Soil On Mars May Contain Microbial Life!

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  • Viking
    Veteran
    • Jan 2004
    • 1772

    Soil On Mars May Contain Microbial Life!



    Martian soil may contain life
    Thu Aug 23 2007 11:30:10 ET

    The soil on Mars may contain microbial life!

    Joop Houtkooper of the University of Giessen, Germany, will declare on Friday the Viking spacecraft may have found signs of a weird life form based on hydrogen peroxide on the subfreezing, arid Martian surface.

    His analysis of one of the experiments carried out by the Viking spacecraft suggests that 0.1 percent of the Martian soil could be of biological origin.

    That is roughly comparable to biomass levels found in some Antarctic permafrost, home to a range of hardy bacteria and lichen.

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  • bueno bob
    DIAMOND STATUS
    • Jul 2004
    • 22820

    #2
    TAKE OFF EVERY ZIG! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DOING!













































































    You have no chance to survive, make your time.
    Twistin' by the pool.

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    • Hardrock69
      DIAMOND STATUS
      • Feb 2005
      • 21834

      #3
      THE TIME IS MAKE!!

      MICROBIAL IS THE WAY OF YOUR LANDER!!!!!

      VIKING IS SOIL!!!!

      MARS PERMAFROST = BOOBAGE!!!!


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      • Viking
        Veteran
        • Jan 2004
        • 1772

        #4
        Originally posted by Hardrock69:
        THE TIME IS MAKE!!

        MICROBIAL IS THE WAY OF YOUR LANDER!!!!!

        VIKING IS SOIL!!!



        Soylent Green is people!!!!!

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