Life on Mars a sure thing
Accoding to the oddsmakers:
LONDON - Some British bookies on Wednesday stopped taking bets that life once existed on Mars after a NASA probe found evidence that the Red Planet at one time had a wet climate.
Ladbrokes said it has closed the book on evidence emerging that Mars had ever harbored living organisms.
"Following the latest news from NASA, we think it is now likely that evidence of past life on Mars will be found in the coming years," said spokesman Warren Lush.
The odds on past life on Mars were 16 to 1 when the book closed, down from 1,000 to 1 when the first bets were taken in the 1970s.
So now we know.