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A chemical engineer's attempts to avoid the issues
E.P. Grondine — (archived)

You're avoiding Barry's point, which is that the Pathfinder data has pretty much shown that there is no oxidizing environment on Mars - thus the LR data remains unexplained. I don't know if he's correct or not, and like the majority of the taxpayers, I really don't care... excpet for the money wasted on this exercise

As for the late Fred Hoyle, since you mistate his hypothesis so completely, there seems ot be little point in going on...but

First, the mass of a comet provides some protection against radiation. Second, we know that long chain hydorcarbons form in comets, the question is how long are they? Is he correct? Again, I don't know, and like the majority of the taxpayers, I don't care....

Mark, there is nothing wrong with being a chemical engineer, and I am pretty sure most of the nuclear physicists who I have associted with over the years would tell you the same thing. there is also nothing wrong with being a journalist, or a historian for that matter.

But those skills do not justify your trying to play exo-biologist for anyone.

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