Well, if you believe in the Great Filter and how it relates to Fermi's Paradox, finding extinct life on Mars may be a bad thing.
The argument goes something like this: If there is lots of life in the universe, than we should see some evidence of it out there from the more advanced, starfaring life forms.
But we don't.
Two possible reasons we don't: a) Life isn't very abundant, or b) Life is abundant but the Great Filter keeps most life forms from making it to the stars.
Of the two possible answers, "a" is preferable, because it doesn't mean the Great Filter is in our future, but rather in our past. "b" means we aren't out of the woods yet, and long before we spread to the stars, we may get wiped out by a natural or self-made disaster.
The argument has weaknesses, of course. The main one being that even if there are lots of spacefaring species, the ability or desire to alter the night sky or broadcast radio in such a manner that we would notice may not be common or even possible.
Also, if Martian fossils point to the Panspermia Theory, than the above argument doesn't apply, since the Great Filter was deep in our past and we made it. Possibly others have made it, too, and are out there in some form of life in the stellar neighborhood.
), and that the recoil would crash you into the walls each time you pull the trigger :lol: Doom3 sits the action on Mars itself (and I love the design of the base).
