Posted on 08/23/2007 9:20:12 AM PDT by LibWhacker
The soil on Mars may contain microbial life!
Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, will declare on Friday the Viking spacecraft may have found signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the subfreezing, arid Martian surface.
His analysis of one of the experiments carried out by the Viking spacecraft suggests that 0.1 percent of the Martian soil could be of biological origin.
That is roughly comparable to biomass levels found in some Antarctic permafrost, home to a range of hardy bacteria and lichen.
Developing....
“She also said that hurricane names are ‘too white’. (Embarrassing.)”
No, what’s really embarrassing is that there are Americans that will elect such idiots to be their representatives. A representative form of government ensures that you get the kind of government you deserve.
Will Hillary Pander for the Martian Vote?
Or will ACORN just send in thier absentee ballots?
UGGGG!!!! MY EYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS!!
I just finished eating lunch and had to see that.
Drudge says it's "Breaking"?
I knew I heard it about it with in the past year.
Here's a page with a podcast of it from January, 2007. It's from a weekly Canadian science radio show called Quirks & Quarks.
The interview was with a prof from Washington State U. There are some links to related materials from the interview.
Bad things tend to happen when you try to store peroxide in a silver container.
There is no life on Mars or anywhere else. We are alone, get used to it “scientists”.
This is of interest I believe...The Viking Labeled Release Experiment and Life on MarsMany hypotheses have been advanced and tested in attempts to account for the well-characterized activity detected in the surface material of Mars by the LR experiment. As shown above, these hypotheses have themselves been found wanting. The demonstrated success of the LR and the exquisite sensitivity with which it has detected microorganisms during its extensive test program with its record of no false positives can no longer be denied. No non-biological approach published, or known to the author, has duplicated the LR Mars data. Some laboratory experiments have produced positive responses, but the detailed thermal sensitivity exhibited by the variety of controls conducted on Mars has remained elusive in all such tests compatible with martian conditions. On the other hand, a combination of known properties of microorganisms, perhaps even those possessed by single species, could reproduce all aspects of the LR data. The biological interpretation of the Mars LR results is left standing alone. Recent discoveries of life forms thriving in extraordinarily severe environments on Earth strongly indicate that any alien organisms arriving on Mars might well and widely adapt to their new home. Application of the scientific principle leads to a conclusion: the Viking LR experiment detected living microorganisms in the soil of Mars.
by Gilbert V. Levin
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Well, then it's a big waste of space, isn't it?
Oh, forgot to mention, in before the moron arrives to put “callingartbell” in the keywords.
Image taken from the Viking Lander, just released to the public:
Mark
Wow, bet they bubble up when poured on a wound.
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The entire race is blond. Bottle blond.
The fact that I can find more life in a teaspoon of pond scum than NASA has found in 50 years of exploring space says something about how special the Earth is.
The most important question is how we can use it to make a pack of money without some Mars Rights Activist claiming we’re exploiting the natives.
Good enough place to bump this cool thread.
By the way, perhaps the SubQuantum Kinetic theory addresses this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884938/posts
Prediction No. 9 (1983): In chapter 3 of his dissertation, LaViolette proposed that geomagnetic reversals are induced by solar cosmic ray storms. He proposed that at times when invading cosmic dust causes the Sun to become very active and engage in continual flaring activity, major solar outbursts could occur that are a thousand times more intense than those currently observed. Further he proposed that solar cosmic rays from such a mega flare could impact the Earth’s magnetosphere, become trapped there to form storm-time radiation belts, and generate an equatorial ring current producing a magnetic field opposed to the Earth’s. If sufficiently intense, this ring current magnetic field could cancel out the Earth’s own field and flip the residual magnetic field pole to an equatorial location. From this position it could later either recover or adopt a reversed polarity. He proposed that this geomagnetic excursion would be very rapid, occurring in a matter of days.
Verification (1989 - 95): Geophysicists reported their analysis of a geomagnetic reversal recorded in the Steens Mountain lava formation, conclusively demonstrating that during this reversal the Earth’s magnetic pole changed direction as fast as 8 degrees per day. This overthrew the conventional geocentric view which could not account for such rapid changes with internal motions of the Earth’s core dynamo. It confirmed Dr. LaViolette’s mechanism of rapid change.
Concordance (1995): Unaware of LaViolette’s publications, two French geophysicists published a paper that sought to explain the Steens Mountain polarity reversal as being due to a solar cosmic ray cause. Their mechanism was the same as that which LaViolette had proposed 6 years before the Steens Mountain discovery. Their independent arrival at the same idea is evidence of parallel idea development and consensus with LaViolette’s earlier theory.
There is no life on Mars or anywhere else. We are alone, get used to it “scientists”.
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