Closer to E.T.

Closer to E.T.

It took me by surprise. I shrieked without my knowledge. It was loud enough. I drew attention. 

I did not in the least expect to see this. I was just going through the lines of the newspaper reading about the papal conclave, and suddenly, this article popped out from the "Science & Tech" page. How shocking it was. The headline read, "Mars had the right conditions for life". This was the reason i shrieked! i just vaguely went by and two words caught my attention, "Mars" and "life". They wrote that the Gale crater into which the "Curiosity" rover was sent, collected samples of the mud. after examining it, they found elements such as sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorous and carbon. It seemed as if the thing that happened in my dream was going to get real sooner than i thought. Atleast, the E.T. part of it. 

Reading this, the thought struck if me if what Arthur C. Clarke wrote was correct. That his "fiction":"Talking of space, Report on planet three", was right about the end of Mars' civilisation, brought about by a nuclear explosion, millenia ago, when "The Greeks were storming Troy." Maybe that is how these elements were found. Maybe, E.T. is still living somewhere on that planet. Somewhere under the red deserts. Somewhere, still spying on us, as they did ages ago.