Mars ET boiled alive in 1976 by stupid earth scientists!

[matamafia]

http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/life-on-mars-found-but-destroyed-by-mistake_770032.html

Life on Mars found but destroyed by mistake
Last Updated: Saturday, April 14, 2012, 21:43
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Tags: Life on Mars, NASA, Red Planet
Life on Mars found but destroyed by mistake London: Bungling NASA scientists are believed to have found tiny live microbes on Mars - but mistakenly killed them by boiling them alive, a media report said Saturday.

Two spacecraft that landed on the Red Planet in 1976 are now thought to have detected microbes in Martian soil. But scientists at the time failed to spot the signs of life - and cooked the bugs at 160 degrees Centigrade during experiments, The Sun reported.

Now an international team has used modern techniques to re-examine data collected by the two unmanned Viking probes.

Biologist Joseph Miller, of the University of Southern California, said: "I'm 99 percent sure there's life there. To paraphrase an old saying, if it looks like a microbe and acts like a microbe - then it probably is a microbe."

During the 1976 mission, nutrients were added to the Martian soil. It would have a similar effect to putting plant food on a garden. The soil gave off a gas, believed to be mainly carbon dioxide.

Experts dismissed the possibility that the gas came from bugs. But new tests indicate it did. Unfortunately, the soil was heated in the original tests, killing any microbes, the newspaper added.

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[vamjok]

this has to be the greatest joke on the scientific community LOL

 

[matamafia]

this has to be the greatest joke on the scientific community LOL

Top scholar NASA smart ass like PAP type mah! Just a bit of PONDING loh. :p

 

[Bigfuck]

Prepare for invasion from Mars.

 

[AhLeePaPa]

Prepare for invasion from Mars.

Already invaded long before the Japs liao mah. Few centuries ago already came.

 

[Alamaking]

The Sun? fiction report lah...

 

[vamjok]

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Science+and+Tech/Story/A1Story20120414-339670.html

Scientists have concluded from reviewing data of 1976 Mars Viking rovers that bacteria existed on Mars.

The original consensus of scientists has been that the experiment found geological, not biological activity.

But the new study took a different, purely numerical approach.

Researchers took the hard copy Viking Labeled Release data into sets of numbers and analyzed the results for complexity, as living systems are more complicated than non-biological processes.

"The ultimate proof is to take a video of a Martian bacteria. They should send a microscope - watch the bacteria move," said Miller, neuropharmacologist and biologist with the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

"On the basis of what we've done so far, I'd say I'm 99 per cent sure there's life there!"

On the other hand, critics say the method is not yet proven to differentiating between biological and non-biological processes. "On mars we have no way to test the method, while on Earth we can," countered planetary scientist and astrobiologist Christopher McKay, with NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.

The research is published online in the International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences.

 

[vamjok]

ALH84001 meteorite


An electron microscope reveals bacteria-like structures in meteorite fragment ALH84001
The ALH84001 meteorite was found on December 1984 on Antarctica, by members of the ANSMET project; the meteorite weighs 1.93 kilograms (4.3 lb).[27] The sample was ejected from Mars about 17 million years ago and spent 11,000 years in or on the Antarctic ice sheets. Composition analysis by NASA revealed a kind of magnetite that on Earth, is only found in association with certain microorganisms.[25] Then, in August 2002, another NASA team led by Thomas-Keptra published a study indicating that 25% of the magnetite in ALH 84001 occurs as small, uniform-sized crystals that, on Earth, is associated only with biologic activity, and that the remainder of the material appears to be normal inorganic magnetite. The extraction technique did not permit determination as to whether the possibly biological magnetite was organized into chains as would be expected. The meteorite displays indication of relatively low temperature secondary mineralization by water and show evidence of preterrestrial aqueous alteration. Evidence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been identified with the levels increasing away from the surface.

Some structures resembling the mineralized casts of terrestrial bacteria and their appendages (fibrils) or by-products (extracellular polymeric substances) occur in the rims of carbonate globules and preterrestrial aqueous alteration regions.[28][29] The size and shape of the objects is consistent with Earthly fossilized nanobacteria, but the existence of nanobacteria itself is controversial.

In November 2009, NASA scientists said that a recent, more detailed analysis showed that the meteorite "contains strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars".[30]

 

[vamjok]

actually this is hardly surprising, since the discovery of ALH84001 then a lot people already holding the view its possible to have life there