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Plyss
Skeptic Friend
Netherlands
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 Posted - 11/30/2004 : 07:53:11
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Some cool stuff i found while browsing the internet today. I thought i'd dump it into the cre/evo folder because of its potential link to abiogenesis.
That NY times site requires registration though, and the Journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life might require university access.
Methane in Martian Air Suggests Life Beneath the Surface
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Speaking this month at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Louisville, Ky., Dr. Michael Mumma, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reported three years of observations had provided strong evidence for methane.
"We are 99 percent confident," Dr. Mumma said. "It surprised all of us, actually. We really are still scrambling to understand what it means."
Growth of Methanogens on a Mars Soil Simulant
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A potential habitat for existence of methanogens on Mars might be a geothermal source of hydrogen, possibly due to volcanic or hydrothermal activity, or the reaction of basalt and anaerobic water, carbon dioxide, which is abundant in the martian atmosphere, and of course, subsurface liquid water. We report here that certain methanogens can grow on a Mars soil simulant when supplied with carbon dioxide, molecular hydrogen, and varying amounts of water.
Of course this is still just speculation, but damnit, i wanna see the first Mars-bugs on a petridish ;)
That journal seems to have some nice articles, i think i'll browse through a few back-issues when i have the time for it in the upcoming holidays.
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/30/2004 : 08:22:17 [Permalink]
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Thats two for life, with the magnegtic bacteria things they found in the antarctica rock.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/marslife.html |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 11/30/2004 : 08:52:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Thats two for life, with the magnegtic bacteria things they found in the antarctica rock.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/marslife.html
It is coming on to being fascinating. I don't know enough about it yet to comment. Looking forward to when I do.
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