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Microscopic Fuzz May Be Best Evidence of Martians

Posted March 31, 2008 8:39 AM

From SPACE.com:

If Martian life existed a few billion years ago, scientists think any plant-like microbes would have left behind a stringy fuzz of fibers. That's because here on Earth, researchers now say they have found such ancient fuzz, called cellulose, preserved in chunks of salt deposited more than 250 million years ago — making it the oldest biological substance yet recovered. The announcement comes about a week after a team of planetary scientists announced discovering evaporated salt deposits on Mars and adds another element of hope to the search for alien life or signs of its past biology.

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Re: Microscopic Fuzz May Be Best Evidence of Martians

03/31/2008 8:40 PM

There are many anomalies regarding Mars and the Mars Explorations by NASA etc.

The networks of lines appear to be regular structures of several metres high, because of the shadows cast, interwoven sometimes in pairs, and look like hollow tubes, with partly transparent exterior surfaces, and reinforced areas laterally.

No official explanation has yet been given for these formations.

Likewise, Mar's Sky is really blue, and rocks do have green patches.

Quote below from: "Mars the Living Planet" by Barry Digregorio, Dr Gilbert Levin and Dr. Pat Straat. Page 142.

<"About 2:00pm PDT on July 21st 1976, the first colour pictures arrived at JPL, with Mars showing its beautiful blue sky, brown and reddish soil, and rocks with patches of green.

You and I never saw the true images, according to the men who worked at the Viking Image Formatting and Processing section of JPL.

Mr. Van der Woude says: "Both Ron Wichelman and I were responsible for the colour quality control of the Viking Lander photographs, and Dr. Tomas Mutch, the Viking Imaging Team Leader told us he got a call from the NASA Administrator asking that we destroy the Mars blue sky negative created from the digital data". The images were then falsely reddened to make it appear that there was no life, no green algae or lichen on the planet.">

The above book goes on to explain how the tests for the existence of life on Mars were rigged to deny life, despite the relatively favourable conditions. Dr. Gilbert V. Levin, who was in charge of the Viking Lander experiments, revealed that when the Mars soil was examined by on-board instruments in a miniature laboratory, there was a startling positive response.

Hieroglyphic type markings have been located on rocks etc, in many Martian images, along with other oddities.

There is much more information available, for the careful researcher.

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04/02/2008 8:26 AM

Funny, isn't it, how we are just now discovering things like this on our own planet, while developing the capability to search for similar things on another one? Goes to show how much discovery there is left here at home. There's so little we know, really, about how our own biome developed. Yet, we are also busily engaged in destroying much of that biome, everything from rain forests to coral reefs. It's been estimated how many species are going extinct before we can discover and classify them, and the number is frightenly, dismayingly even, large...

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