Every time NASA’s rover on Mars scratches the surface, it seems that some large portion of humanity veritably holds its breath in anticipation of the space agency finally declaring it has found signs of life – dead or alive.
In November when a NASA scientist said they would have a report that was “one for the history books,” the Internet exploded with anticipation and speculation. But then NASA officials jumped in and calmed everyone down. Turns out they found some stuff, but not direct signs of life.
But, it feels inevitable we’ll find it, doesn’t it?
Also, it doesn’t seem to matter if we find past signs of life or even remnants of life, “life” itself or just strangely organized stuff that acts like “life.” It’s just a matter of degrees of excitement – if we find direct signs of life then it stands to reason finding something alive would be soon in coming.
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