While the bacteria aliens who could conceivably inhabit this area might not be suited to raising human space children, it's still life. On the bright side for alien enthusiasts, the planet does contain water, perhaps even in liquid form, under its ice caps. Originally labeled as "inconclusive," the positive result of one of the four experiments carried out on that mission has since been proven to be a false positive. In the late '70s, the Viking Landers traveled to Mars and carried out experiments to detect life. Once we understood that those were actually barren canyons, we assumed that life was simply not an option on Mars. The earliest scientists even suspected that the dark recesses on Mars were oceans or lakes. Starting centuries ago, astronomers have speculated that because Mars has ice caps, and seasons like Earth does, it may have (or may have once had) life on it. Scientists have long wondered about life on Mars. We don't know for sure whether there is life on Mars. Is Rocket Man a drugs reference A lot of people thought that the line in the song that says Im gonna be high as a kite by then meant that the track was riddled with evil drug references. It's also important to remember that American Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon in 1969, a mere three years before Elton John sang "Rocket Man." Space exploration was on everyone's mind. "Space Oddity" a song written by David Bowie, is considered to be a drug song by some, who see the influence of drug-altered consciousness in its lines, "This is Major Tom to ground control / I'm stepping through the door / And I'm floating in a most peculiar way / And the stars look very different today."Īt the same time, being "high" in both songs could just mean being really really high-literally-in the atmosphere. Interestingly, space songs often involved some metaphorical interpretation of drug use. There's nothing to suggest that lyricist Bernie Taupin really intended the double entendre, but given that the song came out at the peak of the stoner '70s, what else are we supposed to think? Though this song is pretty much set in its astronaut narrative, the phrase "high as a kite" is a common idiom almost always used to refer to drug use.
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