The Ithacan

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“Life” has all of the characteristics of a typical alien horror movie, and that is both a blessing and a curse.

Late last month, the inhabitants of Mars welcomed two new arrivals.

Despite having been placed on the governmental back burner due to lack of funding, NASA and its work in space research has continued to be a hot topic. For the 2012 fiscal year, the space administration was allotted $17.8 billion in government funding, $648 million less than the previous year. This budget cut was largely…