Times Online - Science Central - WBLG: Is there a Life On Mars Conspiracy?

Michael Brooks, consultant for New Scientist and the author of 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense, sends us a new perspective on the riddle of the empty planet next door

Some pesky scientists have just pointed out an appalling design error in NASA’s latest attempts to find life on Mars. This is beginning to look like a conspiracy. Does someone not want us to find life on Mars?

The best argument for why no one has even found carbon brought in on asteroids and comets is that chemicals called perchlorates, also thought to be in the Martian soil, have destroyed it all. When perchlorates get hot, they burn up carbon-based molecules. That’s why NASA uses them in rocket fuel. The problem is, as NASA's Douglas Ming (the Merciless) has pointed out in a recent paper, the experiments to search for carbon involve heating soil samples to a few hundred degrees and sniffing the vapours. If the soil contains carbon molecules and perchlorates, the carbon molecules will simply burn up. No wonder they couldn’t find any.

Is our a universe just a quantum hallucination?

Physics of the "multiverse" and multiple universes suggests life is most likely to be created as hallucinating disembodied brains that pop up as a quantum fluctuation from the vacuum and float through space imagining the universe, with the thoughts and memories of a human, rather than as "normal" biologically evolved humans.

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Strange & Unsolved Mysteries from America's history

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The Moon might be a space station after all

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Google Mars updated! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait blogs about Google Mars, just in time for your next vacation.

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Ancient Camels Butchered in Colorado, Stone Tools Show?

Humans may have hunted down Ice Age camels 13,000 years ago on what are now the streets of Boulder, Colorado, a new analysis of ancient tools suggests. Blood residue on stone blades found recently in a Boulder resident's backyard could be the first evidence that the implements were used to butcher horses and American camels.

The Mayan Calendar Portal

Slickly produced website purporting to explain the Mayan Calendar, and, most significantly, it's supposed end on December 21, 2012.

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2012 Group

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The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

There is a great deal of archeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us. Consider these astonishing finds.

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NIBIRU - Latest with 5 planets Visible

Supposedly leaked by someone working on the Scott - Amundsen South Pole Telescope (SPT). This video shows 5 visible planets! All credit should go to the original Poster who took the risk ... if its original that is!PDF file giving historic and present day proof of something that will come to visit us soon:http://rapidshare.com/files/1499...

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NIBIRU Exists! Best Proof Ever

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Summary of Secret Teachings

A summary of the techniques for attracting money, health, and good relationships from The Secret.




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4,300-Year-Old Pyramid Discovered in Egypt

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a pyramid buried in the desert and thought to belong to the mother of a pharaoh who ruled more than 4,000 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Tuesday.

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