Life on Mars 
Some people seem so certain of the truth. They claim to know what is. We do not make such a claim. We believe some things and with each new day and new experiences and understanding we may change our views. This is the health warning written for this article. Whilst we have researched discussed, debated and experienced many things we are not so arrogant to believe we have the one definable truth. So if you agree or disagree or have a different view of any of the following - good. It is the richness of sharing and learning from each other that makes this journey not only valuable but also so very enjoyable.
Life on Mars?
It is believed that the universe is more than 13 billion years old and our planet grew from space dust about four billion years ago, the development of human kind debatably anywhere between 3 and 1 million years ago.
Over the last decades, the slow and cautious drip feed of information from the space agency’s has carefully prepared us for the idea of life existing in our neighbourhood. Even ten years ago this news would have been sensational. Many believe that the evidence of life from other parts of the universe is incontrovertible and that governments have colluded in a conspiracy of silence.
“Astrobiologists insist that life on mars, like the once-plentiful water on Mars, could simply have gone underground …. And may yet be discovered, extant or extinct.
Sobal D. The Planets p 141 2006
Today however, with adequate preparation and the idea that subterranean life in our solar system is at best bacterial and certainly not as “developed” or “intelligent” as ourselves, leaves a sense of supremacy and conversations regarding the potential for “colonisation” leading people to believe if there is anything “out there” we have a right to claim the territory and resources.
The Drake Equation is a formula to suggest where to look and listen in the universe for intelligent life. N=N* fp ne fl fi fe fl (Calculating the probability of intelligent life in the Milky Way Galaxy). Franks Drakes theory concludes that the average distance between intelligent life could be 1700 light years. With the most recent news from the NASA it could still be much closer to home.
If life on Mars is confirmed (in whatever its shape or size) for many people they will not be able to look at the stars without wondering what or who else is out there. Can we really be so secure that if other forms of life do exist, we are most developed?
Throughout the history human kind, we have looked to the stars. Most creation stories and Myths talk of an off world creator(s) or visitors from other parts of the universe. Maybe part of our looking to the stars is, as the Dogon would believe, looking to the way home. Maybe Mars rather than Sirius is, for human kind the mother world.
We don’t understand why some people can be firmly convinced of the existence of a Creator and messengers – angels and prophets whilst still holding a belief that there is no other life form in the universe.
It would naturally follow that if it is confirmed that Earth is not the only unique place in the whole of the universe to incubate carbon based life forms, then there is a strong possibility of a whole range of other life forms existing, some maybe for billions of years before life here on Earth.
It could also follow that the stories and ancient memories of visitations may not be from just one type of entity or species but could easily be many different ones.
Many diverse religions talk of messengers from the creator have described or depicted them as winged and or with a shining countenance. From the book of Enoch we are lead to believe they are made of fire(seraphim etymology ) or having six wings. Who can say that these “messengers,” wherever they are from are always from the same place?
With our current small understanding of quantum entanglement, we are starting to understand the true potential for traversing space and time. Is it just our over developed sense of self that leads us to conclude that no real development took place in any other part of the universe in the intervening 9 billion years before our planet was born?
It is not hard to imagine what could be achieved in other parts of the universe in 13 billion years compared to what our planet and species have managed in more or less a quarter of that time.
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