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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

12 posted on 09/23/2004 9:47:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=napalminthemorning)
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To: SunkenCiv
Another article today. space.com
16 posted on 09/23/2004 9:57:42 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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