The Search for Life

In this year’s January issue of National Geographic there appeared the following title, “The Search for Life. The article dealt with the search for life on the planet Mars by the two Viking landers. Complex and intricate scientific experiments were carried out by the landers to determine if any life similar to that found on our planet Earth existed on Mars. But let us draw our attention to the title of that article and not the article itself. Considering the title alone, one could write...