[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.

[dragnet2]

Screw all that science and exploration...It would be a lot easier to lay on the sand, eat coconuts, carve tiki’s, and watch the palms sway in the breeze. All hail the Lizard God.

[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.

Here is a result of some of that wasted money you referred to. Pretty cheesy huh?

Clouds above the rim of "Endurance Crater" in this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. These clouds occur in a region of strong vertical shear. The cloud particles (ice in this martian case) fall out, and get dragged along away from the location where they originally condensed, forming characteristic streamers. Opportunity took this picture with its navigation camera during the rover's 269th martian day (Oct. 26, 2004). (NASA/JPL)

[aimhigh]

it would supposedly prove life can arise if the chemistry is just right

Or it would prove God made the universe with life everywhere.