-> We found a living Earth microbe off a lens recovered from
-> a unmanned lander in one of the Apollo missions long after
-> it had sat there through years of U.V., radiation and heat - cold
-> cycles.

-> Microbes exist that thrive in boiling sulpher springs, smoking
-> chimneys on the ocean bottom and even in the primary cooling system
-> of nuclear reactors!

Oh I don't know. Microbes are most likely contamination. If our
evolution is any indication finding microbes is suspect because:
1) If they are remnants then where is evidence of other forms of life?
2) If they are new then Mars doesn't exactly have the kind of atmosphere
condusive to the birth of life. And if it is a type of life we do not
recognize then how do we know it is life?
3) If Mars was at one time worth life bearing then why only Microbes?
What halted further development of life? Is one of the bigger craters a
kin to the crater that wiped out dinosaurs? If yes then where is the
evidence for the impact besides the crater?

Oh, the questions.

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Jitender Saan