reply to post by mongoking
The Sun is a tabloid and tends to over sensationalize every bit of news that they report, but we are not talking about another National Enquirer here
or even a Sunday Sport. I think that this is a real story even if the headline does seem to suggest that life is the only possible explanation, even
though farther down the page we can see that they haven't ruled out the possibility of some kind of geological reason.
The fact that NASA are even entertaining the possibility of life on Mars is a huge step forward. Even in the 90s when they announced the discovery of
microbial fossils in an ancient asteroid the implication were that there may have been microbial life in Mar's ancient past.
It is true that they have a safety line with this new announcement with the geological explanation, but for NASA to announce that present
extraterrestrial life is a likely explanation is huge.
I wonder whether we are seeing a sea change with the new administration, perhaps these are the first tentative steps toward full disclosure.
