[dragnet2]

NASA has spent billions of dollars to find life on Mars and will continue to spend billions more.

Those before you could have built easy chairs, instead of ships that sailed the oceans to unseen, uncharted new worlds.

This is little more than hope and hype, maybe and might be.

This comment, coming from a being that lives on one of trillions of planets, a planet so tiny and insignificant, it' not even visible from it's closest star.

[count-your-change]

But if life could be found on Mars, (it seems to be the candidate of choice right now) it would supposedly prove life can arise if the chemistry is just right. That's the hope part.

“New evidence has made it more likely that remnants of Martian microbes were transported to Earth in a meteorite, it was revealed today.

A study by scientists from the American space agency Nasa has found chemical signatures in the rock strongly associated with life.

The discovery strengthens the case for believing that worm-like structures in the meteorite are ‘microfossils’ of ancient Martian bugs.”

That's the hype part along with the maybes and might be’s.

But who knows, another hundred billion or hundred trillion or gagzillion of dollars might do the trick.