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Don — (archived)

In that CNN article, Nick says this: "I don't personally believe that (finding life) is a credible possibility, but nonetheless, if you are going to find life on Mars, this is probably the place it will be."

That doesn't sound too terribly inconsistent with: "The consequences of this for life on Mars are shattering. If similar mechanisms are responsible for all the recent gullies on Mars then the near surface life NASA is so desperately searching for may not exist."

I think its pretty clear that Dr. Hoffman does not expect that we will find microbial life at the surface of Mars. But it sounds like he's willing to entertain the prospect that there may very well be rare micro-environments on Mars that may be hospitable for such life. Sounds like a man with an open mind.

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