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Yes, one has to wonder why flying saucers, quite a blatantly unusual-looking aircraft to be “secretly” investigating another planet with, would be an advanced alien race’s go-to vehicles. Truly, they probably wouldn’t be very efficient! The U.S. government once tried to develop a real-life saucer-shaped aircraft (the Avrocar), but it didn’t perform very well and the project was cancelled. So I guess it’s no wonder the aliens’ flying saucers always crash-land in those stories! That being said, I have a couple model flying saucers sitting on the desk in front of me as I type this, anyway.

Welp, that fiction couldn't become the reality that the U.S government was hoping for. Well...perhaps for the best, as you were saying, since those flying saucer disk vehicles always crash-land onto other planets! But wait... they always crash-land, yes...and always onto Earth, yes (which will happen because our stories will center around our home planet, of course...). Though, the point I'm making with this is that the aliens are usually quite successful at traveling with their saucer disk aircrafts, only crashing and ruining their spaceship when they attempt to land on other foreign planets. So essentially, the only problem for the aliens is their landing trajectory, always leading to unfortunate crashes.
So while in reality the flying saucer disk wouldn't work well in the first place, it seems in our fictional stories, aliens are just super bad at landing their flying spaceship. They need to hire actual alien space pilots, Mo-o-o would say.

And well... what any self-respecting protege of the rainbowfaces would not have some alien memorabilia?

There has indeed been speculation about whether past or present microbial Martian life could be possible as a result of the traces of water found there, and I would love to see that discovery happen someday! The implications would be amazing!

Yep, yep, yep. Mo-o-o would be excited to know about that as well. Though, I'm wondering as well when astronomers will discover evidence of life that used to roam on Mars, not just microbial life found in remaining water. Since from what I've learned/heard about Mars, it should've been a habitable planet for life to be sustained before its atmosphere was completely stripped by the solar winds from the sun. Which unfortunately, was due to the weakening of its magnetic field a very long time ago.

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