{"id":4807,"date":"2013-08-30T12:03:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T19:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2013-09-01T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T19:03:25","slug":"were-all-martians-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/30\/were-all-martians-now\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re All Martians Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1134431\/life-on-earth-started-on-mars-say-scientists\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Sky News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Life On Earth Started On Mars, Say Scientists<\/h1>\n<p><em>There is growing evidence we are really Martians and that &#8220;life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock&#8221;.<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NASA's Curiosity rover celebrates one year on Mars\" src=\"http:\/\/media.skynews.com\/media\/images\/generated\/2013\/8\/5\/251766\/default\/v3\/pia17083-1-522x293.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Images from NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover on Mars<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Life on Earth may have started millions of miles away on Mars, according to scientists.<\/p>\n<p>An element believed to be crucial to the origin of life would only have been available on the surface of the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>These &#8220;seeds&#8221; of life probably arrived on Earth in meteorites blasted off Mars by impacts or volcanic eruptions, Geochemist Professor Steven Benner claims.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Benner, from The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology in the US, said: &#8220;The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Martians; that life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1134431\/life-on-earth-started-on-mars-say-scientists\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Sky News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Sky News Life On Earth Started On Mars, Say Scientists There is growing evidence we are really Martians and that &#8220;life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock&#8221;. Images from NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover on Mars Life on Earth may have started millions of miles away on Mars, according to scientists. An [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","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=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}