"...if the Viking scientists had known these results thirty years ago, they would have interpreted Viking’s work differently [...] we can’t discount organic molecules in the soil, which probably
"Researchers now say that the landers’ experiments were not sensitive enough to find life and in any case may not have been able to spot the strange forms that Martian life might take."
The boys at Big Blue are hard at work trying to make even smaller and more efficient electronic circuits - by using single molecules as logic components.
Hydrogen peroxide, to be precise - and if that stuff is blowing around over there, the chances of finding life as we know it are significantly lowered...untill next month's academic paper on Mars, of