I'm with you stellar
Put on your tin foil hats folks, CBH99 is slowly leaking what a crazy conspiracy theorist he is :Tin-Foil-Hat:
I don't think we will ever have an 'official, definitive' answer from the powers at be about a prior civilization on Mars. But holy cow, is there not an overwhelming amount of evidence to suggest there was a civilization there at one point. When you start going down the rabbit hole...even when you exclude questionable sources, it's still absolutely mind boggling & in my case, captures the imagination almost instantly.
Like many life-related questions about things in our own solar system, they don't call NASA never-a-straight-answer for nothing
I think it's safe to say that with the amount of evidence of past life - even at the microbial level - and going even less exciting than that, microbes possibly found in the polar ice caps (which would be liquid water if melted) - it would blow me away if there wasn't ANYTHING AT ALL organic on the martian surface.
Below are 2 links to a podcast I follow, called Event Horizon. He interviews a variety of astronomers, physicists, etc etc about different astronomy related topics. This particular episode is about possibly finding microbial life in 1964 via the Viking landers. Fascinating to listen to :nod: :2c:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykTxJCkJYwI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykTxJCkJYwI
^^ The condensed version, but not as interesting & educational as the full episode, which I found included information about the experiments I hadn't previously known, and where the different landers actually fell.