Recently, I just googled an article by a John Brandenberg who seems convinced that Mars was actually the site of a living civilizations until it had been wiped out by nuclear destruction...from space. Then I came up with a theory... We have always wondered what we would do if the human race were somehow threatened with total annihilation. According to popular myths like most of the worlds primal religions and sci-fi books like "Childhoods End" or "Seveneves", the instinct is to preserve the race in a sort of arc and move it into relative safety. I guess you could include Superman in that as well... So...my theory is that maybe human beings might actually have been descended from those Martians. However, there is more than one theory... 1. Human beings are the remnants of the civilization of mars 2. Human beings were an experimental project by those who left Mars to see if earth was inhabitable. A sort of zoo, in which truly alien life either created or cultivated us to live on earth and do something...kind of like how we take algae, dolphins, or whatever, and make them do things for us. This would leave a big question like...what happend to the first Martians then. Well, if theory 1 is true, then the transition from a Mars environment to an earth environment would likely not be smooth. Remember, people suffer from bioloigcal upsets just moving from country to country. Diseases destroyed peoples who were not exposed to them previously. Even if Mars was an earth-like planet, there is still enormous difficulty in transitioning. This would likely mean that only a very small group of those Martians would have been able to survive. It is also likely that they might have, in an effort to lessen the effects of the alien environment, built underground cities where they could, potentially, control the atmosphere a little better. If theory 2 is correct, than those Martians may have never been able to acclimate to earths environment themselves, which would explain why humanity had to...pull itself up by it's own bootstraps, so to speak. We would have been an experiment abandoned by a race that went extinct. But they wouldn't have went away immiediately though. Likely, those who had the power to cultivate humanity on earth would have the ability of prolonged space travel or space-habitation. This means that they could have possibly existed as a sort of isolated arc-community in space. They would have watched earth from afar and like deep-sea divers, came down to intervene at crucial moments. Whether they have died out or are still watching is the question, but if they are watching us, then maybe the need to preserve the illusion of a self-contained existence on earth is the reason for their minimalist interference in the world. Maybe such things were more common in the past and, overtime, they learned not to interfer so much. To be subtle in their analysis...or experiment. Which brings me round to Christianity, which is a parallel story. Humanity was created by a God. They were given the earth to flourish, and then, being displeased, God erased the board except for a control group. He re-initiated the experiment. More fialures, presumably, or some disappointing results. So they try a different tactic. They use coercion in the form of ideology. They send a wonder-men to the world to try and move them to another design. This seems to fail. The consistent narrative thereafter seems to be that if humanity keeps failing an unknown ambition, we might be erased again. So, er... Is this a good Dan Brown-esque theory, or is it a lilttle too off-center?
