Life On Mars? Or Just Another Conspiracy?

I heard about this on the radio yesterday morning but completely forgot to do any research on this. Thank you MSNBC for reminding me. 2 months ago, NASA's super-rover Spirit beamed over a picture that seems to contain a humanoid of some sort. Its kinda obvious that it is a man-beast-thing but thats what people thought when pictures of "The Face" were released back in the 70's. The figure, dubbed "Mermaid on Mars" kinda looks like Bigfoot but could easily be confused at a rock formation. "Based on analysis of the stereo imagery, the best explanation is that the feature was indeed sculpted - not by a Martian hand, but by the Martian wind".

No doubt, this image will heat up that conspiracy theory pot beyond a boil. What are your thoughts?

Side Note- The image above is the only one i could find.

Space Gods From Where?!

I knew some detail about the Mormon faith, but I had no idea how much of it resembled Scientology.

So, Jesus and Satan are space god brothers, blacks were neutral in the heavenly wars, polygamy is ok once you die and become a space god on a far away space station, and Joseph Smith is the most important man in human history, even more important then Jesus himself. Well, if he could hit a curveball I might see their point...

Anyways, just knowing that both Scientology and Mormonism base their religious beliefs on spirits from space, and things from another planet, is it any wonder that these are the two biggest religions that the United States of America have created in their history? What is it about the Americas that make people focus on things coming from space? Ancient Incas, Scientology, Mormons, Black Bush, Star Wars nerd, they are all fixated with some big bad from outer space in a way that almost no one else really is, fascinating.