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Discussion: microbial life in Mars

Emir ekhatipo at NOSPAMmidway.uchicago.edu
Wed Feb 14 19:59:02 EST 2001


If you are really interested, you can go to ncbi site (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
and search pubmed for nannobacteria, nanobacteria, nanobes. You will get a
number of references about samples of rocks from Mars that showed some sort
of bacteria-like structures under transmission and scanning microscopes.
However, since most of the studies in this particular field lack appropriate
controls, it seems like it is just an attempt to take desired for a real.

I am myself quite optimistic about the possibility of other life forms to be
existent in the Solar system, but no evidence of any king of life on our
neighbor planets have been found so far.

Emir


"Albano Neira Navarro" <anena at eresmas.com> wrote in message
news:4Qdi6.116467$9v2.1635470 at quark.idirect.com...
> What all this community think about the posibility of find mic life in
Mars?
> It wouldn't be so difficult, 'cause Mars has geological activity and, time
> ago, it had water on its surface. Maybe are some kind of prochariots
> underground, near to active zones where they would find heat enough (this
> idea is not mine, of course)
>    Well, enough by my side by the moment. It would be fantastic if all of
> you paste here your ideas; at least for me :) I think it's a theme really
> interesting.
>
> No more. Thanks a lot.
>
>







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