ICA 4-7 Critique the following writing assignment, discussing improvement strategies. For centuries, people have wondered if we were all alone in our universe. Still today, even with our advancements in science we still have not been able to find life anywhere else. Recently the Phoenix Lander discovered what seems to be incontrovertible evidence that water exists on Mars. Since life is dependent on water eye brows have again been raised about the probability that life may exist, or has existed on Mars. So what if life is discovered some- where other than on earth? Are we obligated to protect that life? Does that obligation depend on how advanced the life is? How do we stop ourselves from not destroying the non-terrestrial life? If life is discovered somewhere other than earth, some people will feel threaten, others will feel that maybe somehow human life could be supported by the non-terrestrial's planet and that life is elsewhere out there, maybe life like ours. As far as our obligation to protect that life, it is recommended that we do not interfere. We are having problems with our own planet, people pollute, litter, kill wildlife, start wildfires, cut down forests, and destroy whole ecosystems. Imagine what we will do to life if it doesn't matter to us if it lives or not. No matter how advance the life is we should leave the life to itself, unless the life was able to communicate with us somehow. The only way to keep ourselves from destroying the non- terrestrial life is to just to leave it alone. If we leave it, it wouldn't be our fault if it survives or eventually dies off. Yet still we haven't been able to find life anywhere besides earth so until we do we should try finding ways to turn our planet in the right direction before we lose what supports us.