She also said that hurricane names are 'too white'. (Embarrassing.)
Posted on 08/23/2007 9:20:12 AM PDT by LibWhacker
I for one welcome our new hydrogen peroxide microbial overlords.
Joop Houtkooper has discovered how to get increased funding.
Can you put the NOLA Beer Guy in there?
And nothing has evolved, huh? Hmmmm. :-)I see your smile there, but I'll take this opportunity to point out to those who would repeat your words seriously: nothing can evolve under the wracking rays of UV that such a thin atmosphere allows.
many knew the data was consistent with life, originally.
Yup. IIRC, he swore on his deathbed that the results of the tests firmly indicated life was there.
We may very well know absolutely in ten months or so when Phoenix sets down.
Consider how much data is arriving every day from scientific satellites. Much of it is available for the amateur to go over if he wants to download and do whatever analysis he chooses. So much data is already archived that it would keep doctoral candidates in astronomy loaded with possible dissertations for hundreds of years. The data is just sitting, maybe once looked at for a purpose and then filed.
Peroxide Powered!!!
Back a while before the present climate, Mars had an atmosphere and a magnetic field. Both are gone and life has also lost its niche if it ever was growing there.
Have we been able to communicate with these Aliens?
Last I heard Maars was a RED state.
Sure, but when are they going to start selling moon cheese?
If the H2O2 is frozen you can still pluck it with zircon-encrusted tweezers.
I’m actually convinced there is life there. There’s half a dozen lichens here that would find Mars absolutely tropical.
And some bacteria have dormant sporelike phases where they can remain viable, wouldn’t surprise me one bit if they could go on for centuries.
Certain types of frogs can dig a hole down into the mud and go dormant - I think I heard that some can go dormant for DECADES...
If we do find life there, the big question won’t be the biology so much, it will be is this something that arose here on Mars or is it something that hitched a ride on a chunk of Eearth that was blasted into space by cometary impact.
“...signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide “
has got to be a Dem.
Probably have an organized victim's group
Yep, I’m still amazed though. I had a friend who started his own statistical consulting business after grad school. Part of his pitch was to tell potential clients that he could tell them what their data were trying to tell them — which was true, but it also involved pulling a little bit of wool over the client’s eyes. No matter how sophisticated your analysis and how powerful your computers are, if you’re not looking for exactly the right thing, you’re going to miss it (or may miss it).
Yeah, I thought about that after I posted her name. I can’t believe people in that part of Texas are stupid enough to put her into office term after term.
We needs to re-edjumacate them thar folks what elects her.
And give up your dental floss ranch in Montana?
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Had a roommate that looked into buying a dental instrument manufacturer in Montana. Listened to that tune a few times during the negotiations.
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