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MARS-LIFE THEORY DIES?
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University of Greenwich Public Relations Unit
http://www.gre.ac.uk/general/pr/471.htm
1 August 2000
DOUBT CAST ON LIFE ON MARS: UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
REPRODUCES CHEMICAL STRUCTURES FOUND IN METEORITES
The complex chemical structures found in a meteorite from Mars, which
scientists in 1996 hailed as possible evidence of past life on the
planet, can be reproduced quite simply in any laboratory according to
new research from the University of Greenwich. Professor Aron Vecht and
researcher Terry Ireland from the university's School of Chemical & Life
Sciences say that the special structures - which are shaped like flowers
and spheres - could have been formed on the cold surface of Mars from
minerals commonly occurring there. Their findings cast grave doubts on
the possibility of Martian life.
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MARS-LIFE THEORY LIVES?
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BIOSPHERICS
http://www.biospherics.com/VHTML/html/PressRelease/Pr080100.html
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Email: gillevin@biospherics.com
August 1st, 2000
SCIENTISTS STRENGTHEN PROSPECTS FOR LIFE ON MARS
New Information Supports Claim Viking Discovered Life in 1976
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
SAN DIEGO, CA., August 1, 2000. -- On the heels of NASA's decision
to land new rovers on Mars, the debate over the existence of life
on the red planet is heating up. Dr. Gilbert V. Levin, a chief
proponent, today advanced his claim to finding living microorganisms
on the elusive planet 25 years ago. Dr. Levin, one of a trio of
scientists, including himself and another who participated in NASA's
Viking Mission, was presenting a paper at the Annual Meeting of the
International Society for Optical Engineering refuting the mainstay
arguments against life on Mars. He contends that those arguments-the
presumed absence of organic matter and of liquid water-are no longer tenable.
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Asking the "wrong questions," challenging the Official Story
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