Mushrooms on Mars?

[cantdrv55]

Popular Mechanics article from today.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/amp36356445/mushrooms-on-mars-nasa-photos-life-on-mars/

[unclebilly]

That’s amazing should this prove to be true!

[fanaudical]

Neat!

[sc_rufctr]

Life? Not likely IMO... Thinking the effects of a volcanic past at some point on Mars.

[Noah930]

Wait 'til they figure out they were spores carried to the Red Planet by our spacecraft...

(Still, if they're able to grow on Mars, that's pretty neat.)

[onZedge]

Water at the poles.
Mushrooms in the sand.
We won't need to bring food when we go.

We can make soup!!

[Bill Douglas]

They may be mushrooms, but not as we know it.

DON'T eat them.

[Nostril Cheese]

If magic mushrooms grown here take you to Mars.....

[varmint]

Hopefully not. They’d declare mars a nature preserve and we’d never get to colonize.

[dewolf]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Life? Not likely IMO... Thinking the effects of a volcanic past at some point on Mars.

Extremophiles.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Humanity on et life finding us-"Gee, I sure hope they are friendly"

Humanity finds first life on other planet- "Can we eat/ smoke it?/get high off it?"

As much as I'm into science, i don't want to hear all the arguments that will ensue about protecting/vs studying stuff. Otherwise groovy if true

[wswartzwel]

Reminds of of a Bob Dylan tune.....

"But they used to grow food in Kansas
Now they grow it on the moon and eat it raw
I can see the day coming when even your home garden
Is gonna be against the law"

[ltusler]

Guess we'll have to bring some freeze dried steaks along.

[TimBer]

[thor66]

https://www.cnet.com/news/sorry-nasa-photos-are-not-evidence-of-fungus-growing-on-mars/

[stevej37]

Is Mars open for medical or recreational mushrooms?

[thor66]

not until e-lon gets there

[Bill Douglas]

When they open bars there they'll be able to call them Mars Bars.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

When they open bars there they'll be able to call them Mars Bars.

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by cantdrv55

Popular Mechanics article from today.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/amp36356445/mushrooms-on-mars-nasa-photos-life-on-mars/

From the article:

12 spheres emerging from beneath the soil, over a 3-day sequence.

Yep, most of the Earth's biomass is also beneath the surface.

Earth's Mysterious 'Deep Biosphere' Is Home to Millions of Undiscovered Species, Scientists Say
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/64272-carbon-mass-in-earth-deep-biosphere.html

In a statement that dubs Earth's deep biosphere a "subterranean Galapagos" waiting to be studied, DCO scientists estimate that the sheer biomass of carbon-based life lurking below our feet utterly dwarfs the amount of life roaming the Earth's surface. With about 17 billion to 25 billion tons of carbon (15 to 23 billion metric tonnes) under the planet's surface, DCO researchers estimate there is nearly 300 to 400 times as much carbon biomass underground (most of it still undiscovered) as there is in all the humans on Earth.

"Even in dark and energetically challenging conditions, intraterrestrial ecosystems have uniquely evolved and persisted over millions of years," Fumio Inagaki, a geomicrobiologist at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and DCO member, said in the statement . "Expanding our knowledge of deep life will inspire new insights into planetary habitability, leading us to understand why life emerged on our planet and whether life persists in the Martian subsurface and other celestial bodies."

Anyone recall the "Spore Drive" on the USS Discovery?

Mold is everywhere, just say'n.