nasa to announce significant find on

NASA to announce "significant find on Mars"

Ooh, this is exciting - although normally when NASA says this, it

turns out to be only moderately exciting. This is apparently the end

of the Global Surveyor Mission though, so there might be some kind of

grand finale.

The mission has brought us some amazing images of Mars, and opened up

many intriguing questions about the Martian environment. Anomalists

have combed over images looking for anything that might be artificial

artefacts, or signs of life, but nothing is conclusive. The anomalists

have managed to highlight some very unusual images though.

Sadly, I doubt that a significant find will mean life. It will just

mean interesting information about geology and weather systems. They

would surely use a greater superlative than significant to describe

life. It's still NASA's policy, I believe, to keep quiet about any

sign of other life in the universe - for fear of causing widespread

panic and chaos on Earth.

There is, however, the Disclosure Project, where hundreds of military

and government figures have come forward to testify their experience

with UFOs, ETs etc.

Regardless of whether we find life or not, the prospect of exploring

our plantetary neighbours is very exciting. NASA is hoping to have a

permanent lunar base from 2020. It's another leap towards the space

age future that we all dreamed about as children. From the Moon, it

will be much easier to launch missions beyond the Earth's orbit - the

biggest impediment to space travel is the Earth's grativational pull,

which makes it very difficult and energy intensive to get out of the

atmosphere. Once you're out of the Earth's atmosphere, you're half way

to anywhere.

It would put us within reach of Mars, or within reach of exploring

asteroids - which could be particularly vital in helping us work out

how to prevent an inevitable meteor collision with Earth.