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My vote is the images are also consistent with some sort of seasonal subsurface brine squishing out and about. And fungi are genetically very complex compared t
by tejtm 5y ago
My vote is the images are also consistent with some sort of seasonal subsurface brine squishing out and about.
And fungi are genetically very complex compared to what Occam is apt to offer first.
- TheAdamAndChe 5y agoCurrent evidence shows that Mars was habitable and had a lot of water for billions of years. It was only after their magnetosphere disappeared that their atmosphere got stripped away from solar winds. I could easily see complex forms of live adapting and surviving from that time. We also assume that the 'fungus' seen here has any genetic similarity to fungus on Earth. It could be quite different, only seeming similar because of convergent evolution[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
- mseepgood 5y ago> And fungi are genetically very complex compared to what Occam is apt to offer first. They would probably not be the beginning of life on Mars, but the last to turn off the light.
- tejtm 5y agothat is fair conjecture, Myself, I would expect the life stack to unwind to back to primitive on the way to the off switch.