Posted by tourdemars to Life on Mars at March 27, 2005 11:20 PM

Occam's Razor: Faced with multiple possible explanations, don't go for the splashiest; choose the simplest - the one that requires the least number of coincidences - the one that is least astonishing. If the simplest explanation doesn't pan out, move on to the next simplest (which is also a bit more astonishing). The leader of the team running an instrument aboard Mars Express - a European Space Agency spacecraft orbiting Mars - believes his data imply something truly astonishing: Martians.