ConqueringWolf
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Feb 23, 2005 19:56:27 GMT -5
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly discovered life form that froze on Earth some 30,000 years ago was apparently alive all that time and started swimming as soon as it thawed, a NASA (news - web sites) scientist reported on Wednesday, in a finding he said has implications for possible contemporary life on Mars. The organism -- a bacterium dubbed Carnobacterium pleistocenium -- probably flourished in the Pleistocene Age, along with woolly mammoths and saber-tooth tigers, said Richard Hoover of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. Hoover discovered the bacterium near the town of Fox, Alaska, in a tunnel drilled through permafrost -- a mix of permanently frozen ice, soil and rock -- that is kept at a constant temperature of 24.8 degrees F (minus 4 degrees C). "When they cut into the Fox tunnel, they actually cut through Pleistocene ice wedges, which are similar to structures that we see on Mars," Hoover said in a telephone interview. story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20050223/sc_nm/space_bacterium_dcSo if they find frozen life on mars.....they could possibly thaw it out and have it be alive
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xkamelx
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Post by xkamelx on Feb 25, 2005 15:46:50 GMT -5
Yes, I read this, and I do think that the chances of life being on Mars is greater then most people think. It really dosen't take that much to sustain a type of life, and the forumla dosen't appear to be as magical, or hard to come by as it would seem.
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Post by timewarp on Feb 26, 2005 19:56:44 GMT -5
That is pretty interesting. Give it a thousand years, and we will inhabit mars too. To bad we will destroy it three thousand years after that.
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