The latest curiosity "CONFIRMATION".. some big deal..?

You clearly either never read or at least totally fail to understand the results just announced. The important new information was NOT the presence of water, but of some of the basic chemical elements necessary for life:

"Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- in the powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month."

Clearly you have no appreciation how hard it is to do this kind of research without actually having people on the scene with a lab to back them up. At closest approach, Mars is over 200 times farther away than the Moon. Radio signals take like 20 minutes to get there--doing research on Mars is Hard. The finding of proof of past water on Mars is a big deal. Finding evidence of microbes on Mars is a much bigger step from there than you imagine.

Time for a dose of reality ---

Curiosity is NOT looking for life, or for traces of past life.

Scientists know that life does not exist on Mars.

One of Curiosities tasks is :

To determine if conditions favorable for life have ever existed on Mars

It is known that they don't exist now, and it is suspected that this has always been so.

Now we are looking at the evidence. We sent Curiosity to Mars to gather facts.

We've already got a lot of fiction regarding life on Mars.

Now we are doing the hard yards. At a cost of US$1 billion, we are gathering real information about Mars.

Where it leads is a matter for scientists. And it may be years before we know anything definitive.

A new rover will be launched in 2016. InSight, a $425 million lander mission for 2016, with a drill and seismometer to determine the interior structure of Mars.

A landing by humans was originally tentatively slated for 2038. --- That's because it was expected to take that long to gather the needed information on selecting a landing site.

So it is a case of waiting ... and waiting.

PS : no evidence of microbial life is likely, now, or ever.

You missed the press release about Mars having water that day. Probably the same day they taught the other kids spelling.