Comments on: Scientist Smackdown: Are There Signs of Life in a Meteorite From Mars? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/03/scientist-smackdown-are-there-signs-of-life-in-a-meteorite-from-mars/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day's most compelling topics. Wed, 16 May 2012 19:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Clambaked http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/03/scientist-smackdown-are-there-signs-of-life-in-a-meteorite-from-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-76887 Clambaked Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:47:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=6958#comment-76887 Life! delicious spreadable life. How much would you pay to eat something as exotic as Martian marzipan? Life! delicious spreadable life. How much would you pay to eat something as exotic as Martian marzipan?

]]> By: Ron Bennett http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/03/scientist-smackdown-are-there-signs-of-life-in-a-meteorite-from-mars/comment-page-1/#comment-75659 Ron Bennett Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:37:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=6958#comment-75659 What is real or what is Memorex, an old TV commercial sums it all up. If we find life will we even know it??? For instance the things crawling around in the Phoenix Lander Microscopic imager like these time lapse movies from the raw images beamed down to earth as shown on YouTube and CNN American morning can't be independently verified therefore written off as movement caused by vibration -- yet the Arizona Phoenix Lander science team has determined that the Lander is in a place that scientist say has all the necessary ingredients to sustain life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhfSjJeQf58 The movement of the crab-like objects with a scorpion like tail and maggot like objects can't be simply explained by vibration, if there were some vibration wouldn't a live object move a bit more, I know I would. If you were taken out of your environment wouldn't you try to find your back before the extreme environment kills you... You judge for yourself, is it real or is it an illusion??? What is real or what is Memorex, an old TV commercial sums it all up. If we find life will we even know it???

For instance the things crawling around in the Phoenix Lander Microscopic imager like these time lapse movies from the raw images beamed down to earth as shown on YouTube and CNN American morning can’t be independently verified therefore written off as movement caused by vibration — yet the Arizona Phoenix Lander science team has determined that the Lander is in a place that scientist say has all the necessary ingredients to sustain life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhfSjJeQf58

The movement of the crab-like objects with a scorpion like tail and maggot like objects can’t be simply explained by vibration, if there were some vibration wouldn’t a live object move a bit more, I know I would. If you were taken out of your environment wouldn’t you try to find your back before the extreme environment kills you…

You judge for yourself, is it real or is it an illusion???

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