Martian soil may contain life, ...or maybe not |
Martian soil may contain life, ...or maybe not |
 Aug 23 2007, 09:27 PM
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 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. -------------------- |
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Aug 28 2007, 02:41 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Interesting speculations, oDoug.
Beginning to think that the next Flagship to Mars (after MSL) needs to be chock full o' microscopes & culture solutions, from straight optical all the way down to a miniaturized SEM. Let's settle this once and for all. If there is Martian microbial life, and if its either extremophilic in a way that's hard for us to encourage growth and/or is significantly different from terrestrial life biochemically, then direct detection of individual bugs rather than indirect chemical analyses of candidate biological byproducts seems like the only possible strategy to avoid these "ifs". -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 29 2007, 07:18 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (nprev @ Aug 28 2007, 03:41 PM)  culture solutions So you don't like Joop's theory then  Doug |
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Aug 30 2007, 12:17 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 29 2007, 12:18 AM) So you don't like Joop's theory then Doug Well, I figure that any bugs of that particular ilk would probably do a LOT of moving when the water hits them before they go to that Great Extreme Environment in the Sky, where H2O2 properly mixed in an exact ratio with H2O flows like, uh...water, without boiling away...better have a nice, fast real-time imager... 
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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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 mchan QUOTE (nprev @ Aug 28 2007, 07:41 AM) Beg... Aug 29 2007, 03:48 AM 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 AlexBlackwell QUOTE (djellison @ Aug 29 2007, 03:28 AM)... Aug 29 2007, 05:47 PM dvandorn QUOTE (AlexBlackwell @ Aug 29 2007, 12:47... Aug 30 2007, 02:30 AM 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!
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