Comment Re:Knee-jerk reaction (Score 5, Interesting) 33
"the proposal lacked specific scientific questions to be answered, testable hypotheses, and proposed measurements and assessment of uncertainties and limitations."
Sounds like the report was written by physicists, not geologists or biologists.
I figure "we're going to look around, crack open a few rocks and do some chemical analyses to see what's there" is pretty good science.
On the other hand I also wonder why in almost 40 years nobody has yet tried repeating the labeled-release experiment on Viking which tested positive per the pre-mission criteria for signs of life.