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Martian Colony
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The following picture represents a "Colony of Martians" that I removed from the Frass Meteorite. This colony is representative of colonies that I have found in almost every crack and cranny of the rock. Even when I took a core sample and removed material from the very most interior, these creatures were there. They live without light or water.

Look on the left side of the "rock" in the above photograph and then at the density of the fibers in the right side of the picture. Since there is evidence that Mars hasn't had much water for a while, I decided to add some water to the "rock" above.

The rock melted!

The picture below was taken recently and represents the "growth" that has occurred in the last two years. Also note that the "rock" melted into what looks like silicon glue. It has been stuck to the petri disk every since the day I put four drops of water on it.

When I first placed the water on this colony, I carefully examined the ring of material you see attached to the petri. There were none of the little "glassies" on it at that time. Now the entire surface shows indications that the glassies are growing and doing OK here on planet Earth.

This last picture was taken January 5th, 1999.  If you look carefully at the "lines"that go across the clear bottom part, you can see that these things have grown since the picture above, which was taken a number of months ago.  I don't have enough petri dishes and so I have had to store other particles in the same dish and now they have stuck to the glassies, because they are "sticky " little creatures. 

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