From: Philip Witham (pwitham@cts.com)
Date: Thu Aug 21 1997 - 09:49:20 MDT
> From: Anders Sandberg <nv91-asa@nada.kth.se>
> I'm sceptical; saying it is fungi and bacteria sounds a bit too bold.
Indeed. The previous episode of hoopla regarding martian "microfossils"
seemed quite a bit too bold. I recently processed some Pt/Ir wire tips in
an arc and created a micro-forest of interesting structures. When viewed
in an SEM, there was an area covered with short, tubular, round-ended
structures that would have better passed for "bacteria" than the those in
the martian sample. I'm told that such things can form
electro-chemically, also. Personally, I think someone at NASA was trying
(valiantly) to get the general public fired up for an expanded Mars
program.
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