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Acidic stream in Dungy Head, Lulworth Cove, on the Eastern end of St Oswald's Bay, UK. Credit: Imperial College London

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By studying streams on the UK coast, experts have calculated how much organic matter we might find on Mars, and where to look.

Dorset is home to highly acidic sulphur streams that host bacteria that thrive in extreme conditions. One such environment, in St Oswald’s Bay, mimics the conditions on Mars billions of years ago.

Now, scientists from Imperial College London have found ancient traces of fatty acids - key building blocks of biological cells – in Dorset’s acidic streams.

Because the environment is so similar to that of Mars during its middle-ages, the findings hint that life might once have existed on the Red Planet. ...

• Scientific Reports 8:7586 (15 May 2018) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25752-7

http://college.interlochen.org/person/dr-sabrina-feldman wrote:
<<Dr. Sabrina Feldman is manager of the Planetary Science Instrument Development Office at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. She is also a Shakespearean scholar, and author of the books The Apocryphal Shakespeare and The Shakespearean Glass Slipper.>>

[Dr. Feldman believes that the Shakespeare canon was written by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536 – April 19, 1608).]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorboduc_(play) wrote:
<<The Tragedie of Gorboduc, also titled Ferrex and Porrex, is an English play from 1561. It was first performed at the Christmas celebration given by the Inner Temple in 1561, and performed before Queen Elizabeth I on 18 January 1561, by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple. The authors were Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536 – April 19, 1608) and Thomas Norton (1532 – March 10, 1584). Norton's Calvinism grew with years, and towards the end of his career he became a fanatic. Norton held several interrogation sessions in the Tower of London using torture instruments such as the rack. His punishment of the Catholics, as their official censor from 1581 onwards, led to his being nicknamed "Rackmaster-General" and "Rackmaster Norton.">>