We Are Not Alone!

UPDATE: ONE STEP CLOSER

Lander Finds Ice on Mars, Scientists Say

Discovery Is Key Clue In Determining Whether Planet Supported Life

Imagine if that is the headline in next week's NY Times.

Most likely you haven't heard, but a recent NASA landing on Mars is creating some more buzz in the scientific community.

Mars Lander Sitting Pretty and Ready to Dig

Phoenix Photographs Mars' Surface -- That's a Keeper

Stunning photos sent back from Mars show the Phoenix lander sitting pretty on the icy northern plain and the spacecraft with its solar arrays deployed. The spacecraft now morphs into a science lab, deploying all its instruments, including a camera and a mini backhoe. It will dig in the dirt at the landing site to find out whether the cold, forbidding surface of Mars could once have been warm enough for microbial life to exist on the planet.


Wow this is exciting, at least for me.

Do you realize the enormity of discovering life on another planet?
To quote a wikipedia article

Extraterrestrial life is life originating outside of the Earth. It is the subject of astrobiology, and its existence remains hypothetical. There is no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life that has been widely accepted by the scientific community.

Right now it's a myth, a dream a mere hypothesis, but if those things were to become reality and life was discovered on Mars imagine the next "space race" it would create and therefore create jobs, more freedoms, more squirrels. It would be the perfect catalyst to bring the nation and world together. Our day to day struggles would seem insignificant compared to what might exist.

To me this is the equivalent of proving with scientific evidence the existence of ghosts, angels or life after death. Now imagine what that would do to the world?