{"id":10205,"date":"2019-10-05T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10205"},"modified":"2019-11-03T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T00:05:03","slug":"no-yes-maybe-dead-or-alive-regardless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/05\/no-yes-maybe-dead-or-alive-regardless\/","title":{"rendered":"No. Yes. Maybe. Dead or Alive, regardless."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from NBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We may be closing in on the discovery of alien life. Are we prepared?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

New robotic craft bound for Mars should give us our best shot at finding life on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet. NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Seth Shostak<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the next decade or so, it\u2019s entirely possible that you\u2019ll see a headline announcing that NASA has found evidence of life in space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would that news cause you to run screaming into the street? An article that appeared recently in Britain\u2019s Sunday Telegraph hints that Jim Green, the director of NASA\u2019s Planetary Science Division, thinks\u00a0the public might be discombobulated<\/a>\u00a0by the discovery of biology beyond the bounds of our own planet. But that\u2019s not really what Green believes. He\u2019s concerned that we haven\u2019t thought much about the next steps by scientists, should we suddenly confront the reality of Martian life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the backstory: In 2020, Mars and Earth will once again be relatively close to each other in their adjacent orbits around the sun. To take advantage of this fortuitous orbital circumstance, space agencies will be\u00a0lobbing a small brigade of spacecraft toward the Red Planet<\/a>. Unlike the robotic explorers now prowling Mars\u2019 dusty landscapes, these new craft \u2014 launched by both NASA and a European-Russian collaboration \u2014 will be engaged in a type of reconnaissance that hasn\u2019t been tried since NASA\u2019s Viking landers set down there in the mid-1970s. The new craft will go beyond merely scouting for locations that were once suitable for life. They\u2019ll be on the hunt for life itself. Dead or alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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