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Originally Posted by Van Rijn
Could you provide references to the statements you are referring to? And show what specifically is false?
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Hi Van Rijn,
It is common knowledge that at least one of the Viking test results was positive. At the time it was published in all the scientific publications. The experiment showed that a sample Martian soil seized to convert oxygen to CO2 only after being zapped by laser. Shortly after, it was demonstrated that such behavior could occur in absence of any microorganisms and thus the test was declared inconclusive. You can see these issues referenced in a recent article that was discussed on this board as well as JonClarke's reply 7 on this thread.
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Another test demonstrated that even modest heating of the soil significantly depressed its response.
...Over the 30 years since the landing of Viking, more than 40 attempts have been made to explain the LR results abiologically. To this date, no experiment has duplicated or realistically approximated the Mars LR positive and control results except when using living microorganisms.
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Please click here for reference.
At some point after that and for some time NASA had taken the position that a positive test could be interpreted as a negative one. Scientifically speaking that is absurd and false. It is as if test A shows Mr. X has cancer (test is positive). Then test B shows he doesn't (test is negative). Then through a rift in space and time test A result becomes negative. That is not possible. Test A can be called
Inconclusive in light of test B result and even be proven
False Positive at some point but it will stay
Positive for an eternity. Nothing short of time travel can change that.
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The first wave of Mars exploration culminated in the Viking mission, which sent two orbiters and two landers to the planet in 1975. The landers included experiments that conducted chemical tests in search of life. Most scientists interpreted the results of these tests as negative, deflating hopes of a world where life is widespread.
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Please click here for reference.
It seems to me that there has been some degree of science corruption at work here perhaps due to human interactions.