For those of you who are new to the MartianChronicle, here is a little overview of what's going on. We are currently waiting for a report to be released by Dr. Alan Treiman on the Frass Meteorite. It is hoped that this report will be released some time this month and that the report will indicate that the Frass Meteorite needs further study.

At that time, I want to form a non-profit foundation that will be responsible for coordinating the study of the Frass Meteorite. Maybe it should be called The NASA Foundation, or maybe Foundation and Empire. J In addition to coordinating the study of the Frass Meteorite, I would like for this foundation to be responsible for accumulating, storing, organizing, and disseminating all scientific models and knowledge. This database will include all currently proposed scientific models, as well as the supporting evidence, arguments for and against, and a complete database of individual persuasions. This information will be available through the Internet to all the people of the world and I will do my best to make sure that it always remains free to all. Every person will be allowed to come to the knowledge base and learn anything they want and then give their opinions as to what they think is true or right. Thus, anyone that can get to an Internet terminal, would be able to learn any scientific information that they wanted, at any time, and to any level of depth.

Since the Frass Meteorite represents the first known transport of life between planets, I would hope that it would come to represent a belief in miracles by all of mankind. The human species has made a long and painful trip to become aware. In some ways, the arrival of the Frass Meteorite represents the final chapter as man comes to full awareness of the infinite cosmos in which he lives. This rock is has much symbolism associated with it and could be called a Cosmic Egg or Martian Spaceship. But whatever the name, this is a very exciting rock and it will tell us much about our place in the cosmos.

Once scientists begin studying the Frass Meteorite, this MartianChronicle page will be devoted to the day to day discoveries that come from the Frass Meteorite. As an example, on the first day that we break the rock apart, I would like to have the session live on the MartianChronicle, so that all people can partake of the exact moment of discovery. Judging from the amount of debris that has fallen from the few vesicles I have broken open, there should be many amazing discoveries that come as we open up this rock, and eventually look into the contents of every single vesicle. I want to provide a three dimensional view of the rock, that allows the users to be able to "cruise" around and through the rock, via their computer screens. I hope that this kind of "entertainment" and "education" will excite the population of our planet and encourage us to make the effort to get to Mars and discover all that it can teach us about how planets die. Maybe we can keep our planet alive a little longer, if we know more details of how other planets have met their destiny.

So we are still in the "waiting" phase and maybe soon, the world will start to get the results, as we study the life that evolved on Mars. It has been a long struggle to get to this point, and I can only hope that soon the world will know that the Frass Meteorite has given us good reason to believe that life still exists on Mars.

Your friend,

micromike