[meteorite-list] Organics on Mars?

From: Phil Whitmer <prairiecactus_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:19:50 -0400
Message-ID: <AC3048F3A69C4F67B14527ADF669858E_at_ET>

On Mars, building blocks of life?:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/03/AR2010090302919.html?hpid=topnews


Or maybe Mars is just a cold desolate lifeless place and always has been?
Imagine a similar probe sent to Earth. It would detect life from the top of
the troposphere down to the thermophilic hydrogen absorbing bacteria living
probably all the way down to the core of the planet.
You can't swing a dead cat on a rope anywhere on this planet-except maybe
Atacama and Antarctica-without hitting a living organism. Why on Earth
(Mars) do people still believe there is life on Mars past or present without
any solid
(or liquid) evidence to back it up? I mean, they can't even detect organic
compounds when the stuff rains down like
pennies from heaven? Like the article says; maybe we've found it, but we
just don't know we found it. And maybe
red rain is blood from Martian bats.

Phil Whitmer
Received on Fri 03 Sep 2010 05:19:50 PM PDT