Life on Venus?

Could be, according to scientists

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_968412.html?menu=

Marcus

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Could be, according to scientists

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Marcus



or even on Earth
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=97513

Scientists Finding Strange Life Forms in Great Salt Lake
May. 31, 2004
Ed Yeates Reporting

A consortium of scientists, including a Utah biologist, say some weird
creatures found in the Great Salt Lake might help unravel some of the
mysteries on Mars.

Though the Great Salt Lake is a dead sea - drying up even more this year
from years of drought - it's far from dead. On the northern arm of the lake
microbiologists from Westminster College in Salt Lake have been taking
samples of water.
With levels now at a 30-year low, the salt in portions of the shrinking lake
has reached saturation levels ten times the salinity of seawater.
Westminster, the University of Maryland and George Mason University are not
only finding life where life shouldn't exist, but life, perhaps like nothing
of this earth.

Instead of the rods, spheres and spiral shapes microbiologists are familiar
with, they're seeing organisms shaped like pyramids, triangles, squares and
crescents.

Dr. Bonnie Baxter, Westminster College Microbiologist: "Completely novel
sequences that don't match up with anything in the databases. And one of our
genome guys who was taking a look at these said this looks like alien DNA.
It doesn't match anything we have on earth." ......

Humour of the streets
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