Mars called key to quest for alien life

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 8, 2002 | Keay Davidson

[Korth]

Chris McKay's album of family photos opens with a picture of fossilized bacteria, entombed within rock billions of years old.

"This is one of (my family's) oldest, oldest, oldest ancestors," declares the NASA scientist, showing a slide of the photo and drawing a big laugh from his packed audience. But he's only half joking.

[monkey]

Besides being an "astrobiologist,"

Every Friday night, he has drinks with the guy who maintains perpetual motion machines, the cold fusion engineer, and the President of the Clinton Ethical Society.

[A CA Guy]

"Mars called key to quest for alien life"

I thought they found it in the Libertarian Party?

[tet68]

McKay noted that they contained tiny metallic grains similar to those deployed by terrestrial bacteria for the purposes of navigation. That's a hint, he said, that if Martian bacteria ever existed, then they "independently discovered a way to use magnets to navigate."

Guess that encompasses everything.Worked for Columbus.

[Free the USA]

fyi

[Eastbound]

Perhaps more of a key than they are aware of. According to ancient writings, de-cyphered and interpreted by renowned orientalist and biblical scholar, Zecharia Sitchin*, Mars was used as a 'way station' by the biblical Nephilim to transport gold to another planet in our solar system.

The gold was ground to dust and was purportedly used as an orbital shield to repair and preserve the plant's waning atmosphere.

Of interest, is a portion of the ancient text which tells of a face sculpted from a large rock, marking the burial place of one of the bad guys who was exiled to Mars from earth and eventually died there. (Move over, Richard Hoagland!) LOL!

Tin foil stuff, I know, but sometimes mythology hides some strange things .

* - Sitchin's last book, "The Lost Book of Enki," (Fiction,mythology) ISBN 1 879181 83 5

Fregards ~~ Dave

[montag813]

Mars...an excellent location for the Palestinian State.

[montag813]

Mars...an excellent location for the Palestinian State.

[A. Pole]

-- Did meteorites ferry bacteria from Mars to Earth?

I think that it is very likely than on Mars there is some form of life and not alien one. The Earth atmosphere carries a lot of spores and other life particles and the Solar wind or some meteorites had to seed Earthly life on Mars many times.