This is the thing I don’t get. There’s multiple government and non government organisations round the world spending huge sums of money on satellites, telescopes, radio telescopes etc all looking out to space for signs of life yet none think it’s worthwhile to divert funds for a more ‘terrestrial’ search. Maybe they don’t want to capture that 1 definitive image that would make all involved rich and famous!? Maybe all those very clever folk focussed on the stars looking for signs of alien life just never thought to look closer to home. Or maybe there’s another reason……hmmmm