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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: PC99
If they do find organics in the test, it could be one of the true seminal moments in human history—the first sign of proof that life exists on other planets besides Earth.
To: mnehrling
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:31:14 PM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: blam
To late...they're pissed.Awwww, Man!
Now what?
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:32:57 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: RayChuang88
That is the plan. It was a surprise to learn that this spacecraft was designed to do just that. It has a microscope, too, in case of fossils.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:33:55 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(I will veto each and every beer)
To: RayChuang88
“If they do find organics in the test, it could be one of the true seminal moments in human history—the first sign of proof that life exists on other planets besides Earth.”
You earthlings really crack me up!
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:34:31 PM PDT
by
FMBass
("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
To: Sax
I hope NASA stocked up on incandescents, and isn’t relying on CFLs.
To: RightWhale
fine particles fill the oven cavity, which is no wider than a pencil leadDoesn't that incredibly small oven somewhat limit the sample that can be tested? I mean, there could be a tiny snapping martian crap in the sample and it would be rejected before it got cooked.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:39:20 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: RayChuang88
If they do find organics in the test, it could be one of the true seminal moments in human history—the first sign of proof that life exists on other planets besides Earth.
Don't get your hopes up. All evidence to date, does not support that position. But hey, who knows.
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:41:30 PM PDT
by
ZX12R
To: Mike Fieschko
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:42:51 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Mike Fieschko
I thought 'Maybe it's clumpy because it's too damp.My thought too. Do they have a dryer in there??
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posted on
06/11/2008 2:59:34 PM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
To: RayChuang88
If they do find organics in the test, it could be one of the true seminal moments in human history—the first sign of proof that life exists on other planets besides Earth. Naaa...presence of an organic chemical does not necessarily mean there is life there. Organic compounds can be synthesized from inorganic starting materials (For example: In 1828 Friedrich Wöhler first manufactured the organic chemical urea (carbamide), a constituent of urine, from the inorganic ammonium cyanate NH4OCN, in what is now called the Wöhler synthesis).
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posted on
06/11/2008 3:04:39 PM PDT
by
Mogollon
(Vote straight GOP for congress....our only protection against Obama, or McCain.)
To: mnehrling
To: yobid
Now tell it to drill for oil! Excellent point, they can spend millions on a bucket of dirt..............
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posted on
06/11/2008 3:24:26 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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