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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. Finding life on Mars - the cliche anthology by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 1, Troll

    1. Launch probe
    2. ?????
    3. Profit!
    On Soviet Mars, life finds you!

    Just think what a beowulf cluster of probes would find...

  2. Re:Comfort by FroMan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't worry. God is out there. Heck, he's here too.

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  3. Sir Francis Drake... by The+Lynxpro · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now if the British probe can find the Seal of Sir Francis Drake on Mars, then the U.K. owns the planet (the Seal in place before the U.N. treaty)... Oh well, they lost California to the Spanish squatters a few hundred years ago, but who cares? They wound up with Mars! And you all thought *Space 1889* was just a game...

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