INFORMATION REQUIRED TO PROPERLY EVALUATE
THE MARTIAN "INTELLIGENCE HYPOTHESIS"
By Richard C. Hoagland, Founder
The Mars Mission
MARTIAN DATA
() VIKING ANALYSIS REVEALED A MARS POSSESSING ALL THE
ELEMENTS OF LIFE: CARBON, HYDROGEN, NITROGEN AND OXYGEN
() VIKING ANALYSIS ALSO CONFIRMED AN EARLIER EPOCH IN MARTIAN
HISTORY WHEN LIFE COULD HAVE ORIGINATED
() VIKING DATA AND CURRENT EVOLUTIONARY THEORY REVEALED
THAT, THOUGH LONG ENOUGH TO CREATE MARTIAN MICROORGANISMS,
THAT "BENIGN EPOCH" WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO SHORT -- BY
BILLIONS OF YEARS -- TO HAVE PERMITTED ITS EVOLUTION
INTO INTELLIGENCE, CERTAINLY NOT HUMAN-LOOKING
INTELLIGENCE
THEREFORE . . .
IF THE "ANOMALIES" DETECTED IN THE VIKING IMAGES ARE ARTIFACTS, THE "FACE" IS A SPECIFIC SIGNAL TO US,
-- AND THE ARTIFACTS ARE PRODUCT OF AN INTELLIGENCE THAT DID NOT ORIGINATE ON MARS
GENERAL PHYSICS
() THIRTY YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION AND OBSERVATION
HAS LED TO A GENERAL SCIENTIFIC EXPECTATION OF A UNIVERSE
FILLED WITH LIFE.
() IN THOSE THIRTY YEARS, THE CONSENSUS HAS BEEN THAT EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS WISHING TO CONTACT NEIGHBORING CIVILIZATIONS WOULD "PHONE HOME" -USE INTERSTELLAR RADIO TRANSMISSIONS
() RECENT REAPPRAISALS OF TERRESTRIAL TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES IN THE NEXT CENTURY, HOWEVER, INDICATE THAT SUB-LIGHT TRAVEL BETWEEN STARS -- THOUGH EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE AND DIFFICULT BY CURRENT ENGINEERING STANDARDS -- IS NOT PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE
() THUS, RECENT AUTHORS ON "ETS" IN THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE HAVE RIGHTLY ASKED: "WHY NOT LOOK FOR ET-GENERATED PHYSICAL EVIDENCE ON NEAR-BY SATELLITES AND PLANETS?"
FOR THESE REASONS . . .
THERE IS NOTHING "UNSCIENTIFIC" IN SUGGESTING THAT THE CYDONIA OBJECTS VIKING PHOTOGRAPHED -- INCLUDING
"THE FACE" -- COULD BE "EXTRATERRESTRIALLY-GENERATED ARTIFACTS," PLACED IN AN ENVIRONMENT PROVEN (BY VIKING) SUITABLE FOR COLONIZATION BY AN ADVANCED CIVILIZATION
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