[meteorite-list] Mars Meteorite Similar to Bacteria-Etched Earth Rocks

From: MexicoDoug_at_aol.com <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Mar 25 23:55:36 2006
Message-ID: <237.9260370.315589f6_at_aol.com>

Martin Fisk wrote:

<< "There are two possible explanations," he added. "One is that there is
 an abiotic way to create those tunnels in rock on Earth, and we just
 haven't found it yet. The second possibility is that the tunnels on
 Martian rocks are indeed biological in nature, but the conditions are
 such on Mars that the DNA was not preserved." >>

There most likely are plenty more than two possible explanations...
*A third hypothesis might be that there is an abiotic way to create those
tunnels on Mars to look for.
*A fourth is that hypothetical life on Mars has or had a non-DNA "biology".
*A fifth, that the hypothetical organisms migrated and devoured the reputed
Nakhla dog in a instantaneous feeding frenzy creating another mystery.
*A sixth is that the meteoroid picked up their rock eating "bacteria" in
space after collision with a hypothetical earth meteoroid containing a then
famished colony of rock-eating bacteria from earth, but the Martian rocks were
poisonous and killed the bacteria after a few generations, though not before the
last surviving bacterium necro-cannibalized all the old DNA in a last survival
effort...

Saludos, Doug
Received on Fri 24 Mar 2006 12:44:22 PM PST