[editor-surveyor]

"This is beginning to look like a conspiracy. Does someone not want us to find life on Mars?"

No, quite to the contrary; NASA has a vested interest in faking life on Mars to keep the sham rolling, and their over-generous salaries flowing.

[Cincinatus]

They don’t need to fake the discovery of life — they’ve been quite successful in establishing an entitlement for Mars exploration based merely on the promise to look for it.