NASA confirms water on Mars and other intriguing cases

NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples. "We have water," said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. "We've seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted."

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_08_195_Phoenix_water.html

This supports theories like Panspermia. This is why Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick came up with the theory of directed panspermia. He said that there wasn't enough time for life to form on earth so it must have come from elswhere in space and Frick was an agnostic leaning towards atheism. This is just what the evidence showed him and it's starting to bear itself out.

You have red rain. This could be extra-terrestrial microbes that landed on earth just as we did billions of years ago. What makes this finding most important is the biological cell like nature of these red particles. Under optical microscope they appear like biological cells and the Transmission Electron Microscopy further shows a clear cell structure. Their organic nature is indicated by the major presence of carbon and oxygen. But despite these biological indications the cells do not show the presence of DNA. The genetic molecule DNA is present in all living organisms found on Earth. So the absence of DNA argues against the biological nature of these red rain cells. The red cells found in the red rain in Kerala, India are now considered as a possible case of extraterrestrial life form. These cells can undergo rapid replication even at an extreme high temperature of 300 deg C. They can also be cultured in diverse unconventional chemical substrates. The molecular composition of these cells is yet to be identified. This paper reports the unusual autofluorescence characteristic of the cultured red rain cells. A spectrofluorimetric study has been performed to investigate this, which shows a systematic shift of the fluorescence emission peak wavelength as the excitation wavelength is increased. Conventional biomolecules are not known to have this property. Details of this investigation and the results are discussed.
http://education.vsnl.com/godfrey/

Dr. Godfrey Louis had a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal, Astrophysics and Space Science. Also, some scientist believe that Venus may have had oceans of water and microbes may be living in the acidic clouds. The acidic clouds of Venus could in fact be hiding life. Unlikely as it sounds, the presence of microbes could neatly explain several mysterious observations of the planet's atmosphere. Even more mysterious is the presence of carbonyl sulphide. This gas is so difficult to produce inorganically that it is sometimes considered an unambiguous indicator of biological activity. "There may be non-biological ways to produce the hydrogen sulphide or carbonyl sulphide that we do not know about, but both reactions need catalysts to proceed efficiently," says Schulze-Makuch. "On Earth, the most efficient catalysts are microbes." He thinks that bugs living in the Venusian clouds could be combining sulphur dioxide with carbon monoxide and possibly hydrogen to produce either hydrogen sulphide or carbonyl sulphide in a metabolism similar to that of some early Earth bugs. He suggests the bugs could be using ultraviolet light from the Sun as an energy source.
http://space.newscientist.com/channel/space-tech/astrobiology/dn2843

Now NASA confirms that there's water on Mars.

The next thing they will say, is that it's a high probability that intelligent life evolved elswhere since the condition for life are easily met outside of earth.

Translation: This will be like saying extra-terrestrial life exists in scientific terms. The U.F.O.'s would not have to travel light years to get here if they evolved in our own back yard.