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FILE: ARES2.TXT
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AUTHOR: Martin E. Arant
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DATE: 05-20-89
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SUBJECT: Mars Face
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SUBMITTED BY: Martin E. Arant
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"The chance of finding intelligent life on Mars is one trillion to one,
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against!" Considering this view is held by the majority of planetary
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scientists and astronomers, is it any wonder that the scientific
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community immediately discarded the Martian face as a trick of "lighting
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and shadows." Is it any wonder that the search for extraterrestrial
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intelligence is relegated to the paradigm that ET will FAX home? Before
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discussing what has been discovered in Cydonia, the importance of the
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evidence which has been "unearthed" AND its implications, it is
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important to understand why this issue has not, until the recent release
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of compelling new evidence, been taken seriously by the scientific
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community.
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The Viking missions were sent to Mars, in part, to look for evidence of
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life, microbial life. No one expected to find artifacts or the evidence
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of an ancient civilization. When we take a close look at Mars and its
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evolutionary history, the reason for this presumption becomes very clear
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and totally understandable.
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Mars is the fourth planet from the sun, a "terrestrial" planet formed
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roughly 4.5 billion years ago from the same basic raw materials as Venus
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and the Earth. It is assumed that Mars underwent similar geological
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processes as our own planet during its early stages. This included
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volcanism, the "outgassing" of a relative thick atmosphere, and the
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presence of large amounts of liquid water on its surface. Water erosion
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is quite evident from the numerous riverbeds and channels which can be
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seen in the Mariner and Vikings photos. There is even growing evidence
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that an ancient ocean once existed in the northern hemisphere of the
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planet. Whereas the southern hemisphere is heavily crated (almost to
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the same degree as the moon), the northern hemisphere is relatively free
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of cratering. In addition, the Viking landers found large amounts of
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Chlorine in the Martian surface material. It is important to note that
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both Viking landers set down in an area that is below the "mean sea
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level" of the planet. The past presence of large amounts of liquid
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surface water is suggestive of both a past mean temperature far above
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the present temperature of -50F and a past surface air pressure much
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higher than the todays atmospheric pressure of 500 millibars (roughly
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one-half of one percent of Earths surface pressure). The fact that
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liquid water cannot exist today on the surface because of low
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temperatures and the absence of a dense atmosphere proves that the
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Martian environment once was at least "somewhat" more hospitable than it
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is today.
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Most geological and physical models seem to indicate that this "warm
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and moist" period lasted from only a few hundred million years to
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perhaps as long as one half billion years. The reasons for this are
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based on several well established facts. Mars is farther from the sun
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than Earth, is less than one half the size of earth, and has a surface
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gravity of roughly one third that of Earth. The geological engine which
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has so effectively recycled the Earths atmosphere simply ran out of
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steam on Mars. This apparently resulted in Mars "freezing to death"
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early in its geological history.
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The thick atmosphere, with its warming greenhouse effect, slowly escaped
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to space, leaving the planet cloaked in a thin veil of carbon dioxide;
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a dry, barren and desolate world, not much more than a rusted-out cog
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spinning slowly on the cosmic wheel Not time enough for complex life
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forms to evolve. Not time enough for Martians!
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The evolution of complex Martian life forms, however, is not necessarily
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required to explain the existence of intelligent remains on the Martian
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surface. Could it be that extra-solar beings colonized Mars sometime
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in the distant past? Is it possible that they just might have
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left a "sign" for us in the form of a human face. The idea is not
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quite so preposterous as it initially sounds. Consider This: There are
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over one-hundred billions stars in our galaxy alone. That means that
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there could be over 100 billion planetary systems, each possibly
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harboring a blue-green planet; each one, perhaps, destined to become
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home to a advanced civilization. When we consider this possibility,
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however, we quickly run into problems. Why would such a civilization
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choose Mars instead of Earth? Why did they leave after they colonized
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Mars? Why a "human face" on the surface? How could they have possibly
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known that the human form would eventually evolve on the third planet
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from the sun? But perhaps the best reason for discounting this scenario
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as a possibility has nothing to do with the calculation of odds and
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probabilities. It simply comes down to this: Very few scientists and
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researchers are willing to get within a light year of "extra-solar
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visitors." The subject has been oversold, over-hyped, and over-hoaxed!
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If one, therefore, considers the above, one is almost forced
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to come to the same conclusion as our planetary scientists and
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astronomers: There never has been an intelligence presence on Mars. The
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question would, therefore, seem to be settled and the subject closed.
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There can be no faces on Mars. There can be no pyramids on Mars. There
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can be no complex geometric alignments on Mars. In other words, THEY
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SIMPLY CAN'T EXIST... Only one problem: THEY DO!
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