It is about time!

in the early evening on Wednesday, the 16th of February 2005 by Chad

NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars.
Not past life, not maybe life, but present, current living life on Mars.

A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.
The scientists, Carol Stoker and Larry Lemke of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, told the group that they have submitted their findings to the journal Nature for publication in May, and their paper currently is being peer reviewed.

Peer reviewed, that’s a good thing…

What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth.

Not “Direct proof”… that’s kind of a bummer…
But it is a start. Main line scientists are starting to proclaim life on Mars. Not quacks or nutcases. So this is progress, huh?