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Martian Rocks
Let’s start with a rock. A Mars rock found in Antarctica, in 1984. ALH84001,0. Yes, it has a alphanumeric nomenclature. Would a rock by any other name still be a rock? I would have just called it a rock, but maybe in the field I would have to name it, as a I record geographic discovery location. Found it in the snow: Frosty. I probably wouldn’t have said, Martian rock. Seriously, I pick up rocks all the time, and I would have never said- oh, this is from Mars. More specifically, this Martian rock sat in the snow for about 13,000 years, per science. It was in space for about 17 million years, after being blasted off Mars by something, per science. Could nuclear war perhaps be ‘something?’ (Oh, that’s how panspermia works. Life evolves to building nuclear bombs, we blow ourselves up, and the pieces rain down on other planets…) They can even tell me it came from Eos Chasma. All of this reasonably, precise knowing, but they can’t tell me there’s life on Mars? Eon Chasma is pretty precise, right? We know enough about all of Mars to say a random sample, not connected to Mars in 17 million years, came from one place?
I am not the only one saying there was life on Mars. I am not the only one saying there is still life on Mars. There are some scientist saying this.
I am also not saying I know more or less than anyone else in science. I am not…
