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Conan to Land on Mars

By tone | Published: July 15, 2009

Conan will be part of the first earthling crew to land on Mars this October. Conan the Bacterium a microbe and his trusty co-pilots thale cress and brewer’s yeast were chosen to land on Mars. Is that not what killed the Martians in H.G. Wells classic War of the Worlds. That is poetic justice sending [...]

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