Re: Mineral analysis may reveal life on Mars


"Chris" <nimbo@(no-spam)ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "George" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8534
>> Some evidence suggests Mars was warm and wet in its first hundred
>> million years, raising the possibility that it could have fostered life.
>> But neither of the two Viking landers found organic molecules when they
>> studied the planet's soil in the 1970s.
>>
> I was present in the lab when the viking signals arrived, one of the
> pyrollisis ovens did give a strong organic content in the chromatography
> experiment. Like it was a plant.
>
> Because this was so contentios and because the signal was only in one of
> 8, it was ignored as contamination. However there is no way of checking.
>
> I have heard that those probes that were lost did, in fact land
> succesfully and that they were primarily designed to look for life.
> These were said to be lost because of what was found.
>
> The west will no survive the discovery of exobiology and the only way for
> easy transision is to teach it in schools. At present people are being
> murderd over this concept as it means to christians the total collapse of
> their faith.
>
> I think in terms "If god made me immortal then I am". Perhaps we live on
> in gods memory. In fact because my natural death of heart disease is
> imminent I am very frightened and I'm not looking forward to it at all.
>
> Chris.

Sounds like you inhaled too much nitrous oxide in that lab, Chris.

George


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