Microscopic Peach Fuzz May Be Evidence of Martians

FoxNews.com ^ | April 3, 2008 | Dave Mosher

[ShadowDancer]

Microscopic Peach Fuzz May Be Evidence of Martians

Thursday, April 03, 2008

By Dave Mosher

A bundle of cellulose fibers around 253 million years old, recovered from a salt deposit 2,000 feet beneath the ground in New Mexico. A bundle of cellulose fibers around 253 million years old, recovered from a salt deposit 2,000 feet beneath the ground in New Mexico. If Martian life existed a few billion years ago, scientists think any plant-like microbes would have left behind a stringy fuzz of fibers.

That's because here on Earth, researchers now say they have found such ancient fuzz, called cellulose, preserved in chunks of salt deposited more than 250 million years ago — making it the oldest biological substance yet recovered.

The announcement comes about a week after a team of planetary scientists announced discovering evaporated salt deposits on Mars and adds another element of hope to the search for alien life or signs of its past biology.

In fact, microscopic cellulose fibers might be one of the best signatures of any past life on the red planet, said Jack Griffith, a microbiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[Wiggins]

Microscopic peach fuzz? I was thinking of something other than Martians.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

I sure have eaten a lot of Martians.

[Siberian-psycho]

[6SJ7]

A bundle of cellulose fibers around 253 million years old...

Twinkie wrappers of the gods.

[Clintonfatigued]

Will the Martians be anything like Marvin from the Buggs Bunny cartoon?

[ShadowDancer]

Was that his name, the little guy with the helmet and the weird voice?

[Clintonfatigued]

Sure was!

[democratsaremyenemy]

There is only one thing that will kill Martians....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPp5IO07D9s

[ShadowDancer]

You suck.

[null and void]

They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

(Thank God!)

[Mr. Brightside]

"You make me very, very angry!"

[adorno]

around 253 million years old

Approximately every 250 million years, the earth undergoes mass extinctions. Along with the extinctions, millions of new life forms also come about.

Every 250 million years (or so), our planetary system, including the sun and all of our planets, complete an orbit around our Milky Way galaxy. No doubt, we encounter at a particular point in our orbit around our galaxy, another star, possibly with its own planets and its own life forms that inter-mingle with our own planets and sun and life forms. Thus, that clash causes mass extinctions, but also causes new life forms to either be gained or developed.

[maine-iac7]

Geeze -they left behind their dust bunnies

[coincheck]

Just think, in another 1 billion years, maybe some life form that comes about from the destruction of our present world might find our bones and come up with some new theory about how they came from some premordial soup and base their scientific evidence around that belief without any evidence from the archeological or geological record to support the theory and call it fact like they do now.

That the earth is old is not the question, it is how life began, that is the question, the archeological record shows that life just appeared. No evolution, No evidence of a “nutrient broth”, No proof that truly supports the theory.

Just a theory, that has helped destroy the foundation of the family and mankind.

We will believe anything, except the truth.

[sphinx]

Yeah, that’s the way I remember it too.

[adorno]

Yeah, that’s the way I remember it too.

What is is that you remember? Being there when it happened, or reading it somewhere.

[2111USMC]

Don’t do the brown acid, man.

[ASA Vet]

Here's another one.

[visualops]

That’s an important and much-used figure in Vietnamese art (a boy on a water buffalo).