XPost: alt.future.millennium, alt.religion.kibology, alt.slack   
   XPost: alt.webtrance, sci.skeptic, alt.society.neutopia   
   From: targeting@OMCL.mil   
      
   On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:36:14 -0500, barbara@bookpro.com wrote:   
      
   } On 27 Dec 2003 12:35:35 GMT, revjack  wrote:   
   }   
   } >In alt.religion.kibology Doktor DynaSoar  wrote:   
   } >: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:21:42 +0200, _Schwann_   
   } >:  wrote:   
   } >   
   } >: } Too bad about Beagle, but it was predictable.   
   } >: } Since the Successful Viking Missions quarter of a century   
   } >: } ago, the Landers whose L.R. devices indicated positive   
   } >: } for life,   
   } >   
   } >: More correctly and specifically, one test showed results which could   
   } >: indicate life, or could indicate another process, like oxygen being   
   } >: released from martian soil when hydrated. Sagan gave that one a 50%.   
   } >: The other test was completely inconclusive.   
   } >   
   } >Presumably those Viking robots have an alibi, yes?   
   }   
   } I am still WAITING for you to post more sappier stuff.  It is now just   
   } after Hmas, when you said you would.   
      
   Easy, these things take time. It took me almost a month to get back up   
   to speed. But then I was gone for a year.   
      
      
   They may well have HAD alabis. But we'd never know if they were true   
   or not. All we know is what they tell us. We can't see them from here.   
      
   Sometimes I think that the entire Mars civilization has a field day   
   when our probes land, and they think up goofy stuff they can cram into   
   the testing sensors, just to mess with us.   
      
   [JPL, June 23, 2014] Scientists today announced the results of the   
   latest environmental tests by the third generation Mars Rover. The   
   surface testing system data indicates that the ground around Olympus   
   Mons consists of a sticky, green substance. It was so adhesive that in   
   order to remove it from the sampling system, the remote controllers   
   were had to rapidly manipulate the leading arm of the scoop against   
   the stationary arm, and "flick" the sample off. Chemical analysis   
   shows the sample to have a high sodium chloride content. The team   
   leader said "It's a strange result, sure, but at least it's not as   
   strange as the one last week. That one had every indication of being a   
   sample of excrement. But we haven't seen any life yet. Where there's   
   no life, there can be no excrement.   
      
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