Boy, I'm glad the National Research Council gave what-for to NASA for not guaranteeing the sterilization of rovers Spirit and Opportunity, both now exploring the red planet.  I've been worried sick that human viruses are going to wipe out Martian life before we get a fighting chance to discover it. . .

Apparently Steven Spielberg has done a very convincing job in his version of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," because that's the very same scenario that the NRC is pitching to NASA, after tight budgets prodded the space organization to scale back some very expensive sterilization techniques that had been used in earlier missions to mars.  They're afraid resilient microbes from earth are "contaminating" possible Martian microbes.

Uhh, "War of the Worlds" is fiction, guys.  Martian life has never been found, despite the colorful imaginations of Wells and Spielberg, who continue to delight us.

Actually, this could be a blessing in disguise.  If a microbe from earth were really on one of those rovers, and it secretly jumped on a Martian rock, imagine the ruckus that would explode when that rock is examined:  "NASA FINDS LIFE ON MARS!"
And from then on evolutionists would argue theories as to how the same species of microbe evolved independently on two separate planets.  Sigh.