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Viking robots found life on Mars in 1976, scientists say
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47031923/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.T4g6-1FWpu0 ^

Posted on 04/13/2012 7:55:36 AM PDT by chessplayer

New analysis of 36-year-old data, resuscitated from printouts, shows that NASA found life on Mars, an international team of mathematicians and scientists conclude in a paper published this week.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gilbertlevin; mars; nasa; panspermia; science; sourcetitlenoturl; viking; xplanets
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To: SC DOC
Martian monolith.

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21 posted on 04/13/2012 8:13:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: cripplecreek
You're upsetting her.


22 posted on 04/13/2012 8:15:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: chessplayer
Viking robots found life on Mars in 1976
Subhead - "NASA says they MUST re-investigate. Asks for another $9999999 billion."
23 posted on 04/13/2012 8:15:58 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: chessplayer

Of course there is life on Mars... OURS! Sheila Jackson Lee told me so!!


24 posted on 04/13/2012 8:21:35 AM PDT by C210N (Mitt "Severe Etch-a-Sketch" mcRominate-me)
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To: chessplayer

Viking robots found life on Mars in 1976............................... After 976 years? It proves that Viking technology was ahead of its time. And you still do not believe my ancestors arrived in the great Ice Ship?


25 posted on 04/13/2012 8:24:05 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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To: oh8eleven
"Viking robots found life on Mars in 1976 Subhead - "NASA says they MUST re-investigate. Asks for another $9999999 billion.""

Actually, with this Administration, the request for more $$$ would be for global warming and Muslim outreach. Can't have any real new frontier symbolism. Call the Russians.

26 posted on 04/13/2012 8:26:31 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: cripplecreek
Japanese censured version.


27 posted on 04/13/2012 8:31:48 AM PDT by Theoria (Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
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To: chessplayer

28 posted on 04/13/2012 8:32:30 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: BitWielder1
It existed for billions of years but could not survive the Bush administration

Nope it was SUV's that did it.

29 posted on 04/13/2012 8:33:31 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Gaffer

Manufactured way of saying “We need more money”.....The impact of not knowing this revelation hasn’t changed anything. You simply cannot believe anything anyone who works for government says anymore, pure and simple.


Yeah, yeah, yeah,,,hippy, running dog, commie-pinko scientists, eh?


30 posted on 04/13/2012 8:37:35 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: oh8eleven

Subhead - “NASA says they MUST re-investigate. Asks for another $9999999 billion.”


They know they don’t have a chance in hell of getting more money from libs or conservatives for ANY reason whatsoever, so why would they lie?


31 posted on 04/13/2012 8:42:24 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Lady Lucky

I just sprayed tea across my keyboard....


32 posted on 04/13/2012 8:51:17 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: eCSMaster

My understanding of the Scientific Method:

__Construct hypothesis.
__Design experiment to absolutely prove/disprove hypothesis:
____If results = x, hypothesis = true,
____If results = y, hypothesis = false.
__Run experiment.
__Publish results.
__Peer review of methodology.
__Peer replication of experiment validates/invalidates hypothesis or methodology.
__Hypothesis validation/invalidation accepted by scientific community.

The experiment on the Viking lander was designed to prove/disprove the existence of life on Mars. When the results met the criteria that would prove the existence of life, the peer review of the methodology decided that the results COULD be showing something else.

Conspiracy time:
1) So, after the experiment was conducted NASA decides to have best “experts” examine the methodology? Bad management or cover story?
2) In the next 36 years, they couldn’t have found the time/money/platform availability to send up the revised experiment? 36 consecutive years of bad management?

My theory: What is the upside/downside breakdown of being the President that breaks it to the world populace that life does exist on other planets? For a politician’s perspective: I see lots of potential downside, not a lot of upside.


33 posted on 04/13/2012 8:51:33 AM PDT by Darteaus94025
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To: chessplayer

Lets see,,,scientists are nothing but lying pigs trying to get more money with their latest statements about Mars but the NASA folk are as trustworthy as all get out about global warming.

“Hansen and Schmidt of NASA GISS under fire for climate stance (Letter to Bolden from NASA leaders)”


34 posted on 04/13/2012 8:56:28 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Rich21IE

Ditto, the only thing that would have made this better would have been a reference to a “seasoned producer.”


35 posted on 04/13/2012 9:03:54 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: chessplayer

Have you heard about the monolith photographed on Mars?
http://news.yahoo.com/monolith-object-mars-could-call-214004772.html


36 posted on 04/13/2012 9:04:01 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: chessplayer
Couple these new findings with the mystery of methane being constantly replenished on Mars, we now have two strong indicators that there is life on that planet.

and apparently it eats burritos...
37 posted on 04/13/2012 9:08:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: chessplayer
Looks like lakes and bushes or trees to me!







38 posted on 04/13/2012 9:14:10 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Darteaus94025

When the results met the criteria that would prove the existence of life, the peer review of the methodology decided that the results COULD be showing something else.


And the results COULD have actually been life. If whatever NASA says are lies just to get more money, it seems they would have lied in 1976 and said they DID find life. Much easier for them to get funding in the 1970’s.


39 posted on 04/13/2012 9:15:11 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: from occupied ga
Nope it was SUV's that did it.

Yea, those big gas guzzling Mars Rovers.
What? They use solar panels? No gas? Really?
Well solar panels must be bad for the environment then.

40 posted on 04/13/2012 9:16:45 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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