NASA Researches Claim Evidenc of Present Life on Mars

Space News ^ | Feb. 16, 2005 | Brian Berger

[PresbyRev]

WASHINGTON -- A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.

The scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted their findings to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their paper currently is being peer reviewed.

What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.

[PresbyRev]

Soon we will force the Grays from their hidden lairs. :-)

[martin_fierro]

[martin_fierro]

Soon we will force the Grays from their hidden lairs. :-)

I'll bet your sermons are really something to hear.

[SeamusVA]

[Brilliant]

"hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water..."

Cave men on Mars?

[FormerACLUmember]

Damn right there is current life on Mars. In fact it is coming to a neighborhood near you on 29 June (War of the Worlds by Steven Spielberg).

[Publius Scipio]

their paper currently is being peer reviewed.

Naturally the press couldn't wait until the review was complete.

[EagleUSA]

Someone asked me the other day, "Where did liberals come from?"...totally stumped before, NOW I have an answer for them...

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Don't tell the Masons about possible life on Mars, they will just try to control it with their secrets.

[mlbford2]

``"hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water..." ``


Osama????

[Fiddlstix]

ROFLMAO!

Great Pic!
LOL

[PresbyRev]

Who controls the British Crown?
Who keeps the Metric System down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Altantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
We do! We do!

Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
We do! We do!

Who robs cave fish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
We do! We do!

[AxelPaulsenJr]

LOL................

[ryan71]

"Bush and the right wing are responsible for putting life on Mars and we need to stop it." - Nancy Pelosi

"I'd have put life on Mars a long time ago, but I'd have done it differently". John Kerry

"I asked Condi if Bush put life on Mars and she said, "No". Just another reason she should not be the new Secretary of State." - Barbara Boxer

"It'll be a quagmire up there on Mars. Do they have liquor stores?" - Ted Kennedy

"Ha ha ha, you know, my husband thought of putting life on Mars a long time ago, but he thought we should be more concerned about people here on Earth." - Hillary Clinton

[newgeezer]

NASA Researche[r]s Claim Evidenc[e] of Present Life on Mars

Copy-and-paste very much wants to be your friend, Rev. :-)

[irish_links]

The STONECUTTERS Rule!!! Literally.

[Dunstan McShane]

Making such a discovery at Rio Tinto, Stoker said in 2003, would mean uncovering a new, previously uncharacterized metabolic strategy for living in the subsurface. “For that reason, the search for life in the Rio Tinto is a good analog for searching for life on Mars,” she said.

Except that Rio Tinto is on a planet already famed for being lousy with life-forms, and Mars, so far, isn't.

Otherwise, yeah, perfect analog . . .

[aimhigh]

they have found strong evidence that life

This is an article with little substance. The evidence might point to past life, but not current life. I doubt that God created a dead universe.

[thegreatbeast]

Well maybe they'll luck out and earth will be hit by a giant asteroid before global warming takes its toll.

[WakeUpAndVote]

Damn right there is current life on Mars. In fact it is coming to a neighborhood near you on 29 June (War of the Worlds by Steven Spielberg).


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Why do I have a feeling that Spielberg is going to ruin this film?