Its a neat trick to send a robot to Mars to investigate the possibility of life, but scientists have long known that you can detect life by its, er-r-r, emissions.

ALIEN microbes living just below the Martian soil are responsible for a haze of methane around the Red Planet, Nasa scientists believe.

The gas, belched in vast quantities in our world by cows, was detected by orbiting spacecraft and from Earth using giant telescopes.

Nasa are today expected to confirm its presence during a briefing at their Washington HQ.

Don't blame the cows--blame the microbes in their stomachs.

Now if we can just find a few of these little critters and recover them for analysis...

Yet another failed approach to fighting the 'Aids Virus' prompts me to record my view that the HIV/AIDS model is probably wrong. The chance of HIV being the cause, repeat 'cause', of AIDS (if AIDS even exists as a disease) is about the same as the chance that manmade carbon emissions cause Global Warming (if Global Warming even exists). It's possible, but the argumentation is weak.

Immune deficiency is not a disease, it's a propensity to disease, and is predominantly caused by lifestyle choices of the rich and lousy nutrition, hygiene and water of the poor. The greatest cause of 'AIDS' is fraudulent statistics prompted by good motives and bad motives. Iatrogenic, drug induced immune deficiency seems rife among rich and poor. Re-thinking Aids is one hub for scientific arguments against the social construct of HIV/AIDS or, for a polemic, read Paglia. The vocabulary and coercive techniques of the AGW and AIDS liberal-industrial complex are remarkably similar. Would that there were a pill against them!

How about a pix. A strange green comet streaks by next Monday night, going backwards through the solar system.

There are certain phrases that once heard compel one to commit them to memory. One such is "the transformation of 2 stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from a cube":

Looks a lot like the planet animations for the original Star Trek series...