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Martian soil may contain life, ...or maybe not

Stu View Member Profile	Aug 23 2007, 09:27 PM Post #1
The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60	Sounds like the presentation went down very well, congrats Doug! (well worth downloading the slides too everyone, by the way...) On a slightly different subject, wonder how many of you have come across this yet..? "Martian soil might contain life" Offered without comment or opinion, just wondered if anyone had seen it... reckon it'll be all over the news tomorrow. -------------------- Homepage Astropoetry "Cumbrian Sky" blog "Road to Endeavour" blog

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ddeerrff View Member Profile	Aug 23 2007, 09:52 PM Post #2
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: 19-April 05 Member No.: 251	From the DrudgeReport, unattributed: QUOTE "Martian soil may contain life Thu Aug 23 2007 11:30:10 ET The soil on Mars may contain microbial life! Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, will declare on Friday the Viking spacecraft may have found signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the subfreezing, arid Martian surface. His analysis of one of the experiments carried out by the Viking spacecraft suggests that 0.1 percent of the Martian soil could be of biological origin. That is roughly comparable to biomass levels found in some Antarctic permafrost, home to a range of hardy bacteria and lichen. Developing.... "

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Stu Martian soil may contain life Aug 23 2007, 09:27 PM

ddeerrff From the DrudgeReport, unattributed: QUOTE ... Aug 23 2007, 09:52 PM

nprev (sigh)...Yeah, I saw it, Stu; getting ready for a ... Aug 23 2007, 09:54 PM

ElkGroveDan Here's the Space.com article - a bit less sen... Aug 23 2007, 09:57 PM

nprev QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Aug 23 2007, 02:57 P... Aug 24 2007, 12:20 AM

djellison Space.com article also a little bit bogus... ... Aug 23 2007, 10:37 PM

nprev QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 23 2007, 03:37 PM)... Aug 24 2007, 12:39 AM

AlexBlackwell I remember mentioning this work a couple of months... Aug 23 2007, 11:49 PM

Gray Doug, That was a well-written report of the Joop p... Aug 24 2007, 07:30 PM

nprev Yes. Excellent work, Doug, respectful in tone yet ... Aug 24 2007, 10:21 PM

helvick Agree 100% with nprev there - Doug's question ... Aug 25 2007, 07:41 AM

atomoid QUOTE (helvick @ Aug 25 2007, 12:41 AM) .... Aug 25 2007, 07:03 PM

marsbug QUOTE (helvick @ Aug 25 2007, 08:41 AM) ... Aug 28 2007, 12:50 PM

djellison If there's a graph that shows the behaviour of... Aug 28 2007, 01:03 PM

dvandorn Remember, though, that we may be talking about rea... Aug 28 2007, 01:32 PM

nprev Interesting speculations, oDoug. Beginning to th... Aug 28 2007, 02:41 PM

mchan QUOTE (nprev @ Aug 28 2007, 07:41 AM) Beg... Aug 29 2007, 03:48 AM

djellison QUOTE (nprev @ Aug 28 2007, 03:41 PM) cul... Aug 29 2007, 07:18 AM

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marsbug My thinking exactly nprev. It's an interesti... Aug 28 2007, 03:12 PM

nprev That's the thing, though. The VL results have ... Aug 28 2007, 03:41 PM

SpaceListener The true evidence of some kind of living is that i... Aug 29 2007, 04:27 AM

AndyG I don't like today's Space Daily's rep... Aug 29 2007, 01:14 PM

djellison That's not a report. When SpaceDaily say ... Aug 29 2007, 01:28 PM

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ElkGroveDan QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 29 2007, 06:30 PM) ... Aug 30 2007, 03:00 AM

AlexBlackwell QUOTE (dvandorn @ Aug 29 2007, 04:30 PM) ... Aug 30 2007, 05:18 PM

dvandorn Oh, present company excepted, of course! ... Aug 30 2007, 04:06 AM

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