| Re: NASA Probes may have killed Life on Mars |
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Group: sci.bio.evolution · Group Profile
Author: John WilkinsJohn Wilkins Date: Jan 11, 2007 10:58
> Bob Kolker wrote:
>>> Scientist Suggests NASA Probes Killed Life on Mars
>>> By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP
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>>> WASHINGTON (Jan. 8) - Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years
>>> ago may have stumbled upon alien microbes on the Red Planet and
>>> inadvertently killed them, a scientist theorizes in a paper released
>>> Sunday.
>>
>> The original probe was rather heavy. Perhaps when it landed it crushed
>> the last remaining Martian, a small creature the size of a field mous
>> with two heads and eye stalks.
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>> And all the poor little fellow wanted was to see what was coming down.
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>> Bob Kolker
>
> Danged sidewalk superintendant.
> To take the seriously, and ignore the implication in the header that
> the last living thing on Mars was killed, are there any known organisms
> with a combination of water and hydrogen peroxide?
> REgards
> John GW
Not so far as I know, but we don't have the kinds of environments in
which that would be a useful chemistry.
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
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