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Welcome to Mars - Now Go Home.
This is not a dissertation on Martian civilization.
There would be too much speculation in that, and I told you the
opening story was the only fiction included here. But context is always
necessary, so a little background is warranted- with a minimum of
speculation added to tie things together a bit more smoothly, and not as
much as you’ll probably think There
are alternative theories available for some details, and I’ll point
out one of them as an example. Feel free to substitute others you may
find more to your liking, as it won’t have any effect on the main
points to follow. There is no point to getting in a pissing contest with
David Icke or Zechariah Sitchin or any other author who is sure they
have the definitive answers. Just like Earthly politics, there
have always been many
sub-agendas in play, which means plenty of disinformation for everyone
to attempt to sift through, and.
Once upon a time, Mars was part of a binary
planetary system, orbiting around another world as both orbited the Sun.
Dr. Tom van Flandern has a well developed model he calls the Exploded
Planet Hypothesis which takes a different view, seeing Mars as once a
satellite of a much larger planet. There’s that example I mentioned,
and if I did that constantly, defending and contrasting would consume so
many pages you’d forget what we were discussing altogether. In either
case, the other planet was destroyed, leaving Mars to fend for itself,
and eventually it settled into a slightly different orbit. This
disruption wrecked havoc on the entire Solar System, gravitational,
hyperdimensional (the symmetry was broken), and through the assault of
the chunks and pieces accelerated outward that struck the other planets.
Some of the material spread out in the local neighborhood to form the
asteroid belt. One little piece tagged along with Mars to become its
smaller moon, Deimos. The other moon, Phobos, is artificial, the craft
that ferried people to Earth, parked carefully above Mars after its work
was done. By the way, do
not make the mistake of assuming that there was only one catastrophic
event that ever befell this system. You are encouraged to be skeptical
of anyone who tries to present a model
tying everything from the extinction of the dinosaurs to the fall
of Atlantis and the parting of the Red Sea for the Israelites escaping
Egypt together too neatly. Stuff happens, and for various reasons, and
at different times. The main civilization of that Old Culture was
actually on the planet which was lost, and Mars was the First Colony.
They also colonized the large moons of Jupiter and Saturn. It was that
dispersal which allowed the civilization to survive at all. It was a
long time, however, before they were able to return to a semblance of
what they had been, as the outer colonies were reduced to sealed dome
cities holding the small populations of survivors. Although they
previously had been able to maintain suitable open atmospheric pressure
on those moons, that became
impossible under the new conditions. Ganymede was the first great
reconstruction project, with a dome covering the entire planetoid. But
that dome was breached by a large asteroid impact (the hole is in fact
visible on Voyager images), and the moon had to be abandoned. Mars
became the new center, and all efforts were focused there. In a sense,
that was the Barsoom period of Mars, with the various races of survivors
all working together to keep the place habitable, and to attempt to
build a new technology and science. That was also the period during
which the interaction with Earth began that culminated in the
Age of the
Gods here, the Age that forever shaped our own history.
Prior to that first catastrophic event,
commemorated and then later miscast in Myth as The Fall, the Old Culture
had advanced to a level far beyond that of most if not all of the Races
which have come calling to this system in more recent times. That’s
why the Outsiders came here, not to shepard the development of
wayward Humanity, but to pick the bones of our forefathers. This
is where the story gets a little more complex, because the original
Martians did not look “just like us”- but in a sense they wanted to. The first inhabitants of Mars looked a lot like
Yoda from the
Star Wars movies, except they were taller and not
always blue. Since they preferred a lower gravity environment than
Earth, their expansion colonies were the large moons of Jupiter and
Saturn. They were virtually immortal, and their population never
large by Earth standards. Some
scientific theories about the forms Life might take on other planets
present the idea of infinite variation, but that does not seem to be the
case. There is an optimal configuration for any ecological niche, so
there is a basic template for each that
will prevail. What this ultimately means is that we live in
a Star
Trek
universe. There are a lot of Humanoids out there, a lot of
bipedal, bi-symmetrical beings from 4 to 8 feet tall. There are Elder
races who travel among the stars, planting suitable life wherever they
find a viable environment. Then they move on, hoping only to run into
the descendants of that seeding someday. You could call it Proactive
Panspermia. So it is no surprise that most planets with an oxygen-rich
atmosphere are going to have life with similar DNA. Exactly how those first Martians fit into this
story is still unclear, I am sorry to say. It is time to return to two points mentioned earlier. One, the relationship between Consciousness and dimensions, and the other, the remark about Phobos. |
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