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Mars too Salty for Life?, The end of the dream?
abalone
post Feb 16 2008, 12:46 AM
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/16/2164485.htm
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/200.../15/668749.aspx
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- abalone   Mars too Salty for Life?   Feb 16 2008, 12:46 AM
- - djellison   and http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pr.../...   Feb 16 2008, 12:56 AM
- - nprev   All the more reason to search aggressively for any...   Feb 16 2008, 01:06 AM
- - JRehling   I used to eat a lot of salt and vinegar potato chi...   Feb 16 2008, 01:14 AM
|- - dburt   QUOTE (JRehling @ Feb 15 2008, 06:14 PM) ...   Feb 16 2008, 05:47 AM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (dburt @ Feb 15 2008, 09:47 PM) Agr...   Feb 16 2008, 11:17 PM
- - nprev   Yeah, I was actually thinking something very like ...   Feb 16 2008, 01:56 AM
|- - brellis   99 days till Phoenix lands - maybe she'll show...   Feb 16 2008, 02:21 AM
- - nprev   I'm confident enough to say yes, if for no oth...   Feb 16 2008, 03:29 AM
- - mike   Mars too salty for life as we know it, maybe..   Feb 16 2008, 07:11 AM
|- - abalone   QUOTE (mike @ Feb 16 2008, 06:11 PM) Mars...   Feb 16 2008, 09:26 AM
- - Bill Harris   Balderdash. Life always has a way. On Earth we h...   Feb 16 2008, 11:57 AM
|- - ugordan   Yes, but did life actually begin in such extreme e...   Feb 16 2008, 01:46 PM
- - Stu   Here in the UK the BBC is announcing this as ...   Feb 16 2008, 01:57 PM
- - abalone   I feel a theory coming on... Maybe high acid on Ma...   Feb 16 2008, 02:15 PM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (abalone @ Feb 16 2008, 10:15 AM) M...   Feb 16 2008, 09:30 PM
|- - Stephen   QUOTE (abalone @ Feb 17 2008, 01:15 AM) M...   Feb 17 2008, 07:17 AM
||- - abalone   QUOTE (Stephen @ Feb 17 2008, 06:17 PM) W...   Feb 17 2008, 01:18 PM
|- - dburt   QUOTE (abalone @ Feb 16 2008, 07:15 AM) I...   Feb 18 2008, 11:31 PM
- - Stu   "Nasa's Mars rovers - Opportunity and its...   Feb 16 2008, 09:42 PM
|- - ugordan   No, they don't. A fact we're reminded of e...   Feb 16 2008, 09:52 PM
- - Aussie   Volcanism + liquid water = acid - no matter what t...   Feb 17 2008, 11:08 AM
|- - abalone   QUOTE (Aussie @ Feb 17 2008, 10:08 PM) Vo...   Feb 17 2008, 01:30 PM
- - Bill Harris   QUOTE (ugordan @ Feb 16 2008, 07:46 AM) Y...   Feb 17 2008, 08:22 PM
- - dvandorn   I will point out that, at least according to a lot...   Feb 17 2008, 08:51 PM
|- - JRehling   Yes, we could consider, in an un-chauvinistic mome...   Feb 17 2008, 09:58 PM
|- - tty   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 17 2008, 09:51 PM) ...   Feb 18 2008, 07:04 AM
- - nprev   Just to clear the table a bit, here: do we definit...   Feb 18 2008, 07:30 AM
- - marsbug   I'm hoping to read the paper before I form any...   Feb 18 2008, 12:54 PM
|- - AndyG   Reflecting back to Mars James Lovelock's Gaia ...   Feb 18 2008, 02:35 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   My take on this is that whenever "experts...   Feb 18 2008, 05:46 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Feb 18 2008, 09:46 A...   Feb 19 2008, 12:23 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (JRehling @ Feb 18 2008, 04:23 PM) ...   Feb 19 2008, 12:37 AM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (JRehling @ Feb 18 2008, 04:23 PM) ...   Feb 19 2008, 03:07 AM
- - PhilCo126   Well, there's something called extremophiles.....   Feb 18 2008, 06:12 PM
- - nprev   Think the core issue is whether life could have ev...   Feb 18 2008, 06:26 PM
- - centsworth_II   Keep in mind, we still don't know how life aro...   Feb 18 2008, 06:32 PM
- - Stu   Well, I've had salt on my chips for years, and...   Feb 18 2008, 06:40 PM
- - nprev   Centsworth, that's an excellent point. The onl...   Feb 18 2008, 06:54 PM
- - Shaka   Even as we speak, Oppy is parked 473 meters above ...   Feb 19 2008, 12:22 AM
- - Aussie   Truly when we cannot seem to agree on a definition...   Feb 19 2008, 08:31 AM
|- - Juramike   QUOTE (Aussie @ Feb 19 2008, 04:31 AM) Tr...   Feb 21 2008, 01:00 AM
- - Greg Hullender   It's always hard to do meaningful statistics f...   Feb 21 2008, 05:37 AM
|- - AndyG   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Feb 21 2008, 05:3...   Feb 21 2008, 10:32 AM
||- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (AndyG @ Feb 21 2008, 02:32 AM) I w...   Feb 21 2008, 05:02 PM
|||- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Feb 21 2008, 12:0...   Feb 21 2008, 05:53 PM
||- - JRehling   QUOTE (AndyG @ Feb 21 2008, 02:32 AM) I w...   Feb 23 2008, 01:32 AM
|- - Aussie   [quote name='Greg Hullender' date='Feb...   Feb 22 2008, 10:56 AM
- - centsworth_II   The 3 or 4 billion year span from single cell to m...   Feb 21 2008, 04:34 PM
- - dvandorn   I think y'all might be amazed at how quickly, ...   Feb 22 2008, 06:14 AM
|- - leustek   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Feb 22 2008, 01:14 AM) ...   Feb 23 2008, 01:12 AM
- - centsworth_II   Life on Earth is not a single data point. It is a...   Feb 22 2008, 04:06 PM
- - fredk   I'd say you've pretty much got it right, J...   Feb 23 2008, 04:26 PM
- - centsworth_II   The probability of two bodies in a solar system e...   Feb 23 2008, 05:47 PM
|- - brellis   Life looks possible on many bodies in our solar sy...   Feb 23 2008, 07:01 PM
||- - nprev   QUOTE (brellis @ Feb 23 2008, 11:01 AM) L...   Feb 24 2008, 08:47 AM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Feb 23 2008, 09:47...   Feb 23 2008, 09:36 PM
- - fredk   Back to the news that began this thread, on this p...   Feb 23 2008, 08:39 PM
- - Reckless   Hi I must be missing something but aren't sal...   Feb 23 2008, 09:24 PM
|- - dburt   QUOTE (Reckless @ Feb 23 2008, 02:24 PM) ...   Feb 25 2008, 06:36 AM
- - centsworth_II   Where's the mission to pinpoint methane ...   Feb 24 2008, 05:52 PM
- - djellison   It was one of the ones for the next round of Mars ...   Feb 24 2008, 06:27 PM
- - centsworth_II   If MARVEL flies in 2013 and sends back very intrig...   Feb 24 2008, 07:20 PM
- - vjkane   MARVEL is not in the running. The Great Escape pr...   Feb 24 2008, 08:10 PM
|- - vjkane   Oh, and I forgot to add to my previous post that I...   Feb 24 2008, 08:12 PM
- - centsworth_II   I really liked the following description of what M...   Feb 25 2008, 06:50 AM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Feb 25 2008, 06:50...   Feb 25 2008, 04:37 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (vjkane @ Feb 25 2008, 11:37 AM) NA...   Feb 25 2008, 05:37 PM
- - nprev   Would a dedicated mission for such a search be nec...   Feb 25 2008, 07:16 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (nprev @ Feb 25 2008, 02:16 PM) Wou...   Feb 25 2008, 07:28 PM
- - edstrick   The methane levels are low and the signal is weak....   Feb 26 2008, 08:16 AM
- - brellis   How did the famous martian meteor ALH48001 registe...   Mar 16 2008, 05:43 PM

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