life on Mars?

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Doubt certainly cast, but the article does raise one interesting issue. Life does exist on Earth in some damn awful places, and if thats possible, then life on mars isnt outside the boundaries of possibility. Theres also the continuing issue with space exploration.. we as a species havent explored much of this world at all, so a smattering of unmanned probes inst exactly the most thorough of systems. Someone once said, if you dropped a Viking explorer into Death Valley, or Siberia, or the Gobi you would have a damned hard time proving that the planet was inhabited by much of anything at all.

Well, yes. I wasn't using the article to substantiate what I said about doubt being cast on the bacteria that were claimed to have been found in that meteorite, but to broaden the discussion regarding the types of life that could exist. Related to that, I was watching something on TV that described how researchers had taken some "extremophile" organisms and subjected them to temperatures, pressures, carbon dioxide levels and UV levels that exist on Mars. Several of these were able to survive (so they said), although they did need water, something not apparently abundant on the planet. However, there is evidence of some water in the form of ice at the poles, and the possibility of more extensive underground sources at lower latitudes, from what i understand. There's also evidence of geologically-recent water flow on the surface in some areas.

Anyway, all fascinating stuff.

I know a guy who attends MIT (a prestigious college). He did a report on how they could colonize mars, but I asked him about it and he said it wouldn't work for. For one thing, there was no magnetic field or tectonic movement. He also said solar winds would destroy the plants he intended to use.

No planet should be outside the bounds of possibility, evolution will give a species what it needs to survive in it's atmosphere. What might not be survivable to us might be survivable to something else, and what might be survivable to something else in turn, might not be survivable to us. Basically we have no way of knowing anything until we witness it ourselves (as a species). it's just fun to speculate what could be out there. But ultimately I still fall back on the argument that here on earth we've got sea creatures and land creatures. A sea creature can't survive on land, and a land creature can't survive under water.
For all we know intelligent life could exist breathing methane clouds that would destroy humans. We also don't necessarily know that intelligent life necessarily walks upright. There could be an intelligent race of squid-like creatures somewhere who use their tentacles to grasp things.

The possibilities are endless

If bad photography is we need to make life, lets go to white sands Nevada and pick some giant mushrooms.

ive also see those photos on mars. very real like. im almost convinced aswell that mars once had inhabitants