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Originally Posted by Ronald Brak
Pristine? Some of those meteorites landed in manure. Claims were made in 2000 that extraterrestrial life had been found in them. Strangely enough exactly the sort of life you find on a rock if you throw in the middle of a farmyard.
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I don't know you well enough to assess possible sarcasm.
The possible life detected in the Martian meteorite was not anything like what you would find if you flung it in a barnyard. In fact it was like nothing on earth at all.
It was uniquely small, which is in fact one of the things that led to the current understanding that it was not life.
However, I would say the case is not closed; like many things in science, the investigation goes on.