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Phoenix Lander Has An Oven Full Of Martian Soil [oven filled w/soil scooped last Friday]
physorg.com ^
| 16:09 EST, <a href="http://archive.physorg.com/11/06/2008">June 11, 2008 </a>
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Posted on 06/11/2008 1:59:59 PM PDT by Mike Fieschko
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To: Mike Fieschko
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:01:46 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(I will veto each and every beer)
To: Mike Fieschko
Now tell it to drill for oil!
Ooops, wrong planet.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:03:52 PM PDT
by
yobid
(Tax me more. I want to "feel" rich!)
To: Mike Fieschko
Martian mudpie! Order up!
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:03:52 PM PDT
by
Sax
To: Mike Fieschko
Fingers cross, hoping that when the experiment is concluded, there is a unanimous shout of "Eureka!"
Finding water would be exciting as hell.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:05:56 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: Mike Fieschko; blam
The soil just fell in? All of a sudden?
Wouldn’t having it sit on the screen in the sun change it’s composition, at least as far as moisture is concerned?
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:10:03 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: okie01
They already have water. They are looking for organics. The oven will cook for a few days and then we shall see what comes up on the analyzer.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:10:06 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(I will veto each and every beer)
To: Mike Fieschko
It’s not water - we know water is there. It’s organics. The two Viking landers found zero organics in soil in 1976, even less than the lifeless lunar regolith. No organics at a third site (and the only one with confirmed water), and the prospects for life keep diminishing.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:10:35 PM PDT
by
PC99
To: okie01
From the article:
Boynton said that the oven might have filled because of the cumulative effects of all the vibrating, or because of changes in the soil's cohesiveness as it sat for days on the top of the screen.
When the scooped soil didn't fall through the screen, I thought 'Maybe it's clumpy because it's too damp.'
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:11:04 PM PDT
by
Mike Fieschko
(et numquam abrogatam)
To: Mike Fieschko
Well, they’d just better leave it there where they found it and not even think about bringing it to Earth.
We all know what’d happen....
Zombies.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:11:04 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Satisfaction was my sin)
To: fanfan
It is that same guy who comes by to clean the dust off the Rovers solar panels. He gave the lander a tap, and there it goes!
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:12:36 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(I will veto each and every beer)
To: Mike Fieschko
How ironic if this is our first contact with intelligent life from another planet, and we scoop it up and cook it.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:12:39 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: All
As soon as we find life on Mars, the RATS will call for taxation and voter registration on the red planet...
To: mnehrling
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:16:14 PM PDT
by
shineon
To: mnehrling
How ironic if this is our first contact with intelligent life from another planet, and we scoop it up and cook it.That intelligent life would have to be dumb as dirt.
To: Mike Fieschko
If only it could find the American flag that was left there...that would thrill Sheila Jackson-Lee.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:17:29 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(John McCain is Lucy, McCainiacs are Charlie Brown, and the football is a secure border.)
To: Mike Fieschko
We’ve learned that martian soil is clumpy? I hope there’s more.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:18:22 PM PDT
by
ZX12R
To: okie01
Check for dennis kookcinich DNA
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:18:46 PM PDT
by
mplc5
To: RightWhale
Rover Duster for President!
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:21:46 PM PDT
by
fanfan
("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
To: RandallFlagg; RightWhale; fanfan
"Well, they’d just better leave it there where they found it and not even think about bringing it to Earth.""We all know what’d happen....
To late...they're pissed.
War Of The Worlds
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:29:50 PM PDT
by
blam
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