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http://snipurl.com/1q7fl On 8/28/07, Stephen A. Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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> > > > > > >
