The problem with these data is that the Atacama Desert is considered to be a sterile environment with no microbes in the soil as well. You can have organics but that's nowhere near the same as having life. So they have proved that there may be organics in the perchlorate rich soil of mars, just as there is in Atacama. Big deal. Unless they stumble across a previously unknown temperate belt on Mars as well, I'm not going to be preparing to sell my SNCs to people with more money than sense just yet.
Rob McC --- On Fri, 7/1/11, Count Deiro <countde...@earthlink.net> wrote: > From: Count Deiro <countde...@earthlink.net> > Subject: [meteorite-list] Organics on Mars > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Date: Friday, 7 January, 2011, 19:39 > They've been sitting on this for > thirty years. I predict NASA will confirm biological life > has existed on Mars by the end of the year. The price per > gram for SNCs will explode. Unfortunately, the loons out > there will be pushing the ersatz martians and the main > stream media will be complicit. > > http://news.discovery.com/space/viking-mars-organics-experiment.html > > Best to all, > > Count Deiro > IMCA 3536 > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
