"Potential Discovery of Life on Mars Raises Existential Concerns for Humanity"

The discovery of life on Mars could have significant implications for humanity, according to Oxford University philosophy professor Nick Bostrom. He believes that finding evidence of advanced civilizations would be good news, but discovering the wrong stages of life in our own solar system would be the worst possible news, indicating that the bulk of the "Great Filter" is still in humanity's future and raising the probability of human extinction before technological maturity.