We have eliminated all life on Mars

This should make us all proud. Seems that besides killing insurgents in foregin countries, previously we were busy killing all life forms in Mars, accidentally of course.

Back in the 70's we send the first mission to Mars to seek new forms of life and check out the planet for perhaps a better place to live. Today, 30 years later, we come to find the results of this mission as NASA is coming clean in regards to its Viking mission.

An article on seattlepi.com explains, "When the Viking 1 and 2 Mars Landers dropped onto the Martian surface in 1976 to look for signs of living creatures, the scientific consensus was that they had failed to find any".

But Schulze-Makuch and his German colleague, Joop Houtkooper of Justus Liebig University, argue that the failure could have been more about how the scientific community defined life at that time. Back then, the WSU researcher noted, the definition assumed that any form of life would be based on water.

Water, thus a resource required by life on Earth, turns out to be the killer of microorganisms on Mars.

The bottom line is that although hard to believe, we cannot and probably will not ever see a time when we abandoned our planet for another, not on our lifetimes anyways. We were designed to inhabit this land and resources on this planet are designed to substained us. Other planets were designed with other goals in mind and life forms adapted as such. Godspeed to all of us!