# Life on Mars? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 18, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-mars/290624 "2005-02-18T00:19:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-mars/290624/1 "2005-02-18T00:19:01Z")
[And _not_ in some distant past, but **today**!](http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_life_050216.html) > [@](#): > > A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water. > > What Stoker and Lemke have found, according to several attendees of the private meeting, is not direct proof of life on Mars, but methane signatures and other signs of possible biological activity remarkably similar to those recently discovered in caves here on Earth. I’m not sure I believe it, but it’s interesting. I just hope it doesn’t kill plans for a manned mission. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-mars/290624/2 "2005-02-18T00:36:26Z")
Beat ya to it! > **[Life and water on Mars?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=302855)** > > The Today show had someone on who stated that signs of life have been found on Mars in the form of underground water and something about methane. I didn’t get to hear the guy and don’t see anything about that on the major new services this morning.... Fun with farting microbes (maybe)