What we tried to do, simply, was take almost all of the information we could and put it together and say ‘is the big picture consistent with there being life on Mars?’

– Astrobiologist Charlie Lineweaver.

Take a look at the lawmen
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best-selling show…
Is the big picture consistent with there being life on Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-hharrrrs?

Seriously though, this is a reasonably interesting article right up until this part:

“It’s not important if you want to figure out what the laws of physics are and you want to talk to some intelligent aliens who could build spaceships.”

Oh, nevermind then. I thought we were talking spaceship aliens.

Back to Bowie. Call me when Martians make anything this awesome: