While absolutely true, it did take time, fraught with a whole lot of failure to bring us to this point where we feel the need to recognize a potential and proba

While absolutely true, it did take time, fraught with a whole lot of failure to bring us to this point where we feel the need to recognize a potential and probable impending failure (again). Life may compete with the elements as it has for so long and so many times on Earth, or become completely obliterated as it may have been on a planet such as Mars. Then again, without a long enough window of time for observance, we really have very little way to determine if life on Mars is already well on its way to a huge resurgence. A lot of change happens in a little as 100,000 years...