We let taxi drivers buy half million dollar houses. We're all gonna get our power from solar and wind farms. Everybody's gonna be driving electric cars in a couple of years. Why shouldn't laymen be able to write computer code?

So we spend hundreds of millions of dollars specifically to send a spacecraft across the void to look for signs of life and water. Did anybody actually think to put a few seeds onboard to just toss out and see if they might grow? I mean, we can do molecular spectroscopy from 10 million miles away an nobody thought to thow some seeds in there?