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Ceffer
2020 Aug 2, 6:02pm
Ceffer
2020 Aug 2, 6:02pm
It's the great Mars Bacteria Fart Controversy.
The Guv is afraid of religious people and seems to have an investment in the superstition racket. Even subjects like 'remote viewing' brings out the fundamentalist Satan rage in a surprising number of powerful people.
They have just recently acknowledged the UFO phenomenon, veering from the previous stance that if sky objects du jour didn't represent a threat in our air space, then they were none of our business. This turn of events of revealing UFOs in baby steps seems to be an experiment of sorts.
The Guv is afraid of religious people and seems to have an investment in the superstition racket. Even subjects like 'remote viewing' brings out the fundamentalist Satan rage in a surprising number of powerful people.
They have just recently acknowledged the UFO phenomenon, veering from the previous stance that if sky objects du jour didn't represent a threat in our air space, then they were none of our business. This turn of events of revealing UFOs in baby steps seems to be an experiment of sorts.
But the Principle Investigator, Gil Levin, was a civil engineer, and the other “looking for life experiment” with 6 PhD’s on it including Carl Sagan saw nothing. NASA ordered Gil not to claim he had found life, and began to make a series of objections that this could be done by non-life. Each time, Gil would show that the objection didn’t work.
(a)UV light sterilizes the soil (Gil got some dirt from under a rock). (b) super metallo-peroxides in the soil of mars (no peroxides ever seen on mars) (c) perchlorate in the soil (unstable). In the end NASA told the world that Mars was too dry, which from 1976 to 2006 was the standard story. This despite the fact that in 1976 NASA studied snow on mars. Then came the pictures of water flowing down the walls of a crater, and NASA had to backtrack, but still maintained Gil’s data was false, because no other signs of life existed.
Then came the European announcement of methane on mars (an organic molecule), and the 3-yr delayed announcement that Mars Curiosity rover had seen chloromethane (another organic molecule).
Bit by bit, Gil is being vindicated, and the old guard at NASA retiring. Gil turns 88 this year, perhaps he will live long enough to get the Nobel he deserves.
The story is complex and messy, as many such are. It’s a complete mystery to some of us why NASA would keep the find quiet. Why would Carl Sagan matter so much more to the agency than its own future? That remains a more profound puzzle than the evidence.
https://uncommondescent.com/extraterrestrial-life/did-viking-discover-life-on-mars-forty-years-ago/
https://phys.org/news/2016-10-year-old-viking-life-mars.html