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Originally Posted by MeteorWayne
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.
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He couldn't have been talking about the Martian meteorite, as that didn't land in a farmyard. It landed in Antarctica.
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