Martian microbes are exciting if you're a scientist needing that huge piece of the puzzle to work from/with, but even if there was some definitive kind of proof found, it would seem a little less than romantic "no shit" kind of news to sci-fi nerds and jaded science geeks. Until we can see a Mars spider or something I just can't get that excited. There is just no way that nowhere in our vast universe that there isn't some sort of life form above a bacteria/germ. I like to image that there is a colony of tiny ice people who live below the surface of Mars. They know about us, observe us and think we’re fucking insane uglier devolved versions of a monkey or gorilla. They’ve never made any attempt to make contact because we just get crazier and less predictable, intent on killing ourselves and our planet fairly quickly in terms of how long we've walked upright. That their evolution (selection) is different from ours, that they can’t fathom how we'd ever hurt, let alone kill one another because they can only reproduce once in a lifetime. They’re terrified of the giant robots that are sitting on the surfaced outer layer of their planet because they're susceptible to our germs, which killed much of their civilization looong ago when a frozen asteroid carrying earth germs crashed and decimated the heavily populated pod area once inhabiting a portion of the surface. They don't want us to know they're there, so they just sit, waiting to see if we’ll dig and eventually hit their huge underground colony of ant people. Whoa, I got lost in my tired thoughts there for a second.
If you wanted to give one example of a missing link, this would be a good one.
Mars & Saturn together again.
Floods in Iowa, dry as a desert in OK. Are we talking mandatory water rationing yet?
Worth a read: Ice Diary: Science in the fast changing Arctic
I'm not sure I want my toilet to know me this well.
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