And what&#x27;s wrong with that? 
Martian life vs colonization is nothing more than an anecdote once we find signs of it it&#x27;s nice and all but no one is going to go out of their way to preserve it long term if it means that colonization will be affected.<p>Eventually there will be life on mars whether it evolved &quot;naturally&quot; there or evolved just as &quot;naturally&quot; some where else and was brought there doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s a rocket or a comet on the cosmological scale both of those processes are just as &quot;natural&quot;.<p>Heck if we find a planet inhabited by self replicating robots they would pretty much automatically count as life, the fact that they aren&#x27;t made out of some arrangement of self arranging molecules doesn&#x27;t make it any less &quot;natural&quot; in the grand cosmic scheme.