Spacecraft crashing into Moon and did life once exist on Mars?

Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:
g Abodes - Did life once exist on Mars? See article.
g Message - SETI scientists in 2004 predicted, “We'll detect an extraterrestrial transmission within 20 years.” See article.
g Cosmicus - Two U.S. spacecraft are set to crash on the moon today. On purpose. And we're all invited to watch. See article.
g Aftermath - Here’s a hidden gem about alien contact: the science fiction story “Contact, Incorporated”, about a private company that Earth’s government hires to make first contact with extraterrestrials. It’s from 1950 and appears in the seminal classic, “The Classic Book of Science Fiction,” edited by Groff Conklin (your library ought to have this volume). Despite being more than a half-century old, it remains an intriguing examination of how to communicate with aliens.

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