Re: Hitchhiking Bacteria could compromise the detection of life on Mars
"Assuming we find life somewhere else in this solar system and it's not DNA template life that coulda been carried there eons ago, biological sciences will get a major boost."
Even if it's transferred life, it'll be the biggest event since DNA discovery, or maybe bigger. Finding ocean-floor life was a very big deal, but those tube worms and chemosynthetic bacteria are kissing cousins compared to what we'd find on Mars or Europa.
Anyway, transferred life would still leave the question open of where life first started.