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20-11-2012, 11:43 PM
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Big News From Mars?
Found this interesting article Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
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The exciting results are coming from an instrument in the rover called SAM. "We're getting data from SAM as we sit here and speak, and the data looks really interesting," says John Grotzinger. He's the principal investigator for the rover mission. Last week I visited him in his office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. That's where data from SAM first arrives on Earth. "The science team is busily chewing away on it as it comes down," says Grotzinger.
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Could this be the big question answered? Mars did/has life? why cant they just say what it looks like?, why keep "mum" about it?
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21-11-2012, 12:20 AM
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SAM only made its first soil analysis a couple of weeks ago, so it
will be interesting what traces they find. If they are this excited,
then at a minimum it will show that it could have potentially harbored life.
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21-11-2012, 01:16 AM
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The first question they will be asking, is where did it originate from?
It could well have originated from Earth.
Or did life on Earth originate from Mars??
Either way, it's going to be exciting.
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21-11-2012, 05:45 AM
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There is no substitute
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oooh this could be gooooood 
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21-11-2012, 06:49 AM
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Exciting stuff. Can't wait 
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21-11-2012, 07:22 AM
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Sounds exciting!
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21-11-2012, 08:13 AM
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That's going to be good! Can't wait to hear what it is. Maybe they found organics?
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21-11-2012, 09:20 AM
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Ooooh yes, it will be exciting.
Perhaps the discovery will herald a new era in science, if it is what we are hoping for.
On a gloomier note, what kind of dampeners will the creationists fabricate?
Cheers
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21-11-2012, 09:24 AM
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I for one welcome our new Martian overlords.
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21-11-2012, 10:12 AM
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No obs, raising Harrison
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They have found John Carter, and are giving him a lift back to Virginia?
Seriously, hope they take their time with it, and don't go all Bill Clinton with the announcement. Bit like the (possible) Richard III DNA testing taking place in the UK.
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21-11-2012, 10:35 AM
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Lost in Space ....
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Has some one been fly tipping up there already ? Dang it !
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21-11-2012, 03:41 PM
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Support your local RFS
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This all sounds very intriguing.
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21-11-2012, 06:04 PM
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Since the news concerns the fifth sample that SAM has analysed my bet is that there are organics found in this sample. Whether they can identify specifically each organic from its spectrum will take some time but there is my bet. This will enhance the possibility of idependant life in select Eco-systems on mars.
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21-11-2012, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by allan gould
Since the news concerns the fifth sample that SAM has analysed my bet is that there are organics found in this sample.
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But crucially its first soil sample. Previously SAM had only been sniffing air.
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21-11-2012, 07:30 PM
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Politically incorrect.
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Originally Posted by Baddad
Ooooh yes, it will be exciting.
On a gloomier note, what kind of dampeners will the creationists fabricate?
Cheers
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I'm still waiting for confirmation that their is actually signs of intelligent life on earth.... 
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21-11-2012, 07:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by allan gould
Since the news concerns the fifth sample that SAM has analysed my bet is that there are organics found in this sample. Whether they can identify specifically each organic from its spectrum will take some time but there is my bet. This will enhance the possibility of idependant life in select Eco-systems on mars.
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Hopefully not something carried over from Earth with the lander. Hence the caution perhaps.
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21-11-2012, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Irish stargazer
Hopefully not something carried over from Earth with the lander. Hence the caution perhaps.
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Indeed. The first air sample indicated methane, which apparently had been carried
there from Cape Canaveral.
But at the end of the day, the scientific process is always to do the experiment, write the
paper, the paper is peer reviewed and then published (or sent back), then once published, a press release is made.
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21-11-2012, 08:22 PM
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Probably just something General Zod, Ursa and Non left behind when they flew in from Krypton on the way to Earth.
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22-11-2012, 09:24 AM
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From Rom,
I'm still waiting for confirmation that their is actually signs of intelligent life on earth....
LOL... Cheers
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22-11-2012, 11:33 AM
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Here is a recording from John Grotzinger in a radio interview talking about it.
Found this part from the interview very interesting 
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PALCA: Put a sample of Martian soil or rock or even air inside SAM and it will tell you what the sample's made of. Right now, SAM is working on a Mars soil sample, and Grotzinger says the results are earth-shaking.
GROTZINGER: This data is going to be one for the history books. It's looking really good.
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