We are not alone?

First David Bowie and now NASA?

Space.com reports that two renegade devil-may-care astrophysicists (ok, the adjectives are mine) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a group of peers this weekend that biological life may exist on Mars, specifically in small subterranean pockets fed by underground water supplies and accessable only by heavy drilling.

Though the NASA website has yet to validate the findings of the scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and the report will not be publicized officially until May of this year, yours truly welcomes this opportunity to ponder our humble place in the cosmos.

It is incredibly presumptuous (and downright foolhardy), in my opinion, to think that of the hundreds of millions of miles of space that the speck of dirt that we call home is the only terrestrial body sustaining life. The odds of chaos in nature simply don’t allow it. Maintaining man’s ultimate supremacy over the heavens is, it seems, a byproduct of the Judeo-Christian creation myth that asserts man’s dominion over the Earth and all things on it. To believe in our isolation in the universe carries as much weight with me as the strict literal belief in God’s creation of the world in six twenty-four hour days, beasts after birds and humans populating the planet concurrent with the dinosaur included. Evolutionary scientific evidence be damned. Now I have much MUCH more to say on that particular topic, but for fear of sparking a right wing pseudo-religious outcry in this space, I shall forestall any elaboration for now. Suffice it to say that No, we are not alone. And the little green men may be a lot closer than you think.