This scene was meant to give the first act of the Planetarium a little bit of an imaginative punch. A show called “Signs of Life,” would be lesser if we didn’t address some of the earliest, scientifically thoughtful hypothesis’s of life beyond earth. Goin back to the late 1800’s we draw inspiration from astronomer, Percival Lowell’s mistaken interpretation of “canal’s” on Mars and H.G. Wells break out story, “War of the Worlds