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Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore
rubycodez writes "Three meteorites, including one that has been in a British museum for over a century, are going to be put under the electron microscope and ion microprobe by NASA. We're 'very, very close to proving there is or has been life [on Mars],' said David McKay, chief of astrobiology at Johnson Space Center."
Undebunked? Rebunked? Or just bunked?
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
The truth is out there...
June 2010: "Scientists analysing martian meteorites mysteriously dissappear after announcing they where close to a breakthrough. Majestic 12 suspected."
-paul
...watching us amusedly from the shadows while we blindly poke sticks in the opposite direction.
Cunts, on slashdot...?
You must be from Mars or something... Welcome, lifeform!!
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
I think the baby Jesus put those "microbes" there to relax after a hard day of burying fake dinosaur bones.
Woah woah woah! Hold the phone. What do you mean unicorns don't exist?
WTH is this thing then?
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Answer me that, smarty pants! ;-P
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I'm curious if, based on previous evidence that water existed on Mars at some point before it hit the deep-freeze, does this essentially suggest that water = life everywhere?
Hint. Top Cat had whiskers, Garfield has whiskers. Does this essentially suggest that whiskers=cats everywhere?
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Damnit, Cartman, get off Slashdot.
Is that Rodney McKay's brother? Can't they just take an F-302 and look at Mars directly?
Actually, their standard rhetoric on dinosaurs would still apply: Either the devil put it there to destroy mankinds belief in God, or else God placed it there as part of the creation process to test the faith of true believers.
The only thing I have to say to people who believe that is this:
If God gave us brains yet doesn't wish us to USE them as proof of our faith, then he's not a God that I care to associate with.
Well, ok, I might also tell them that their narrow view of the world is blinding them to the majesty of all Creation, which extends not just from one horizon to the other, but instead subsumes EVERYTHING from the most minute subatomic particles to the breadth of the entire Universe.
OK, well, those aren't the only things I would say. There might be some shouting. I can't rule that out.
I am not a religious person, but I am a cranky person, and I am holding out hope for green-skinned alien women.