Mars landing may have destroyed martian life forms
POSTED BY: Siri
UPDATED: Thursday, January 11, 2007 14:01
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"Did probes find Martian life ... or kill it off?
Researcher says spacecraft could have destroyed peroxide-based microbes
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I read a story yesterday about the Martian landing several years ago. The article reported that scientists now think there may be life forms that are based on hydrogen peroxide and not H2O. It went on to stay that it may be that water does still occasionally flows on Mars in very limited amounts. The earlier landing used water and in another experiement fire to test for lifeforms. But they were looking for lifeforms as they exist on Earth and the techniques that were used would have destroyed hydrogen peroxide based lifeforms.
I am not a scientist (obviously) and may be quoting inaccurately - but the gist of the story was that at the time of this landing we didn't have the same knowledge base and may have destroyed existing lifeforms. There are plans to try again with different techniques. I always find these stories fascinating even if they don't turn out as anticipated.
While I probably won't have an opportunity to do any space exploring during my lifetime - it's exciting to think of the possibilities. I'm assuming there are a few more space explorer wanabees out there.
Siri
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I think I recall that there were 3 tests for life which the Viking craft used , and that 2 of the test provided a negative result. The 3rd test was 'inconclusive', and one of the origianl NASA engineers is convinced that had the last test been more accurate, it would have detected life.
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Coast to Coast had their show on it you probably know that. Richard C Hoagland talked about it. I always like listening to him.
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Well...we must have done something real bad on Mars at some point. Why else would they have attacked Earth for the last 50 years?
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Originally posted by ShinyEd:
Well...we must have done something real bad on Mars at some point. Why else would they have attacked Earth for the last 50 years?
Tell me about it. Those god damned Mars bars are killing us........we should have saw it coming. We could always just apologize to the little green men, shit we can send them Paris Hilton as a peace offering......Well, it might work......
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Paris Hilton! We want to communicate, not make them fashion conscience. Please!
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I heard that we sent the Mars rovers with peace offering blankets for our little green friends that were soaked in smallpox.
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Well...we must have done something real bad on Mars at some point. Why else would they have attacked Earth for the last 50 years?
Marvin's been annoyed at us for a long time, because we're blocking his view of Venus, not because of anything we DID.
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I heard that we sent the Mars rovers with peace offering blankets for our little green friends that were soaked in smallpox.
Hey there - I hadn't heard about that. I'll bet that's exactly what happened ... and they're trying to hide it from us. Maybe we can get Mr. Universe (or Mrs. Universe since the Mr. bit the dust) - to get the word out.
Siri
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