Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist is theorizing.
The Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life, so they didn't recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State University said.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch presented his theory in a paper delivered at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington.
The Viking experiments of the 1970s wouldn't have noticed hydrogen peroxide-based life and, in fact, would have killed it by drowning and overheating the microbes, said Schulze-Makuch.
My theory is that the Viking landers may found Hostess Twinkie based lifeforms but inadvertantly killed them beacuse they were not designed to recognize the gooey richness of sentient artificial vanilla flavoring inside nuclear winter proof fried batter.
NASA found life on Mars - And Killed it?
