“The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the oceans hadn’t been reusable.”
– Elon Musk
Within 20 years, we are expecting to send the first colonizers to the Red Planet. Astronauts will brave the six-month journey to become the first extraterrestrials visitors to Mars–where they are expected to live and die there, never to return to Earth. But why have we always had a strange fascination with this particular planet? The latest NASA research has revealed that not only is there evidence of liquid water on the planet, but that life on Earth was most likely seeded on Mars. Ancient Astronaut Theorists even suggest that the development of life on Earth may have similarities to how scientists are currently planning to keep humans alive on the red planet. Could extraterrestrials from Mars have colonized Earth in our remote past? Could our voyage to Mars not only unlock the mysteries of our ancient, extraterrestrial origins–but also be the key to the long-term survival of the human species? [3]
| Introduction | Alien Artifacts |
| Terraforming | Secret Space Program |
| From Mars to Earth | Colonization |
| Weapons of Mass Destruction |
CONTRIBUTORS
(in order of appearance)
INTRODUCTION [3a]
| “Do I believe that there is or was life on Mars? Yes, I’m absolutely certain of it.”
– Paul Davies, Ph.D. |
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“There are a lot of different objects on Mars that look exactly like sculptures that human beings make.” – Michael Bara (Author, The Choice), |
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“We have to ask ourselves, what civilization built this? And what happened to them?” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
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“There’s no natural phenomenon that can account for this nuclear data. That is a weapon signature.” – John Brandenburg, Ph.D. |
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“Going to Mars, it’s something we know somewhere in the back of our brains that we have to do or we die.” – Stephen Petranek (Author, How We’ll Live on Mars) |
Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has credited its origins to gods and other visitors from the stars. What if it were true? Did extraterrestrial beings really help to shape our history? And if so, might we find the truth when humans land on Mars?
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