Did humans come from Mars?

We’ve already learnt so much from our lovely little Mars Science Laboratory trundling around on Mars. Ultimately, what exactly is it that Curiosity will tell us?

(A human face on Mars?)

In reality it won’t say anything for definite, but it’ll maybe help us conclude that an extremely long time ago Mars was a planet not too dissimilar to Earth. Something big and important, an extinction level event, happened to make things change, we will assume.  Or maybe Mars came to its fairly natural end as a useful life-supporting rock.

You know, I rather like an interesting speculation that I’ve heard.  I don’t believe it, there’s no evidence for it, but let me share it.

How about considering that humans started a little further back in our solar system.  Then, as each planet became an inhospitable mess, we humans boarded our space ‘Arks‘ and shuttled to the next.

That would mean that at one time we lived and breathed on Jupiter.  As (or before) it turned into a gas giant we hopped over to Mars.  As that became baron we did a giant leap for mankind to Earth.  When we need to leave Earth, maybe Venus will have become ready and welcoming.

Get the idea?

Maybe by the time we need to vacate Venus, our Sun will be ready to end its life and so Mercury won’t be an option.

What will we do then?

Well, whatever, it’s not going to be my problem, I guess!

Life, in the form of the human race leaping from planet to planet as each one becomes impossible to survive on is in itself a rather deliciously divisive idea because religious people hate it.  Especially those inflicted with one of the Middle Eastern originating belief systems.

For them, the idea that the human seed may have hopped from continent to continent on earth, somehow making its way across vast oceans in order to then survive and flourish as a different ‘race’, a different looking variation on the human being, is perfectly plausible to them.  However, the idea that the human seed may have similarly hopped from planet to planet makes their heads explode as they desperately clutch their ancient instruction books full of well-thumbed pages entitled ‘Genesis‘.

Apparently, their ‘god’ only created life on Earth and nowhere else, so there!  That’s us told.

But, hey, what if the story of Noah and the Ark is in reality a primitive telling of the tale of packing everything up from one planet and moving onto the next?  That obviously makes far more sense than the variation based on suddenly drowning everybody on Earth apart from the species that eat each other being put into a single wooden boat and happily not eating each other!  Maybe the story of ‘rains’ and ‘the flood’ is the tale of Jupiter becoming inhospitable.  It certainly fits.

Ok, so, any logical person might ask why we can’t ‘remember’ these inter-planetary journeys?  Where’s the technology now?  Where are all the humans involved in organising it all?  Where’s our collective knowledge of it? Why isn’t it part of our history?

Well, of course, humanity itself is quite flimsy, and there are many great and advanced civilisations that have come and gone, leaving behind a legacy of those weird and wonderful things we can’t quite fathom like pyramids and Stonehenge and so on.  Humanity doesn’t necessarily kill itself off, although we are a naturally warring species.  Most likely, natural disasters and pandemic diseases will have been the knock-backs that helped erase knowledge of the far distant past.  

Even looking at humanity across the Globe right now, we can see that our differing races, locations and differing experiences and knowledge have brought us to differing levels of development.  It becomes plausible to accept that from time to time we ‘roll-back’, wiping ourselves out almost entirely, and have to start maturing and learning all over again.  This is pretty obviously why we have no idea how the pyramids got there or what Stonehenge was really built for, and can only ever speculate about the truth.  Hence why we have no collective memory of the ‘Arks‘ or where all that inter-planetary technology that shuttled us here has gone.

Maybe the original space ‘Arks‘ are hidden and waiting for the many many millennia to pass before they reveal themselves when it’s time to head for Venus.

Some even suggest that a ‘superior’ version of a human race who act as our ‘gatekeepers’ wait asleep for that day to arrive.  Or maybe they are watching over us as we develop.

Actually, isn’t that just a variation on what god-botherers believe?