Mo, thanks for the heads up and Mat thanks for featuring my work, very much appreciated.
Some brief thoughts.
I believe Mars only 5,000 years ago was home to human life. It was a planet was as vibrant as earth today with millions of people sharing similar lives to that of you and I - no bulbous eyed little green men, but humans having the same thoughts, fears and insecurities as we have. If the dating of Martian rock is anything to go by then they were probably more technologically advanced than us. Perhaps evolution on Mars actually developed in a straight line, unlike the missing links here on earth. What happened? Impending chaos was probably foreseen however, due to the scale of cosmic catastrophe, predicting the outcome was impossible. That said, one thing ‘our ancestors’ were sure of and that was... Armageddon, this was end of the world and probably the end of human life in the Solar System. I mean, what do you do when you realise at the very least your planet is about to tossed into a washing machine for millennia and then tumble dried with the setting on melt?!
Fortunately for us, there was a frozen rocky planet we know as earth. Rocky in the true sense of the meaning, in that earth at this time was basically one great land mass – Pangea. Ensuing chaos between Mars and earth would see this great land mass split into segments to form the continents (tectonic plates) we recognise today. This would explain why the ocean floors look surprisingly new and offer an explanation to how the Clovis people made contact across the great Atlantic, they didn’t, they simply walked. Encounters with Mars would see the transfer of its vast oceans and volatiles. This mainly occurred above the Trans-Himalayas as Pharaonic Mars locked into a geosynchronous orbit around earth, thus artificially and suddenly dragging up the mountains. The dust and volatiles formed an enormous cosmic ‘tree’ stretching out into space. It was observed by ancient cultures who duly represented it as a sacred or ‘stylised tree’ with a winged disk (mars) above it (prevalent throughout Mesopotamian cultures), sometimes flanked with griffins. The Egyptians saw it as “Horus in the horizon” i.e. the king as the embodiment of Horus literally ‘in’ the dust and debris of the horizon. Mars probably appeared as Tutankhamun’s broach in the image above (Tutankhamun “living image of amun/aurora” = blue, hence Tut/Mars wearing of a bright blue wig) with the ‘tree’ appearing as a cosmic scarab from the local of Egypt. I’m more than convinced the Christmas tree has its origins in the cosmic ‘tree of life.’ Passed down via pagan beliefs.
Anyway, prior to the emergence of the aforementioned cultures pockets of people from Mars somehow made it to earth. How? Obviously spacecraft of some kind. Where are they? Haven’t a clue but the journey was somehow made and the intelligent gene was sown. This was no ‘Hollywood’ migration with “the next shuttle to earth will be leaving in T minus 1” crap. On the contrary, millions of people died on Mars, only a select and fortunate few made it to earth. The evidence? Probably vaporised along with the Martian flora and fauna although I’m optimistic evidence of human life will one day be founds on Mars. Probably in the form of ruins with a Mc Donald’s sign, or perhaps a partially buried ‘planet of the apes’ statue of liberty. We have to remember Mars has been literally torn inside out, a needle in a haystack would be a luxury.
No sooner had the Martians landed than they were almost wiped out. Many times the clock was set to zero but we survived. The migration of humans from Mars is to coincide with the emergence of civilizations around the globe 5,000 years ago. Why wasn’t earth colonised sooner? Don’t know, I can only think conditions were not conducive for human life, not enough oxygen perhaps? Frozen earth? Who knows?
Our ancestors brought with them domesticated animals (embryonic state?) grains, fruit etc. All previously undergoing genetic modification (or GE) previously on Mars. Ancient cultures do not just suddenly ‘domesticate’ animals, they hadn’t the ability, they were not genetic scientists. It was all done on Mars. This is why apples, bananas and pears, etc. are the perfect shape for human hands and most livestock today wouldn’t survive without humans. Much of this appeared 5,000 years ago, this is no coincidence.
The above could be written better but you get the jist.
Gary Gilligan
http://gks.uk.com/