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The John Batchelor Show

#MARS: Sample return mission paused. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

This is CBS, I am the world. I'm John Bachelor. Mars.

0:10.0

Mars sample return. A series of headlines from NASA announcement.

0:14.7

NASA Mars sample, which could contain evidence of life,

0:17.8

will not return to Earth as initially planned live science.

0:21.9

NASA is asking for help to return samples that could uncover life

0:25.0

on Mars flying. Or NASA samples could prove life on Mars but we can't afford to

0:31.2

bring them home. That's the London Telegraph.

0:34.0

I go now to my favorite headline writer.

0:36.4

This is Bob Zimmerman.

0:37.8

He keeps the website behind the black.

0:39.9

Our sample return is a very complicated long-winded story.

0:44.5

And I recall it last when someone mentioned that we can't afford it.

0:49.2

Bob, a very good evening to you.

0:51.0

Can they afford it now?

0:52.2

Good evening, John. evening to you can they afford it now good evening good evening John no this is this

0:56.8

is garbage stuff going on here at NASA and it's really garbage reported everything

1:01.2

will headline you listed from the other new sources made a big deal

1:04.6

about discovering life on Mars and that's garbage. Perseverance on Mars they say

1:11.8

its primary mission is discover life on Mars. They say its primary mission is discover life on Mars, but that's always been

1:15.8

a lie. It's there to do geology. The odds of its finding any life evidence of life on Mars is tiny infinitesimal so it would be nice if

1:27.4

they found it and they're looking for it always but that's not its prime mission

1:31.4

prime mission is to learn the geology of Mars,

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