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2018-06-08 Science & Technology

NASA rover data shows Mars had ingredients needed for life

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Posted by Fred 2018-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 What is the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12?

Posted by Chuckles Grimp5700 2018-06-08 01:20|| 2018-06-08 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 This might not help much, Grimp old man, as carbon-14 to carbon-12 ratios are only good for dating for the last 40,000 years, and not the 3.6-2.8 billion years for the finds mentioned in the article.

The ratio of normal carbon (carbon-12) to carbon-14 in the air and in all living things at any given time is nearly constant. Maybe one in a trillion carbon atoms are carbon-14. Both Carbon-12 and Carbon-13 are stable, but Carbon-14 decays by very weak beta decay to nitrogen-14 with a half-life of approximately 5,730 years. After the organism dies it stops taking in new carbon.

Posted by Fairbanks 2018-06-08 02:51|| 2018-06-08 02:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Carbon 12-13-14 ratios are different for diamonds on the moon and diamonds on the earth.

I guess what I am saying is each heavenly body has different ratios for sometimes different reasons. Its too early to use carbon isotope ratios to infer anything on Mars.

Posted by 3dc 2018-06-08 04:01|| 2018-06-08 04:01|| Front Page Top

#4 But they see "livable planets" light years away. "...billions and billions..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-08 08:08|| 2018-06-08 08:08|| Front Page Top

#5 But they see "livable planets" light years away

I suggest that the Beltway crowd embark on a voyage to visit them to be sure, then.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-06-08 11:46|| 2018-06-08 11:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Fairbanks,
Carbon-12 to carbon-13 then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCVnRIP3pIk

Posted by Spats Craish3482 2018-06-08 17:19|| 2018-06-08 17:19|| Front Page Top

#7 I'll get excited when the release the unphotoshopped satellite photos.

Posted by Woodrow 2018-06-08 17:39|| 2018-06-08 17:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Ant hillls pls. Just a simple foto of the ant hills.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-08 18:38|| 2018-06-08 18:38|| Front Page Top

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