NewsFilter - More evidence of life on mars

February 17, 2005 3:03 PM

Life - a strong case for life on mars was presented sunday
posted by sourbrew (12 comments total)

Double post.
posted by barjo at 3:21 PM on February 17, 2005

damnation.... delete please
posted by sourbrew at 3:23 PM on February 17, 2005

sourbrew....ouch!
posted by j.p. Hung at 3:41 PM on February 17, 2005

Isn't a damnation just a whole lot of beavers living together?
posted by fenriq at 4:15 PM on February 17, 2005

David Bowie is smiling.
posted by 1016 at 4:19 PM on February 17, 2005

wait - there's a whole lot of beavers living together on Mars?

that's gay.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:31 PM on February 17, 2005

why can't we delete posts when we muck up?
posted by trinarian at 8:20 PM on February 17, 2005

A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.

I bet those fuckers have weapons of mass destruction!
posted by flabdablet at 12:33 AM on February 18, 2005

I really don't think it's appropriate to be making fun of a damnation of gay beavers living together on Mars... unless they do have WMDs.

Although gay beavers would explain a lot. It would explain why there are no trees on Mars, little or no running water, and, well, so very few martian beavers.
posted by Davenhill at 12:51 AM on February 18, 2005

This means we've already broken the Prime Directive.
posted by biffa at 8:22 AM on February 18, 2005

Ahem:

NASA STATEMENT ON FALSE CLAIM OF EVIDENCE OF LIFE ON MARS

News reports on February 16, 2005, that NASA scientists from Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have found strong evidence that life may exist on Mars are incorrect.

NASA does not have any observational data from any current Mars missions that supports this claim. The work by the scientists mentioned in the reports cannot be used to directly infer anything about life on Mars, but may help formulate the strategy for how to search for martian life. Their research concerns extreme environments on Earth as analogs of possible environments on Mars. No research paper has been submitted by them to any scientific journal asserting martian life.

Sorry, no link, but sent to me by a friend at NASA.
posted by jokeefe at 3:35 PM on February 18, 2005

So, not only is this sleeper cell of gay beavers concealing a WMD program in some obscure cave on Mars, but they're close enough to the Bush Administration to prompt an official cover-up!

Bloody typical.
posted by flabdablet at 4:23 PM on February 18, 2005