Is There Living Green Algae in the Gusev Crater on Mars?

Michael McKay, Flight Operations Director, European Space Agency, Darmstadt, Germany: "It's a very good question. When you look at these pictures, there are so many images it evokes of our own planet, Earth, and actually with our own perception of vegetation and what it looks like or possible signs of life. read more here

BBC staff vent fury at Dyke going - Jan. 31, 2004

Critics say the involvement of Blair officials in the outing of Kelly was papered over, while the underlying question of Blair's case for war was ignored.

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The Enterprise Mission

Mars Express - Gusev Image
Is this why NASA is lying about the true colors of mars?
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Mars Colors - Blue Or Brown? Discrepancies To Ponder

Here is an ESA photo that shows a pronounced blue color in a crater (lower right-hand corner). Enlarge the photo for a closer look. Lots, though not all Martian craters, have these sorts of dark "splotches" in them. We **never** have seen the color of these splotches in the NASA/JPL/MSSS photos
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How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age...

the citizens of Europe and the Pentagon are taking a new look at the greatest danger such climate change could produce for the northern hemisphere - a sudden shift into a new ice age. What they're finding is not at all comforting.
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Thoughts on the Coming "Discovery" of bin Laden -- The Best Propaganda Money Can Buy

Unless preparations are made for its eventuality, the announcement of Bin Laden's capture will be the death-knell for the 2004 Democratic campaign
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Christian foot soldiers battle for Bush

The city is capital of the "New South" and one of the areas where conservative Christians remain steadfastly loyal to their evangelical president, and the Republican party machine that sustains him in the White House. read more here

Conservative Sportsmen Turn Against Bush

This groundswell of conservative opposition to the administration's environmental policies is not limited to the Tongass. Hunting and fishing conservation vs. resource development on public lands is a growing issue throughout traditional GOP enclaves in the American West. Along Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, for example, protests from sportsmen on natural gas exploration are ringing out.read more here

Life once existed on Mars, Australian scientists say

They have found that microscopic fossils of primitive bacteria-like organisms in a Mars meteorite match characteristics of bacteria found in mud in Queensland.

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US Plans Spring Offensive in Pakistan

The U.S. military is making plans for an offensive that would reach inside Pakistan in coming months to try to destroy operations of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network read more here

China may be worlds ahead in building lunar legacy / U.S. hampered by economy, short-term plans, analysts warn

Since 2001, Chinese officials have stressed their desire to establish a manned lunar base. Their reasons include developing its potential commercial resources including helium-3, iron and titanium, which could be shipped back to Earth, and frozen water, which could provide oxygen and drinking water for the colonists.

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Bird flu epidemic is 'worst in history'

The scale of the epidemic is unprecedented, says Klaus Stöhr, a senior virologist at the World Health Organization. "Never in history have we seen such outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza over such a wide area, simultaneously," read it here

U.S. scientists create new form of matter

The new matter form is called a fermionic condensate and it is the sixth known form of matter -- after gases, solids, liquids, plasma and a Bose-Einstein condensate, created only in 1995.

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Undeniable Proof of Green "Fields" on Mars

Although the picture (Fig. 2) description says little about these obviously organic areas I think the "showing" is an intentional tongue in cheek act. There’s really no denying the fact that there is an active biological process taking place on Mars. See it here (Scroll near bottom).... and Read it here...

Earthfiles.com - Opportunity Lands on Mars - in "Muddy" Hematite?

"I will attempt no science analysis, because it looks like nothing I've ever seen before. I've got no words for this. I am flabbergasted. I am astonished. I am blown away. Opportunity has touched down in a bizarre alien landscape." - Steven Squyres, Principal Investigator, Cornell University. read more here

'Holy grail' of water on Mars within reach

However, the Mars Express instrument likely to provide the most exciting data has yet to be switched on. The Marsis radar altimeter, which is not scheduled for activation until April, will map the structure of Mars to a depth of several miles. Ancient caverns filled with water, which could provide homes for living beings, could be pinpointed this way.

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Scientists Read Last Rites for Beagle Mars Lander

"We still believe that we were the only lander with experiments on board to find if there has been life...and to take it further to find if there is still life on Mars," he said.

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NASA Ames Center looks at problem of drilling on mars

Briggs said NASA has been working with Halliburton, Shell, Baker-Hughes and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to identify drilling technologies that might work on Mars.

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