[vladimir998]

I know the news would make a huge deal about it. It just wouldn’t actually EFFECT anything practicle of every day use on THIS PLANET for the foreseeable future. Sorry, I grew up in the age of science fiction turned to fact. The discivery of life on another planet wouldn’t impress me much because I’ve been told for my entire life that ot would happen eventually.

I would be much more impressed by a cure for the common cold (or cancer) or the Democratic Party becoming Pro-Life or producing a balanced federal budget - but let’s not stray from science fiction into pure fantasy.

[dragnet2]

lol...

[dragnet2]

I know the news would make a huge deal about it. It just wouldn’t actually EFFECT anything practicle of every day use on THIS PLANET for the foreseeable future.

It would be the biggest news in human/earth history and would change our research, studies, religion, exploration, they way we view the universe, you name it.

But feel free to continue thinking life found outside earth is no big deal.

Wow....

[Windflier]

Bah - humbug! You sound like a future Grumpy Old Man.

[KarlInOhio]

The biggest impact would be to see if extraterrestrial life is based on the same DNA we have including the guanine-cytosine and adenine-thymine base pairs. If it is the same, then both might come from the same source (Earth, Mars, somewhere else or equipment contamination). On the other hand, if some DNA alternative is found on Mars that will be a huge advance in biology.