THE MARS ROVER "CURIOSITY" seems to have a great deal more (curiosity) than the average human. Slowly, carefully, the car sized machine has been moving around in the crater in wh ich it landed several weeks ago, making great video, and even greater discoveries.
Meanwhile, all this is largely ignored by the mainstream, media, and society. If we could all find it within ourselves to pretend that Curiosity is a video game, a reality TV show, or some sort of violent competition, then our interest might spike upward.
For decades the big question has been, is there water on mars, has there ever been water on mars, and if so, how much, and in what form? And now, finally, we have the conclusive answer.
There were once deep, rapidly flowing rivers on mars. The place where rover is not looking seems to have once been a river between six inches and four feet deep, flowing fast. This means that there was something other than water for the rivers to flow over and through; land.
And just what was that land like? What, or who, lived and grew there? Those are the next questions, and odds are that more microbiological research will eventually reveal the answers.
Richard C. Hoagland, a former science advisor with NASA, believes that the human species evolved on mars, then, when the planet began to die, transported itself to the eath, and started all over, and in the process forgot about its martian origins.
And just maybe that's the way it happened. Human skin and eyes seem much better suited for greater distance from the blazing sun than we co urrently have. So who knows. Those who laugh at people with these kinds of theories have a little bit less to laugh about today.
If we ,as a culture, can drag ourselves away from our daily staple of gratuitous escape enterteinment long enough to really look at mars, and the rest of the universe in which we miraculously live, the real entertainment is just beginning.
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