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Comment I'm a Sweet Oxygen-Hating Microbe from... (Score 1) 91

So lets see, if i can just work out how to reinvent myself as a methane-making, oxygen-hating microbe there's fresh hope for me... Back to the lab to see what's on the slab.

This isn't such groundbreaking news, NASA have been aware of the existence of microbes on Mars since August 1996 when scientists publically announced that an ancient meteorite that had plunged to Earth from Mars and revealed signs of primitive life. Astronomer Donald Goldsmith published a book detailing microbe findings which were traced from the rock remnants.

Sure we're doing it now and here but we're still literally light years away.


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