Labels: text | machine | screenshot OCR: THE SEARCH FOR LIFE METEORITES THE SETI PROGRAM Two centuries later, French writer Camille Flammarion, wrote with equal ardor, "By what miracle of perpetual annihilation could the forces of Nature-which here on Earth produce life, multiplying it to its own detriment, and which sow with such a prodigious hand billions of existences each day, each hour, each minute, on the whole of our globe, at the bottom of the seas as well as on the mountain peaks- how could these same forces remain infertile on a world such as Mars, which is placed exactly in the light of the same Sun and within the same web of the vibrations as our own earthly home?" MARS BETAT