XPost: sci.skeptic, alt.paranormal, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.alien.research   
   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   Okay I did the Google thing and apparently the   
   bacterial life we're so familiar with, here on Earth,   
   typically ranges from 1 to 10 microns in size. And,   
   the famous "Fossil-looking" structures found within   
   the Mars Rock maxed out at maybe 2 microns in size.   
      
   That was them at their biggest.   
      
   But, NASA's $2.5 billion dollar Curiosity rover, whose   
   entire mission can be summed up as "Searching for Life"   
   can't image anything smaller than 12.5 microns!   
      
   Get it? The machine sent to Mars to search for life   
   can't even see bacterial life as we know it here on the   
   Earth!   
      
   Most of it, anyway.   
      
   When what we know is bacterial life usually maxes out   
   at 10 microns, and what we think /May/ be Mars life   
   fossilized in a rock maxes out at 2 microns, they   
   built Curiosity so it can't see down further than 12.5   
   microns.   
      
   IT'S OFF BY 2.5 MICRONS FOR MOST OF EARTH LIFE,   
   PERHAPS MORE THAN 10.5 MICRONS FOR MARS LIFE, going   
   by the famous "Mars Rock" meteorite...   
      
   So them's the facts, according to the Google, searching   
   online sources.   
      
   The facts suggests a few possibilities here, not all of   
   them equal in probability...   
      
   #1.   
   They don't want to find life on Mars.   
      
   There are many who don't. Some even believe it would   
   be horribly disruptive to human society -- proof of   
   life on other worlds. Then again, some believed that   
   Gilligan's Island & I Love Lucy were real, so there's   
   no accounting for beliefs. But it is a fact that there   
   is a school of thought that life on other worlds,   
   knowledge thereof, could be very disruptive to human   
   society.   
      
   #2.   
   They've already found it.   
      
   For all we know there's libraries of data, terabytes of   
   images and countless scientific papers all confirming   
   life on Mars, and the instrumentation is looking for   
   something else.   
      
   That famous Mars Rock I keep talking about, for   
   example? Maybe it was conclusively shown to contain   
   fossilized life, as there is testing that is claimed to   
   be definitive in such matters. Or at least it was   
   definitive until it was actually performed on the Mars   
   Rock and confirmed "Life." This really happened. The   
   definitive test that was fool-proof in identifying   
   fossilized life from natural rock suddenly stopped   
   being definitive the moment it returned a positive on   
   the Mars Rock. But maybe it didn't... didn't stop being   
   definitive. Maybe it convinced NASA and the experts so   
   they aren't looking for such proof anymore.   
      
   Maybe they're looking for something else.   
      
   Maybe NASA isn't looking for life on Mars now, maybe   
   they're looking for larger and/or more complex life forms.   
   Maybe they're looking for multicellular, complex life   
   forms. Or...   
      
   Or, combined with #1 (above), they know exactly what the   
   life on Mars looks like and they're trying to avoid it!   
      
   The above rephrased...   
      
   Think of this: Experiments/instrumentation are engineered   
   to tell NASA things it doesn't know. So if there's   
   something obvious that they're missing -- like lenses that   
   can see life as we know it to exist in the case of Bacteria   
   -- then maybe it's because such images could not tell NASA   
   anything that they don't already know, or want to know.   
      
   #3.   
   Earth contamination   
      
   Maybe the possibility of earth contamination is so strong,   
   from all the probes and whatnot, that 12.5 microns is the   
   absolute smallest they can confidently go without the fear   
   of "Detecting" earth contamination. (See #2, above)   
      
   Finding macroscopic life would rule out human   
   contamination, as there's been about 60 years where we   
   have potentially been contaminating Mars. That just doesn't   
   seem long enough for microscopic contamination to evolve   
   into anything larger and more complex. And if we fond some   
   pretty big fossilized life forms, and it's old enough, it   
   could potentially rule out any flavor of Panspermia seeding   
   Mars with life from the Earth or elsewhere. Thus...   
      
   If you think there's life but want to rule out human   
   contamination, or even some flavor of Panspermia where   
   life jumps from the Earth to Mars, the older, the larger and   
   more complex the life is, the better.   
      
   #4.   
   They're lying   
      
   Okay so maybe they're not stupid, maybe they're not   
   paranoid and maybe, just maybe they don't have proof   
   positive of life on Mars but they are certain that they'd   
   want to control all the information if they do find it.   
   So, they lie to us. They did include instruments that can   
   image bacterial life as we know it, perhaps even bacterial   
   life as the Mars Rock might contain, but they lied because   
   their job is to do the science, collect the data and leave   
   it to the elected officials to decide when & if that data   
   will be released. NASA, after all, exists to carry out   
   government policy. It does not make government policy.   
      
   Elected Officials = Make policy   
      
   NASA = Carries out policy   
      
   So they lie to us. They hide the fact that they're capable   
   of detecting bacterial life so in the event they do detect   
   it they can better keep it a a secret unless & until the   
   elected officials decide to announce it.   
      
      
      
   Four explanations, not all of equal likelihood.   
      
      
      
   (Repost from 2022)   
      
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