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This brief entry could perhaps be alternately entitled, “How did we manage to foul (or your choice of expletives) up so badly?”
Posts Tagged ‘Arsenic’
NASA Foul Up
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, December 31, 2010
Posted in - Did they REALLY say that?, - Lost In Space: TOTALLY Discombobulated | Tagged: alien, Arizona State University, Arsenic, Astrobiology, California, Cardiff University, Carl Zimmer, DNA, Fail, FailBlog, failure, Harry Collins, health, Journals, life, medicine, microbe, Mono Lake, NASA, Peer review, U.S. Geological Survey, United States Geological Survey, USGS | Leave a Comment »
Arsenic Eating Microbe Found at Mono Lake, California… NOT!!
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, December 10, 2010
It would seem that the “good ol’ boys (and girls)” at NASA got it wrong. You’d think that’d be a source of embarrassment for them. Apparently not.
Earlier, the MSM (Main Stream Media) trumpeted the news that… well, you read the headlines, and this entry’s headline too. You’d think they’d report that error. Apparently not. And, you’d think that’d be a source of embarrassment for them. Apparently not.
Read more about their mistakes here:
NASA’s Mono Lake Arsenic Microbes Not Quite As Advertized
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Posted in - Did they REALLY say that?, - Even MORE Uncategorized! | Tagged: Arsenic, California, claim, county, Earth, error, Extraterrestrial life, faux pas, Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics, Inyo, Lake, Life on Earth (TV series), microbe, Microorganism, mistake, Mono, Mono Lake, NASA, National Forest, Organism, recreation, Sierras, Space, wilderness | 1 Comment »
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