And once again we fell for it. This was the "one for the history books" news announcement that NASA has been teasing us with for weeks. Really NASA, really?
Sounds suspiciously like another history-making announcement, but then that one was, "Whoops. It was just a weather balloon. Nothing to see here folks, move along."
This storyline is getting tired.
No alien fossils—never mind anything actually living, not even any verifiably organic compounds of Martian origin (what may have been found may have come from earth and transported board the spacecraft). Seriously, NASA? Don't you sterilize your shit before you go shipping it halfway across the solar system? We're contaminating the Martian environment before we even get to analyze it?
As Charlie Brown said, "You must think [we're] stupid."
It's no wonder certain groups see conspiracies swirling around everything you do relating to Mars, NASA. Back in 1976, the Viking landers supposedly returned definitive proof of life based on the experiments you created just for that very purpose. But then after announcing it, you backpeddled and said oh no—that was actually just some "strange chemistry."
Please.
The Phoenix lander supposedly also detected organic compounds in the soil, but again…oopsie! "Our bad. We were mistaken."
At this point I have to ask: if the experiments you send to Mars to detect life keep reporting life but not really, isn't it time to start hiring some different designers who actually know what they're doing and stop jerking us all around?
It's always, "Oh, on the next mission we'll get answers." Because constantly looking for life but never actually finding any maintains the status quo (discovery of alien life—even bacterial—would upend every organized religious system on this planet) and keeps everyone at NASA, JPL, and your various subcontractors pretty much employed for life now doesn't it?
Or at least as long as the American public keeps falling for this bullshit and funding you.
At this point I think most anyone with half a brain has accepted that there's life on Mars, as well as under the ice of Europa, and probably scattered throughout the universe, so why the continued bullshit bait-and-switch crap? Just admit that you've found it and let us move on and absorb the most momentous discovery in human history.