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-Short Attention Span Theater-
First Extraterrestrialcide!!
2007-01-08
WASHINGTON - Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have stumbled upon alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist theorizes in a paper released Sunday.
The tragity! Call Jessie Jackson!
The problem was the Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life and didn't recognize it, the researcher said in a paper presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle.
Sorry, naked Martian babes don't exist, yet
This new report, based on a more expansive view of where life can take root, may have NASA looking for a different type of Martian life form when its next Mars spacecraft is launched later this year, one of the space agency's top scientists told The Associated Press.

Last month, scientists excitedly reported that new photographs of Mars showed geologic changes that suggest water occasionally flows there — the most tantalizing sign that Mars is hospitable to life.
Screw the damn water. Where is the beer?
Posted by:DarthVader

#14  :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2007-01-08 22:11  

#13  If there is nobody capable of decoding, then it would be the ultimate in security, Commodore Frank. Crank out the Code, JM, with gusto!
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2007-01-08 21:56  

#12  JM would be EXCELLENT as a Code-talker, question is, would there be anyone capable to decode?
Posted by: Frank G   2007-01-08 21:40  

#11  Joseph, does indeed at times, rule! :)
Posted by: borgboy   2007-01-08 21:29  

#10  OWG + ANTI-US GLOBAL SOCIALISM NOW, D *** ng it, as AIR GUARD PILOT DUBYA [ergo America] illegally = mistakenly wiped out Mars back in the '70's.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-01-08 20:38  

#9  The black obelisk is gonna be pissed.
Posted by: ed   2007-01-08 19:56  

#8  Kirk:

Not Orion, Mars. Besides, it was Christopher Pike who met the Orion Slave Girl™.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2007-01-08 17:03  

#7  Deja Thoris, John Carter, and green-skinned, 4-armed Martian warriors had better watch out! Earth's space probes are only the first step in our own long-planned invasion of the red planet.

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2007-01-08 15:28  

#6  Mars. Needs. Women.
Posted by: Free Radical   2007-01-08 14:01  

#5  Keep in mind the story was filtered through a press officer.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-01-08 13:22  

#4  One good thing about Mars, if it's empty, is that we won't have to interspecies fight for land while we Terrform it in Earth 2.0.
Posted by: Spomort Greling4204   2007-01-08 13:17  

#3  Feh! This guy needs to do more research. There's a lot more to a Bombardier's defensive secretions than hydrogen peroxide. The hydrogen peroxide is a catalyst for a benzoquinone fluid. It heats in a reaction chamber and discharges in a jet-like spray. Temps can reach 180-degrees F (I know from Thomas Eisner's book "For Love Of Insects" and after doing a lot of research for a book I'm currently writing).

There's also a lotof difference between an animal which can produce hydrogen peroxide via specialized cells and having those cells be based on hydrogen peroxide. The Bombardier is still a typical terrestrial beetle.

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2007-01-08 11:44  

#2  Hydrogen peroxide... isn't that what fuels Russian torps and sank the Kursk when it blew? And that British sub a long time ago?
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2007-01-08 10:13  

#1  any green chicks? I love green chicks
Posted by: Captain Kirk   2007-01-08 10:01  

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