Well, that's where Elvis beats Shatner, man -- you don't have to be "into" the King to be influenced by his Infinite power. Whereas unless you're Canadian you're probably totally outside the tiny little field of power influenced by Shatner. I mean you never heard an answering machine message saying "William Shatner has lkeft the building", now didja? See???

LOL.

As to Mars, I believe there is a great deal we leave out of our models of the cosmos and I would love to learn that someone had distinctly identified artifacts of any kind on Mars; it would completely revolutionizer our beliefs about our history, for one thing.

But until there is some hard evidence, I'm afraid Fibula is right -- the desperate search for Patterns with Higher Meaning, the favorite indoor hobby of those uncomfortable with their present lives and fleeing from more immediate hard questions, will answer up to anything leading to higher powers, more ancient beginnings, cosmic interactions, or anything else that will provide a distraction from cleaning up the old living room!!

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