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Might Mars Contain Life?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the at-least-as-much-as-that-tupperware-in-my-fridge dept.

stagmeister writes "According to the BBC, the Viking probes to Mars in the 1970s "detected strange signs of activity in the Martian soil - akin to microbes giving off gas," and that while those findings were not acknowledged as proof of life then, "in 1997, reached the conclusion ... that the so-called LR (labelled release) work had detected life." At the same time, the British are launching a probe to try to find life on Mars."

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  1. Different Impressions by KoopaTroopa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Folks sitting around giving off gas tend to give me less hope of finding intelligent life.

    Then again, I hail from Tennessee, so I see a lot of this sort of thing. Bring on the Martian trailerparks!

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    1. Re:Different Impressions by TopShelf · · Score: 5, Funny

      So would these lifeforms be called Fartians???

      sorry, couldn't help myself...

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  2. That's nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We send multi-billion dollar probes to Mars to discover microbes farting.

  3. Martian Cult by zapod4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If one of these martians comes to earth, would he start a religion and make love to everybody? I am begining to grok the situation.

  4. Re:Sagan by Yunzil · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is no such thing as an 'extraordinary claim'.

    Yes, there is.

    Ordinary claim: I saw a light in the sky last night.

    Extraordinary claim: I saw an alien spacecraft over my house last night. It was piloted by aliens from a planet in the galaxy we know as M33. It was constructed of elements from the trans-uranic island of stability and had a faster-than-light stardrive. Oh, and it used marshmallow Easter peeps for power.