Short answer: No. But to read the click-bait headlines circulating on the internet in the last couple of days, you'd think so. All you need to do is read NASA's own announcement -- just the first paragraph: NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in...
Mars
Martian Habitrails?
Anyone remember habitrails? They were those cool plastic tubes you could join together in vertical and horizontal "tracks" for pet hamsters and gerbils. I had a set as a kid. My hamster loved them. Unfortunately, they weren't cat proof. A childhood lesson in survival...
Those Pyramids on Mars
Like the face on Mars that wasn't really a face, the so-called pyramids on Mars aren't really artificially-made structures. I have friends who would insist they are, but I've never bought into the idea. Astronomer Stuart Robbins, the voice behind the PseudoAstronomy...
Ancient Aliens on Mars?
Ever wonder about the claims of Richard Hoagland and Mike Bara about ancient alien artifacts and structures on Mars? Well, if you have, here's the antidote, in detail, from the Emoluments on Mars blog. (This blog is filled with other pages painstakingly debunking this...
Mars, the Moon, Planet X, and Wacky ET Theories: Exposing Pseudo-Astronomy
I've occasionally blogged about Stuart Robbins' podcast, Exposing PseudoAstronomy. Stuart has invited me for an interview. It will take place in November, but I'll let you all know when he actually posts it. Stuart has done excellent (and time-consuming) work exposing...
Are We All Martians?
This notion has been around for a long time. I remember hearing Richard Hoagland say it many times on Coast to Coast AM. But now we have "science" (goofy face here) intervening. It was also a sub-plotline in The Facade. The Mysterious Universe blog recently posted an...
Are We Martians? New Tool for Investigating that Idea Noticeably Hedges its Panspermia Bet
I just read this piece from the space.com website: "Are Earthlings from Mars?" The post begins this way: It's possible that the family tree of all life on Earth has its roots on Mars — and a new device could put that theory to the test in a few years, researchers say....
BioStation Alpha: Amateur Astronomer Discovers Artificial Structure on Mars?
[[UPDATE: There's now a fifth alternative interpretation -- one not listed below. Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona, postulates that, "It looks like a linear streak artifact produced by a cosmic ray,"...
Theists in Favor of Directed Panspermia?
Yes, this is possible. One could believe that life on earth came from space and that there was an intelligence behind that process / mechanism. One need not have space aliens as the intelligence. In the same way theistic evolutionists argue "God was in the process...