Seriously. If there was microbial life on Mars, the author would consider it "a lower form", and without question promote Elon Musk and Don T's shared vision to terraform mars into a glorified Disney world.

Okay that's not quite fair, nor am I entirely serious. But the point is that there are way too many assumptions going on in this article, and I'm seeing these same seeds still at work here on earth in the ways people treat, say, Cuban people, immigrants or bacteria.