X-Google-Thread: f996b,31df8b7eaffbfb99 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.14.113.41!news.alt.net From: Default User Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ASCII Art Fart for Tue, 2007 Jan 9: #2756 VIKING Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:14:28 -0500 Organization: Default Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 Xref: g2news2.google.com alt.ascii-art:2854 On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:31:28 GMT, Faux_Pseudo wrote: >I couldn't >bring myself to hear even one more time about how the guy who >developed the life tests for the Viking craft was convinced that the >experiments came back with positive results but NASA was to >incompetent to see that I'm always amazed at so called "scientists" who continually discount the possibility of life existing in places that known life on Earth cannot, or life not being able to exist without this or that molecule or element (e.g. water or carbon.) There is no reason to believe that life on other planets (or our planet for that matter) HAS to be like life as we currently understand it.