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Posted on 08/23/2007 9:20:12 AM PDT by LibWhacker
I’m going to Mars to be a hydrogen peroxide rancher. We’ll crush the Listerine brand with our super-cheap mouthwash. The only problem will be shipping costs. Well, the shipping costs and the destruction of all existing life on earth by hydrogen peroxide based lifeforms overrunning the planet.
Cross contamination from asteroids hitting the earth and the material landing on Mars.
Could be. Could also be old news. What we ought to wonder about is that Mars has no magnetic field of any consequence yet Mars rock has preferred magnetism directions as if Mars had a magnetic field once as it had an atmosphere once. If planetary magnetism is due to the core as is claimed for earth, where did Mars’ magnetic field go? We can discuss Jupiter and the sun.
Viking 1 was launched on August 20, 1975 and arrived at Mars on June 19, 1976. The first month of orbit was devoted to imaging the surface to find appropriate landing sites for the Viking Landers. On July 20, 1976 the Viking 1 Lander separated from the Orbiter and touched down at Chryse Planitia (22.48° N, 49.97° W planetographic, 1.5 km below the datum (6.1 mbar) elevation). Viking 2 was launched September 9, 1975 and entered Mars orbit on August 7, 1976. The Viking 2 Lander touched down at Utopia Planitia (47.97° N, 225.74° W, 3 km below the datum elevation) on September 3, 1976.
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Yep, they’re still looking at the data though. This wouldn’t be the first time someone has announced the data support life on Mars. The guy (can’t remember his name right now) who designed the experiment where they heated up soil samples and looked at the gases that were given off, always thought it proved there was life on Mars.
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Does that mean poop?
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So basically darling, you've found a blond on ice. Sounds like a Hugh Hefner party to me.
No. That is where the astronauts planted the American flag, according to Rep. Cynthia McKinney.
The Indians, aka Native Americans, Original Settlers, etc.,refer to these craft that deliver stinging bite-like wounds as "No-see-ums."
If true, COOL!
The two probes sent in the 70s. Amazing, but they are still looking at (and reinterpreting) the data.
As no such hydrogen peroxide life forms exist on Earth nor appear to have ever existed here, proof of such Mars based life would be evidence that life is common in the rest of the universe. It would probably take a return mission with a intact samples on board to truly prove the existence of such an exotic form of life.
Horta poo
Those Germans know their poop.
Man, that brings back some memories. My father was working for NASA Langley during the time of Viking, and he was sent out to Pasadena for two weeks to troubleshoot the imager for V1. I have a photo taken by the actual Viking 1 camera of the JPL parking lot. My father also says that somewhere out there is a photo consisting of a landscape with three images of Carl Sagan, after he stood still for one part of the panoramic image, then ran over to the middle of the shot and stood still, then ran over to the far end of the view. The camera panned so slowly, taking one vertical strip at a time, that he was able to show up three times in the same shot.
“I’m going to Mars to be a hydrogen peroxide rancher.”
And give up your dental floss ranch in Montana?
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