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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. It's a Dup by bcwalrus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/0 8/1351200&mode=thread&tid=134&tid=160

    Might /. contain dups?

  2. Re:"Might Mars Contain...?" what the...? by zapp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    then stop reading. The quality of slashdot relates exactly to the quality of stories readers post, and the quality of comments readers write.

    AC slashdot posting does *not* increase the quality.

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  3. Re:RIAA? MPAA? by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Woohoo! I've been moderated as 'over rated'!

    That's like over-achiever, right?

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