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Formaldehyde Too ? |
| Guest_Sunspot_* |
 Feb 16 2005, 09:20 PM
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7014
A leading European Space Agency scientist says he has found a gas in the Martian atmosphere that he believes can only be explained by the presence of life. But the few researchers who have been privy to the facts say that such a conclusion is premature. |
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Feb 18 2005, 05:36 PM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 11-February 04 Member No.: 22 |
This is being retracted, or something... see
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/feb/H...mars_claim.html -Bryan |
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Feb 18 2005, 05:56 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
Darn, no Martians yet............
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Feb 18 2005, 06:27 PM
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No, that's a rebuttal to an online article that appeared at space.com. The New Scientist article referrs to work by Vittorio Formisano to be presented at a conference in the Netherlands next week.
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Feb 24 2005, 08:36 AM
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Strange. The dutch program 'twee vandaag' interviewed Vittorio Formisano, but don't ask how. Before it even began some ESA representative storms in and demanded that it be made clear that Formisano's views are not ESA's.
Watch it ( it's in dutch, but the interview itself is in english ): low quality: http://www.tweevandaag.com/call.php?module...18808&vtype=rnb high quality: http://www.tweevandaag.com/call.php?module...18808&vtype=rwb |
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Feb 24 2005, 10:30 AM
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I watched it, and the sequence of events is weird.
At some point I think Formisano threatens not to speak on Friday (I suppose he is referring to a schedulled ESA interview ?) if he is not allowed to speak to the reporter ? There is tension in the air  It seems obvious, also taking into account the change of Formisano's poster title a while back, that ESA would like him to be a little more cautious and conservative in his views. I find it encouraging that he stands on his story firmly. |
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Feb 24 2005, 12:27 PM
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So Vittorio Formisano's prenstation is on Friday 25th Feb then? I wondered why we hadn't heard much about it yet.
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Feb 24 2005, 01:40 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 468 Joined: 11-February 04 From: USA Member No.: 21 |
QUOTE (Sunspot @ Feb 24 2005, 12:27 PM) So Vittorio Formisano's prenstation is on Friday 25th Feb then? I wondered why we hadn't heard much about it yet. According to the program(me) at : http://www.congrex.nl/05C05/programme.html "Methane, formaldehyde and water by PFS, V. Formisano" is today as a part of the exobiology session. |
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Mar 14 2005, 06:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 24-November 04 From: Heraklion, GR. Member No.: 112 |
1st Mars Express Conference Presentations
A lot of the full presentations are available now in PDF (not the abstracts). Formizano's is interesting  Methane formaldehyde and water by PFS: V. Formisano |
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