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Mars Life Looms Closer
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| 23 Sep 04
| Phil Berardellie
Posted on 09/23/2004 8:53:43 AM PDT by RightWhale
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Possibility turn to suspicion
To: RightWhale
Mars a Red Planet or a Blue Planet?
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posted on
09/23/2004 8:55:42 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
A sample of Martian bacteria shows they would vote W ten to one.
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posted on
09/23/2004 8:57:57 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: RightWhale
How "legitimate" a science journal is Icarus? I'll have to remain skeptical of these claims for now.
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posted on
09/23/2004 9:02:13 AM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>disingenuous filmmaker</A>)
To: RightWhale
only two possibilities Hm. Alas, I think there's a serious failure of imagination at work here. I can think of another possibility, and it's stunning that Our Good Doctor did not bother to consider it.
How about carbonaceous meteors crashing into Mars? They'd probably survive to hit the surface and disperse the gas.
Our dear professor is too focused on finding life to consider reasonable alternatives.
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09/23/2004 9:02:20 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: RightWhale
>>So the next step in the search for Martian life is to isolate the source or sources of the methane.<<
Look for cattle!
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09/23/2004 9:05:35 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(´´Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the people´s liberty´s teeth.)
To: RightWingAtheist
This is not the only source. Art Bell and Richard Hoagland are others. That lends a lot of credence, doesn't it.
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posted on
09/23/2004 9:05:46 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: RightWhale
Look for CBS to announce that "Mary Mapes has been sent to Mars to collect important evidence" for this story, which Dan Rather hopes to present to his listeners "real soon."
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posted on
09/23/2004 9:14:38 AM PDT
by
Clioman
To: Clioman
The story had credibility, but if Dan Rather is involved we might have to question if there actually is a planet Mars.
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09/23/2004 9:20:17 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: RightWingAtheist
Icarus is a legitimate journal of planetary science. It's published by the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.
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posted on
09/23/2004 9:23:58 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: Clioman
"Mary Mapes has been sent to Mars to collect important evidence" for this story, which Dan Rather hopes to present to his listeners "real soon."
well, considering that methane is the result of, um, "passing wind," ol' Dan will be hot on trail...
To: RightWhale; KevinDavis
Kevin -- space ping. A team led by Vladimir Krasnopolsky of Catholic University has analyzed the existence of methane in the Martian atmosphere and found strong evidence bacterial action is the only plausible source of the gas. The planet's fabled little green men might be little green algae, alive somewhere under the surface - today. I think it's a product of metabolism of methanogenic bacteria on Mars, Krasnopolsky, an atmospheric scientist, told United Press International. They catalyze carbon dioxide and hydrogen to form methane and water... The methane must be coming from bacterial action, Krasnopolsky said. We're pretty confident, he added.
RW, I'll scare up some additional 'fo. George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
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posted on
09/23/2004 9:47:37 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=napalminthemorning)
To: RightWhale
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posted on
09/23/2004 9:51:04 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=napalminthemorning)
To: RightWhale
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09/23/2004 9:51:58 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(<font type=1972 IBM>I <change typeballs>am<change typeballs> Buckhead)
To: freedumb2003
20 tons of bacteria doesn't seem super threatening. We will probably find bacteria on every rocky planet.
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09/23/2004 9:55:58 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: SunkenCiv
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09/23/2004 9:57:42 AM PDT
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RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: RightWhale
20 tons of bacteria doesn't seem super threatening Isn't that a description of the DNC?
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09/23/2004 10:06:26 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(<font type=1972 IBM>I <change typeballs>am<change typeballs> Buckhead)
To: RightWhale
This is not the only source. Art Bell and Richard Hoagland are others. That lends a lot of credence, doesn't it. Falling asleep a couple of months ago, I recall Linda Moulton-Howe was "chasing down" an Italian scientist that
was due to make public his discovery of formaldehyde, iirc. I guess a short-lived molecule as a gas.
And surprise, he "disappears" and doesn't make the announcement.
And Hoagland go in on the game earlier this month.
To: Calvin Locke
He's not disappeared. He sits by himself in the cafeteria, though.
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posted on
09/23/2004 11:09:42 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: RightWhale
All we need is for Tommy Van Flandern to jump in, and we'll have a Consensus of Dunces.
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posted on
09/23/2004 11:13:37 AM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>disingenuous filmmaker</A>)
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