Alien Spotted On Mars?!

In the ever going quest to explore outer space, in our search for treasure, gold, true love and life, progress seems to be taken in little steps. Sure, back on July 20th, 1969 mankind took its first steps on the moon. Now, as we ready ourselves to step foot on another planet for the first time, images of what that trip may have in store for us become public. Now that image was taken when Spirit landed on Mars back on the 24th January of 2004. Some of my cohorts in the blogging community write it off as a shadow trick, or lighting trick. Others claim that it is indeed life on mars.

In the blown up version of the same image we see that it could indeed be a rock with an odd shadow, or a silhouette of something else. Or it could be some sort of bipedal creature, off to eat rocks and wash them down with space dust.

Regardless of what this may or may not be, the fact remains that we probably won't find out until man explores that planet, or the big hairy creature comes to dine on our exquisite, luxurious rock breeds. But the uneasiness of what we may come across there, the sheer hostility of the planet, the voyage and the endless bounds of space is only further fueled by this speculation. The men and women making that trip may be on their way to define an event in history, or on their way to the slaughter house in a blatant suicide mission without hope.

Mankind will indeed push the ethics of morality and humanity when it makes this push into the depths of our solar system. Not one person involved can consciously admit that the team responsible for this trip has not prepared, or at least be in the midst of preparing, emergency protocols for this adventure. They will come prepared to find water, discover ancient artifacts of sentient, intelligent life and they will come prepared to be received by an unknown civilization. If it is the latter of those, then be sure that the "shoot first, ask later" routine would come into play and that we may find ourselves succumbing to a sickness that we cannot be cured of: the conquest of the universe.

The truth of the matter is, we cannot afford this to be an alien life form. Mankind has yet to understand and exhibit the maturity required to deal with that kind of event yet, and until we can stop blowing up each other over petty differences in skin colour and religion, how can we trust ourselves with a species that came from an entirely different thesis of evolution.