---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote :
As 99 per cent of the methane produced on Earth is generated by biological processes it looks like H G Wells may have been on the right track after all. Funnily enough, they did this experiment in the '70s with the Viking lander and it had the same result but they concluded there was no life because the other two experiments on board didn't find anything. But the lander had been forced to touch down in a place where the other tests weren't designed to work. The team that built the original gas exchanger lab on board were highly pissed off but went along with it at the press conference. Later on they maintained they had found life but this is the first thing that has been landed since that is actually looking for life because everything since Viking kept up the assumption there was none! I hope it gets confirmed as something living but the bigger question is whether it evolved independently of life on Earth. There's been so much interchange of material between the two planets via meteorites that we could be Martians and vice versa. Proving that we are separate life forms would dramatically increase the likelihood that life can get going anywhere suitable. ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : This will be rather amazing if true... Nasa finds evidence of 'life on Mars' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html Nasa finds evidence of 'life on Mars' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html Evidence of life on Mars could have been found by Nasa's Curiosity Rover. View on www.independent.co.uk http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-finds-evidence-of-life-on-mars-9929510.html Preview by Yahoo
