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Old 15-January-2009, 01:32 AM
Paul Scott Anderson Paul Scott Anderson is offline
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Originally Posted by cjameshuff View Post
The part about life or geological activity is straight from the NASA press release: "NASA will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 15, to discuss analysis of the Martian atmosphere that raises the possibility of life or geologic activity."
Exactly. The NASA release itself used that phrase, Doug and Trakar, so no, it is not premature or misleading or sensationalistic. Life or active geology are a possibility, and I stated it as such, nothing more. That is the phrase which sums up what the press conference is about, so I don't know how you could have missed it.

I usually do add a bit more than just a link, but was busy with other things as well, so sorry about that. I also meant before that the release itself was self-explanatory, not the thread title, and it is clear it is a bona-fide NASA release, if you just look at it. It was also being distributed among other space and NASA-related RSS feeds, etc. so I was actually surprised no one else had mentioned it yet before me.

There is a rather sensationalistic sounding article title on Drudge Report right now though...
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