h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Is there life on Mars? - A966486
Author: digitol_dezire - U217180

Is there or has there ever been life on Mars?

"To Patrick Moore and David Bowie
And all the other stars
There's evidence here to show ye
That there is life on Mars"

That's from 'Mars Bars' by the Undertones... probably not of too much serious help, but there you go.

thanx

I think a more important question to be asked... is there life on Blair? For many years scientists have believed that there was no life on Blair and all his primary function were carried out by one A.Campbell and one P.Mandelson. In recent months however, evidence has been found of this so-called "Tone" planet thinking for itself, even disagreeing with it's former masters...
On a more serious note, there was a time in the 1980's when Nasa seriously believed that tiny organisms existed on Mars. I don't know why, but that theory was dismissed after a few years.
Nice article
Oberon2001

Getting back to the topic...

This is an interesting and well written article on a interesting subject, and then points I've got to make are of a minor nature, merely intended to make it fit the house style that edited guide entries have not at all a critism of your writing style. So please do make the changes, and I'm sure this will head towards the edited guide..

There's no need to link to "home" as there's already a link to your personal space in the entry data box...


Technically when the entry is picked an copy of it will be made and the copy will be edited, if this entry is picked the sub editor will remove the picture from the copy. You can leave it in the orinigal if you want - it's up to you..


The HR tags aren't part of the house style..


On a very minor stylistic point, I think the "correct" way would be to use for the "case for" and "case against" headers, and Subheaders for the ones below that...

to be so picky

Oooh and you can find the guidelines here - A266131 and here - A264520

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

(, had to follow up Number Six there with the original "Life on Mars" song by David Bowie. )

Excellent and well researched entry there. However, I'd like to make my stylistic opinion known.

You make the same links to A330823 and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2354533.stm many times in the entry. There's seriously no need to link more than once to each.

For external links (ie. not DNA ones) it's a good idea to add the TITLE= attribute to the tag. This specifies the title of the page you're linking to in the right column of the entry (if the page has the same name as the text of the link, then this isn't necessary).

There's a stray space in "potato-shaped rock known as ALH84001 , has been".

tags don't need enclosing in (it just makes lots of extra spaces that aren't necessary). Also an entire list should be surrounded by as some browsers will complain otherwise. Your second list with inside the looks very odd indeed. Just lose all the tags here - is sufficient.

The subheader tag is not , and doesn't need because it's bold automatically.

Typo "furthur" should read "further".

I agree with all Z says too.

As I said before, thorough and well researched. Well done.

~

THanx guys Soz me taken a while to implement your ideas and suggestions; I've been on holiday I am listening though and I really appreciate your input, THANKYOU

Can I draw your attention to this

http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/M/mars/life_t.html

and then to this

F48874?thread=250800

I'm going to have to yikes this one too digitol_dezire for the same reason I yikesed A973974, unless you can prove to us that you are the rightful owner of copyright for this work, and/or that you have permission to reproduce it here.

And should we also be moving to move this thread out of PR and back to the entry?

Shall we wait for the Italics to get back on Monday? I think we should at least allow the author the dignity of either having the entry reinstated, or removing the content as was done with the other entry