Jan 08 2007

Life on Mars?

Did NASA scientists discover - butÂ not recognizeÂ - microbial life on Mars back in the 70s? Maybe. Check this out. Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a geology professor at Washington State University, states in a paper presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle that NASA’s Viking mission to Mars of the 1970s was looking for life like that found on Earth: in which the internal liquid of living cells is salt water. However, Schulze-Makuch argues, taking into consideration the cold, dry conditions that exist on the red planet, life might have evolved there with the internal fluid comprised of water and hydrogen-peroxide.

We need to remember that life “out there” may indeed be profoundly different to anything we have imagined thus far - or perhaps even anything we currentlyÂ can imagine, given our current lack of firm knowledge on the subject.

We also need to remember that the discovery of any form of life that originates outside of the Earth has profound implications for not just mainstream science but for Ufology, too. It doesn’t matter if that life is in the form of a classic, black-eyed, big-headed alien, or is in the form of a tiny microbe - as per the NASA story. Life is life. If microbial life exists on Mars, then who knows what awaits us elsewhere?

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