remember the Martian banyan trees?

I sure as hell do. I loved those damned things. It irked me that there seem little interest in the serious scientific community to follow up on what the hell those things were. They were some Martian organism analogous to plant or fungi in my mind. Arthur C. Clarke looked at them and saw the same thing.

Ha! Screw you, "serious" people.

Now it seems that those lovely Martian banyans are probably like those other weird, but explainable, phenomenon on Mars, these spider-web patterns created by what seems gas escaping from the ground.

My heart's kinda broken. I'm 99.999% convinced. I still cannot let go of poring over those photos looking for anomalies though.

Martian soil "may" contain life

yeah, yeah, yeah... i made up my mind on this years ago. This is based from 30 year old data gathered by the Viking probes as well. Not only will it be revealed that there is microbial life, but there will be higher level organisms, akin to plants or fungi, on the surface of Mars.

Someday i'll stop sounding like a fringe lunatic, but it won't be until they 'fess up about life on Mars. All of this pussyfooting around about fossils on meteorites, terran microbes that can live in more adverse conditions than what exist on Mars, gradually admitting that water is on Mars, and possible in liquid forms, plus those peculiar photos that even Arthur C. Clarke thinks look like trees... i'm waiting.