Returning to camp, we passed a troupe of aging naked hippies loitering in a makeshift jacuzzi, diverted from the hot creek. Right, that's becoming more apparent. Absolutely, unless we find the DNA makeup to totally different. But we just completed some tests on a satellite that was in space for ten years. Also, we've concluded that a rock cast from Mars could maintain room temperature.
Bacteria can be dormant for thousands of years.
At the barbecue, I asked the weather man what we thought of the movie, 'Contact. He said it is an accurate description of the scientific community. The passion, the politics, the fights for grant money. The weather man is a meteorologist. He predicts weather on Mars.