[extropy-chat] Confirmation of microbes in Mars meteorite

[Emlyn O'regan]

We're all from Mars: scientists
Graeme Webber
January 30, 2004
THE Martians are not coming - they've probably already arrived on earth. And
we could be their descendants.

Two Australian scientists have developed new technology to confirm claims by
NASA that a meteorite from Mars found in Antarctica in 1984 contained
microscopic fossils from the red planet. 
Scientists have fiercely debated whether the ancient, microscopic compounds
were deposited by ancient bacteria or natural chemical reactions - and
whether such bacteria was Martian or moved in after the meteorite fell to
earth. 
But biophysicist Dr Tony Taylor from the Australian Nuclear Science and
Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in Sydney and the University of Queensland's
Professor John Barry devised a new technique which they say affirms the
Martian microbe theory "beyond reasonable doubt". 

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8533660%255E15306,00.html


Emlyn