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Some pesky scientists have just pointed out an appalling design error in NASA’s latest attempts to find life on Mars. This is beginning to look like a conspiracy. Does someone not want us to find life on Mars?
NASA has tried looking for signs of life on Mars precisely once, in the 1976 Viking mission. The result was positive. The reason nobody says there is life on Mars is that another experiment, part of the same mission, couldn’t find any carbon-based “organic” chemicals in Martian soil. This, NASA decided, overruled the other result: with no carbon present, there could be no microbes living on or under the surface of Mars.
Last year, the Phoenix lander repeated the carbon search and failed to find organic molecules. The problem is, we know that there ought to be organic molecules on Mars. Asteroid and comet impacts will have put them there. So what’s going on?
Originally posted by Parallex
I think the bold text shown here will give you an idea of why this article was written.
Originally posted by Parallex
I think the bold text shown here will give you an idea of why this article was written.
Enough said. Sorry to wee on your bonfire.
The Para.
Originally posted by Elliot
Great thread!
Just as Father Ernetti chose to say that his Chronovisor / Time Machine did not work, rather than admit that Christ was not crucified and did not exist in the form the Bible paints him, so the Mars Mission to search for life would rather say it 'failed' than admit the truth!
When truth is driven by ideals, then there is no truth any longer!
The problem is, as NASA's Douglas Ming (the Merciless) has pointed out in a recent paper, the experiments..
Originally posted by Parallex
Enough said. Sorry to wee on your bonfire.
The Para.