> It's almost as if we just throwing darks in the dark just to find something. Maybe the conclusion is far more banal The only way to know one way or the other

> It's almost as if we just throwing darks in the dark just to find something. Maybe the conclusion is far more banal The only way to know one way or the other is to prove it, which means sending exploratory missions on all the possible candidates for life nearby. Only THEN you can say that there is nothing. It's not a great scientific approach to stop because you're having doubts about your hypothesis. And personally I do not care if it's a futile search or not, I just want to see high resolution pictures if not videos of Europa, its underground water, Titan and its methane lakes, and maybe Venus one day. I bet they would be even more mind blowing than the images we're seeing from Mars.