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Old 24-August-2007, 12:57 PM
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They've been declaring that they've found "evidence that maybe there might have once been life that could have done this" for every soil sample they've taken.
Yes; and a leaf on my driveway is evidence that a bald eagle may have put it there.
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Until they find cell walls, or active chemical processes, or something concrete and direct it's speculative.
That's been my question since the story broke... What do we need to do to use that minor piece of information and expand on it? What other chemicals, byproducts, tests, whatever are associated with H2O2 life?

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The question is, is it interesting enough that we should design experiments on future missions to test for this kind of life more aggressively?
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