The 'Blueberry' Revolution!


Astrobiology in 2004, around the time the Mars rovers
stumbled into all those mysterious spheres and evidence
of water, looked like this conference below, a handful
of papers with an introduction asking....

"What the hell is astrobiology"?

NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2004
Abstracts
http://www.aics-research.com/lecture...004/index.html


To this incredibly competitive and robust field
chock full of world class research.....


NASA annual Astrobiology Conference 2012
Abstracts
http://abscicon2012.arc.nasa.gov/abstracts/


This kind of scientific explosion in a particular field
is exciting to say the least, more so considering
the dramatic topic....life elsewhere. But it also
indicates just how many credible people believe
Mars ....should have life.


The blueberries that launched a thousand papers~
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/a...0P2956M2M1.JPG



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