{"id":10239,"date":"2019-10-16T10:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T17:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10239"},"modified":"2019-11-06T10:41:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T17:41:50","slug":"duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/16\/duh\/","title":{"rendered":"Duh."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/15\/us\/nasa-life-on-mars-intl-hnk-scli\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from CNN (opens in a new tab)\">from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Former NASA scientist says they found life on Mars in the 1970s<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/profiles\/jessie-yeung\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Jessie Yeung<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Classic Sci Fi  The Day Mars Invaded Earth 1963 QT@3RIP\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s-zq2wDkwL4?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We may have already discovered the essence of life on Mars 40 years ago, according to a former NASA scientist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilbert V. Levin, who was principal investigator on a NASA experiment that sent Viking landers to Mars in 1976,<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/im-convinced-we-found-evidence-of-life-on-mars-in-the-1970s\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0published an article<\/a>\u00a0in the Scientific American journal last Thursday, arguing the experiment&#8217;s positive results were proof of life on the red planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experiment, called Labeled Release (LR), was designed to test Martian soil for organic matter. &#8220;It seemed we had answered that ultimate question,&#8221; Levin wrote in the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the experiment, the Viking probes placed nutrients in Mars soil samples &#8212; if life were present, it would consume the food and leave gaseous traces of its metabolism, which radioactive monitors would then detect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/10\/15\/us\/nasa-life-on-mars-intl-hnk-scli\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at CNN (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN Former NASA scientist says they found life on Mars in the 1970s By\u00a0Jessie Yeung We may have already discovered the essence of life on Mars 40 years ago, according to a former NASA scientist. Gilbert V. Levin, who was principal investigator on a NASA experiment that sent Viking landers to Mars in 1976,\u00a0published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}