What happens if we find fossils on Mars?

I won't predict the markets, but here's what I predict they will find on Mars: radiation decayed DNA and cell fragments. The scientifically illiterate media will initially claim that life has been discovered on Mars. Then everyone will remember that astronomers have calculated that a percent or two of all projectile material thrown from the earth in past asteroid/comet/meteor collisions will end up on Mars. And then they'll be in a quandary because the DNA fragments sure seem to match those on earth...
 
Here are a few good links from me:

Send your name to a comet - for free!
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/sendyourname/index.html

The who-is-who in managing (european) space flights:
http://www.esoc.esa.de/pr/virtualtour/personnel.html


And, by the way, I've been to the ESOC a few years ago.
Incredibly interesting: in the main control room, they've attached a big piece of wreckage from the Ariane that exploded a few years ago, just a few meters behind the backs of the controllers.
Maybe scary, but I guess still a quite effective motivational theory :)

And I also met a very bright British guy there, about 33 years old. He told me that he was trained for 7 years to manage one of the 7 or so spacecrafts from above mentioned Ariane that should have analyzed the sun rays. Imagine getting trained for 7 years, and then your spacecraft explodes one minute after take off! :eek:
 
Yep... the market will rise because I know that Osama is hiding with the Marsians.

Or...

I hope we find aliens like that movie, "Mars Attacks"
 
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