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Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

Posts: 3,669

Re: S&V cover says "De la vie sur Mars!"

For people that can read French, the excellent monthly magazine "Science & Vie" has a quite nice cover, this januari.

Big picture of Mars in orbit, big, orange letters spelling "De la vie sur Mars!" (Life on Mars!)

page 48-64 talk about almost a billion of bacteria live on Mars, we sent them there, inadvertedly, as hitchikers on probes, Bacillu subtilis, B. megaterium... discussions about extremophiles, hibernating bacteria, 25 million old bacteria in hibernation etc etc, also interesting stuff about how to isolate samples from Mars on P-4 Earth labs...
The other articles are interesting too, one about undercooling people to 33°C during surgery, and some experiments on mortally wounded pigs, then suspending lifesigns through cooling it down to 10°C, being successfully revived...  The Pluto mission detailed, a 20 micrometer swimming bot, the ongoing mystery of the Olmeks(sp?) , the V-22 Osprey using phages in Georgia that work better than antibiotics (this is very interesting stuff, already 'old news' for me, but good to see they are still pursuing that kind of research) etc etc...

Worth to check it out!  (and no, I do not work for them, I'm Belgian, and Dutch-speaking, not French, but officially it's my second language (although my English is better, in real life ))

Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

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Re: S&V cover says "De la vie sur Mars!"

Sounds really neat, Rxke, got a link to it or a scan or something? I can't read French, but I'd enjoy the cover probably.

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Rxke

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2003-11-03

Posts: 3,669

Re: S&V cover says "De la vie sur Mars!"

To be completely honest... I'm too goddarned lazy to go hunting for cables for my scanner... (sad eh?)

The cover is just... Mars with garish orange lettering...

I think the title is a bit tongue in cheek, but I'm not sure, not too familiair w/ French humor, but I have the impression they're cheekily copying some gutter-press-big-headlines-magazine...