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Study finds Viking did find organics on Mars


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Scientists repeated a key Viking experiment using perchlorate-enhanced soil from Chile's Atacama Desert, which is considered one of the driest and most Mars-like places on Earth, and found telltale fingerprints of combusted organics -- the same chemicals Viking scientists dismissed as contaminants from Earth.

 

"Contrary to 30 years of perceived wisdom, Viking did detect organic materials on Mars," planetary scientist Christopher McKay, with NASA's Ames Research Center in California, told Discovery News. "It's like a 30-year-old cold case suddenly solved with new facts."

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cool, so if I go to mars I can eat all-organic :)

yes

 

Any word on Lentils?

lentils thrive in perchlorates so there is hope

 

Does this mean Farve's retirement is for real this time?

no, a martian year is nearly double an earth year meaning favre has not hit his prime

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