428.214      432.675
2021.46                   2.32364      383.788      430.168
2015.71                   2.40661      402.214      428.024
2021.54                   2.48216      524.126      426.145*
2019.71                   2.64152      556.852      422.386*

MODEL:
y = 485.034 * x^-0.142377
T-test: P(beta<0) = 0.996146
Rank test: Spearman corr = -0.355284
	critical value = 0.306 2-sided at 5%; reject H0:not_connected
r2 = 0.227