At last an explanation for the enigmatic "Third Experiment"!
Some of us have been waiting a long, long time for the other shoe to drop on this one -- in fact I'd given up, assuming that if there ever had been anything there we'd probably have contaminated it out of all detectability already. But if it's as weird as this, it may not be easy to confuse with contamination.
Next on the agenda: Find the local tap into the Ophiuchi Hotline... I'm sure it's out there, if we just knew where to look...
Terry Blanton wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/23/scimars123.xml Scientists found life on Mars back in the 70s By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 6:01pm BST 23/08/2007 The soil on Mars may indeed be teeming with microbes, according to a new interpretation of data first collected more than 30 years ago. Scientists found life on Mars back in the 70s The search for life on Mars appeared to hit a dead end in 1976 when Viking landers touched down on the red planet and failed to detect biological activity. There was another flurry of excitement a decade later, when Nasa thought it had found evidence of life in a Mars meteorite but doubts have since been cast on that finding. Today, Joop Houtkooper from Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany, will claim the Viking spacecraft may in fact have encountered signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the subfreezing, arid Martian surface. <more>
