In 1911, the LA Times reported that Earth was close to extinction and said :
“Martians have far greater reason to deny that there is life on the earth than we do that they do not exist.”
04 Feb 1911, 5 – The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com
Apparently we survived the Martian fate, but ran out of time in 2013.
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