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[rational]

This reads like it was written by a third grader. .

[Yargs]

Hello--PCWolrd copy editor here. I noticed a couple of grammatical problems with this piece when I read it a few minutes ago, and then I saw the unflattering comment from rational, so I decided to break our rule against copyediting blog posts, in order to clear up some of the problems I found.

The article still has youthful touches such as "skateboarding hipster microbes or bacteria," but it no longer says "So where's the life? Well that's a complicated answer" and "A purely physical process...are not that complex."

Thanks for reading.

[rational]

Yargs, on 13 April 2012 - 07:29 PM, said:

Hello--PCWolrd copy editor here. I noticed a couple of grammatical problems with this piece when I read it a few minutes ago, and then I saw the unflattering comment from rational, so I decided to break our rule against copyediting blog posts, in order to clear up some of the problems I found.

The article still has youthful touches such as "skateboarding hipster microbes or bacteria," but it no longer says "So where's the life? Well that's a complicated answer" and "A purely physical process...are not that complex."

Thanks for reading.

[mjd420nova]

Our definition of LIFE is pretty confined to what we understand of how LIFE exists on our own little world. Until we can actually get there, wherever that might be, it would take a very elaborate research setup to examine the elements present and that's not possible with the immense gravity well we live on.

[JTF243]

Yargs - you (or Jason) could have also left out the part at the end about his being "terrified" of life on Mars. We didn't need to told that and was not relevant to the story. More information about the "processes" the scientists examined and compared would have helpful and better suited to the article.

[xyberviri]

I think scientists should stop trying to prove if there "once was life on mars" and just go with something they can prove which is "Can mars currently support life and if so what terraforming is needed"