Mars is best shot in this lifetime

Mars is the floodgate. When we verify biological life on Mars, the Earth will never be the same. Well, that is for the humans, ... Who else cares right? Think of the moment. The moment we officially recognize another extraterrestrial species. Boy, won't the UFO guys be let down. Then again, maybe not.

The transformation that this discovery has the potential for is profound. I think it might be one of the single most important discoveries of our time, that is of human time. We have been astonished with the masterminds of physics for decades and centuries, but we haven't seen the likes of something like this. Imagine knowing for the first time that there was actually life found outside our planet. You may have had a feeling for the possibility of it, but perhaps we wouldn't be prepared for the actual delivery of such news.

Just the discovery of one biological cell or remnants of such would set the world on fire. How would religion deal with it? How would then society deal with it? When would we see the real shift in consciousness?? How would our daily life change in the short term??"The End is coming" Fire in the streets. Rage. Confusion. Despair. Excitement. Sublime wholeness. This will affect every conscious person on our planet in very different ways.

Of all the ways of discovering life on other planets, I think venturing to Mars and perhaps other places among our solar system have the highest probability of finding it. It is difficult to verify, and impossible to do so currently, life on other planets with imaging and spectroscopy. I don't expect SETI to come running in with a verifiable signal, although that would be pretty cool. Of all the bad things we hear about SETI at least someone is listening. Sure it is radio waves. Sure there are a lot of "what abouts?" against SETI. But there is the potential for the signal. Is it possible, yes. Likely, not. But so is the lottery.

We may also discover ET if he comes here. UFO's. ET getting in a craft and travelling vast distances to get here. It may seem unlikely, and perhaps it is, but it is a possibility. In fact maybe it is a realistic possibility. We are going in that direction as our technology and knowledge advance. Our future is in the stars and why wouldn't ET's be also? It certainly seems something that intelligent life might do. How they get over those distances is the subject for many more posts.

And that leaves us with one more option. We need to leave our planet and travel to other nearby planets or moons and fish around. Like Mars for starters. We need to hurtle a piece of metal towards Mars with people in it, get out, and start investigating. In a sense robots can do this, but I really thing at this point, maybe we need a human to be there to react critically and really get the most out of some type of mission. And what a mission it would be.

This is it. This is how we find and prove the existance of ET. It won't be UFO's on the lawn. It won't be Seths Big Day. It won't be a picture or image. It will be us going out and finding it. Why? Because it is there to be found. And the truth can be learned before the modern generation passes away. I think we will learn this within the next 30 years.

So Mars will ruin the UFOlogists day, at least for the moment. ET won't be proven by UFO people, but it might just transform this field as it will transform the worlds paradigm. This discovery could strengthen the serious study of UFO's if we discover life somewhere else, however small and rudimentary it might be. At least at that point we know life exists elsewhere. And where there are little kids, there are big brothers.