[extropy-chat] Confirmation of microbes in Mars meteorite

[Russell Evermore]

I very much like the possibility that life here on Earth may have originated
on Mars. Despite the "God of War" mythology (which does tend to explain a
few things) the possibility that two independent instances of genesis might
arise in a single star system seems more than a little disturbing. The Fermi
Paradox looms up in our faces and we must contend with interstellar
predators, duplicitous Visitors, imminent self-destruction, or doorways
leading to parallel universes, miniated with apparently compelling moral
imperatives to step into them.

I'd really rather be a Martian.

RE
nanowave at shaw.ca


> Confirmation of microbes in Mars meteorite


> 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
>
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