News conference in Paris re: Euro Space Program findings - canceled.

[donhakman]

The scientist responsible for building the spectrograph for the Euro Mars satellite and made several announcments of detecting ammonia, methane and formaldehyde (all metabolic indicators) is also unavailable for any explaination for the cancelation. Some may assume that if he can not be found regarding the the most important announcement of his career, that he may be missing. There was one astronomer associated with the European Space Program who came forward to say we whould all disregard the work and claims of the Italien scientist who supposedly found ammonia on Mars.

http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=749&category=Science

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perhaps he choked on a pretzel.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Here's the Globe and Mail story she quotes

which is, of course, Canadian, not British (as if they don't have enough trouble getting mistaken for Americans).

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040719.wstrauss0720/BNStory/Front/

they referred me to Mr. Formisano abstract at the now almost infamous conference where he was indeed scheduled to speak.

The abstract has a sentence in it that states ”the high spectral resolution allows us to identify a number of small signatures which possibly will bring us to the identification of minor compounds .”
...
Well, on Monday ESA backed up from its hoax remarks. Mr. De Marchi says he wasn't aware of the abstract when he talked to me originally, but that doesn't make any difference.

Professor Formisano had written a précis of the talk months before when he thought he might look for ammonia. But since then his research has changed, and he hasn't and likely won't look for the gas.

I see Ms. Howe is very interested in crop circles ans space aliens. Do you think a European scientist might have found that out, and decided not to talk to her?

[aquart]

2. Well, drat.

[Occulus]

3. Think about the ramifications

to religions if life were found elsewhere.

Now consider who runs the show here and now.