BBC Focus Magazine

[Lateralman]

Calma down, calma down. Agreed. Let's not go there.

[...]

we are so terra biast, take a look around, everywhere on earth there is life, it sprouts out of the cracks in the pavement, it lives in boiling water in yosemite, if it can it does, we don't know what life is capable of, dont start reasoning, reason doesnt come into the equation, if it can it does, and thats all we know for sure right now......its life jim, but not as we know it....we just dont know, remove the blinkers and lets see what we find.

[Shadowwolf]

dont start reasoning, reason doesnt come into the equation

On the contrary, there is no way to arrive at a useful hypotheses without reason, it very much does come into the equation.

...everywhere on earth there is life, it sprouts out of the cracks in the pavement, it lives in boiling water in yosemite, if it can it does,

That's reasoning right there

[Lateralman]

There will be life in the underground subterranean world of Mars.

That is where all the water has gone.

The sponge people with the big long straws have drunk it all.

[MikeG]

. Some texts of historical interest I'm sure, doubt there would be anything scientifically worthwhile in there. Destruction is unfortunately not limited to that outfit, the victorious or totalitarian states will remove that they object to.

There probably isn't anything of scientific value in the sense that we have probably re-discovered whatever was hushed up then. Remember that we had already realized the world was round and had calculated its circumference back in antiquity. It was also known, even then, that the earth revolved around the sun. This knowledge was denied and covered up for hundreds of years. Even this seemingly trivial (by today's standards) information held up mans progress. I won't even bother to mention far more scientifically based discoveries, which were buried because they clashed with religious beliefs at the time.

[Shadowwolf]

And still they get in the way, stem cells for instance.

[MikeG]

Actually, I was thinking of the lost Stargate found in an Egyptian pyramid.