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Possible Evidence of Martian Bacteria
half-seas-over writes "NASA issued a very interesting press release today. It highlights a recent study that compared tiny magnetite crystals in the Allan Hill meteorite to similar magnetite crystals that are created here on Earth by bacteria (who use the magnetite as a compass). The study (abstract available here (PDF) from this site) uses fairly strict criteria to determine that 25% of the magnetite content of the meteorite was created by ancient (>3.9Gyr ago) martian bacteria... either that or there is some strange natural process that makes very pure, isolated magnetite crystals that we haven't imagined or seen on Earth which is present on Mars. We'll have to wait and see what happens next, 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' -Carl Sagan."
You and your coworkers need to stop posting this story, until you can post it without phrases like "possible bacteria" "may contain" "could be life". What you and your scientifically stunted cohorts fail to realize, is that until it's proven conclusively one way or another, it's not news.
Here's some examples:
Our solor system may contain 120 planets.
CmdrTaco possibly never committed a spelling
error in his life.
This story may be more exciting after it's
2000th posting.
You see. Anything could be.
Stop being a moron and quit posting such articles. It's scientifically irresponsible.