WASHINGTON - NASA’s Viking Mars probes may have found living organisms when they landed on Mars 30 years ago, but possibly destroyed them by exposing them to water, according to two astrobiologists.

“I think the Viking results have been a little bit neglected in the last 10 years or more,” Dirk Schulze-Makuch told the American Astronomical Society meeting from the weekend through Wednesday in Seattle, Washington state.


Khaleej Times Online - US probes may have found life on Mars 30 years ago


What do you think?

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I think it's irrelevant.

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I think it is pretty much the way of humans. ^_^ Find something new and kill it.

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Space murder? Sounds like our MO.

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I'm not convinced they killed anything. The terms " may have" and "possibly" is vague evidence at best.

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Military might doesn't make up for political stupidity.

A point that is are more certain is that we "contaminated" Mars with microbiologic life.

As those space probes even though, they are intensively decontaminated, still carry life with them. The point might be, even if there was no life before, chances are existant that there is life after the visits. And if there should have been life there already before, the gigantic impact of new forms of life suddenly joining can not be overestimated.


In fact potentially extremely dangerous it could get when the first probe returns from mars in the future. Than we will risk contaminating the earth with mars life. You simply dont know if it can survive here. If it can it will have to be considered as potentially very dangerous.

People understimate that.

Well I cant say its a bad thing if we killed life on Mars, I mean we may need Mars in the future to colonize or mine for resourses and we dont want the first people who arrive there to be killed by alien diseases now do we?

Heh.... Considering we haven't found life anywhere else in the universe thusfar... I would say that it is a bad thing to kill the first life we find. It would help to answer many questions as well as raise some new legitimate ones.........

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I suspect is that either true or a fake?

wow now we suck for exploring space

a new twist on the USA sucks

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