NASA - Life on Mars could be found within two years but world is ‘not prepared’

a reply to: Blue Shift
Well sounds like they like things exactly like it is.

So I guess you all can expect more none disclosures that they may have found a flagellum on mars, maybe and even a whole amoeba, but not really, because you have to tune in next year for the big announcement.

Either way, does not look like anybody's going anywhere.

a reply to: LookingAtMars

Honestly discovering life on Mars will be anticlimactic. On one hand you’d think, wow if we find life on the planet next door then it must be in every star system practically, and very common.

I guarantee they would shoot it down though and just say Mars was contaminated with Earth life from splash damage reaching the red planet. Nothing to see here, move on.

a reply to: LookingAtMars

could ! = will
Astronomical difference.
These horribly worded headlines are what #ty tabloid news outlets love. They love them because It leads readers right down the #ter

We may be closing in on the discovery of alien life. Are we prepared?

But what if we find extant life on Mars — for example, a layer of bustling bacteria lying several meters below Mars’ sterile surface? What would we do? Would someone tell Elon Musk to put his planned excursions to Mars on hold because the planet has an indigenous population?

Clearly, this is a scenario for which we’re unprepared. Even if the new Mars robotic explorers only find evidence for a biota that went extinct billions of years ago, it’s not clear we have a battle plan for the science we’d want to do next. Green’s admonition applies: Unlike the Boy Scouts, we’re not quite prepared.

So what Dr. Green was really saying is NASA isn't prepared to find life on Mars?

We need that planet. They won't protect it from us, for microorganisms.

Sorry PETA. Mars slime will die, for human expansion.