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Nuclear annihilation...
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This would have been an
absolutely devastating event.
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...mysterious pyramids...
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There are, apparently, these
unusual structures there.
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and evidence of life
billions of years ago.
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Researchers found
objects that looked
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extremely similar to
microorganisms here on Earth.
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Throughout human history,
the planet Mars has
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captured our imagination.
But is it simply because of its
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striking red color and
prominence in the night sky?
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Or might we have a more profound
extraterrestrial connection?
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NASA knows there is life on Mars,
but for some reason, it does not
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want that information out.
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Millions of people
around the world believe
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we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?
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And if so, might they have
come from the red planet of Mars?
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Cape Canaveral,
Florida, August 20, 1975.
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Ignition, we have liftoff!
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The United States launches
a Titan rocket carrying
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the Viking spacecraft.
Viking is embarking on a
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420-million-mile journey to one
of the most prominent sights in
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the night sky...
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Mars.
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If all goes well, in 11 months,
the unmanned probe will
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touch down on the Martian surface
and search for evidence of life.
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Mainstream scientists say Mars
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is most likely a dead planet
because of its incredible
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temperature swings and high
levels of solar radiation.
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So why is NASA spending a
billion dollars to explore it?
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The night sky is an
astounding thing.
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And to the naked eye, the red
planet could be seen with its
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special color.
After all, it's the
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biggest thing you see up there
past the moon.
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So it's been a special object
of fascination and reverence
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because religious systems
often were associated
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with the planets and the
stars, the sky in general.
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Speculations about what's
there, is intelligent life
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there, are the gods there?
That's gone on for a long time.
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Our dream for
life on Mars probably
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goes back to the ancient times
when we were just doing
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naked eye observation.
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It's the planet that really
stands out, that we now know is
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very close to Earth in terms of
physical conditions.
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Even though Venus is much more
like Earth in size and gravity,
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it's a hellhole in
the solar system.
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But Mars, Mars is out there
within our grasp.
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Among the first to
record this fiery red ball in
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the night sky were ancient
Egyptian astronomers.
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In 1534 BC, they placed Mars
on humanity's first chart of the
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the Senenmut star map.
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Two and a half centuries later,
the Egyptians painted the planet
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Mars on the ceiling of the tomb
of Seti I.
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But while the Egyptians honored
Mars, many other ancient
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cultures feared it because they
associated the red planet with
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death, destruction, and war.
According to some
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anthropologists, this is because
the planet glows red like the
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color of blood spilled on
the battlefield.
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The association of the
red planet with the gods of war
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goes way back.
In ancient Babylon, Mars was
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named after Nergal, the god of
fire, death, and destruction,
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essentially a god of war.
The Greeks named Mars after
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Ares, their god of war.
The Romans, "Mars," that
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is their god of war.
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Rome was a warrior culture,
so this martial emphasis, all
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connected to the red planet, is
accounting for the great armies
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that conquered the known world;
a very successful story and very
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much aligned with
the planet Mars.
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In 42 BC, the Roman forces
of Augustus waged the
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Battle of Philippi against
Marcus Brutus, as Augustus tried
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to avenge the assassination of
his adopted father, Julius Caesar.
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Augustus pledged
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to the god of war, Mars, that if
he won this battle, he would
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build a great temple for him.
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So he won the battle, became
Caesar Augustus, one of the
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greatest of the Roman
emperors, and he created the
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temple of Mars, and whenever
Rome would declare war,
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the temple doors would
be thrown open.
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It was called the temple
to Mars the Avenger.
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Famously, we say the "gates
of" "war" nowadays, right?
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And it was the gates of Mars'
temple that were opened or
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closed depending upon whether
there was a war going on.
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From India to Rome, all
of the ancient societies had
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a reverence for Mars, a
great closeness to Mars.
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Very important in their
pantheon, very important in the
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imagination of the people that
some kind of connection with
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that red planet be maintained.
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But while many ancient
societies felt a bond
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with Mars, most did not identify
it as a planet like Earth.
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The ancients thought planets were
as uninhabitable as the Sun.
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They saw them as
wandering stars.
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In fact, the word "planet" means in
Greek "wandering star," planeta.
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You have the fixed stars, the
constellations, but then you
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have these stars wandering about.
They seem to follow the sun
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because they appear to move
against the background of the
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fixed stars the same
way the Sun does.
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It wasn't until the 17th
and 18th centuries, when
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astronomers finally had
telescopes powerful enough to
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make out features on the surface
of Mars, that we started to
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imagine life on the red
planet as a real possibility.
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By the 1860s, an Italian
astronomer by the
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name of Angelo Secchi thought
he saw straight lines
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crisscrossing the surface of our
little ruddy buddy up there, Mars.
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And he called them "canali."
The idea was picked up by an
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American astronomer by the
name of Percival Lowell.
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And Percival Lowell built his
own observatory down in
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Flagstaff, Arizona.
He spent a lot of time looking
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through a telescope at Mars.
And he wrote books about this.
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He was articulate.
He was clever and he convinced a
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lot of the public and some of
the scientific establishment
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that there really was a
civilization on Mars busy
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digging up their planet because
they needed to irrigate their crops.
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But why has Mars fascinated
humankind throughout
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history? Is it simply due to the
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planet's proximity to Earth and
its striking red color in the
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night sky?
Or is it possible... as ancient
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astronaut theorists contend...
that Mars really was at one time
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inhabited by intelligent life?
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The Cydonia region of Mars,
July 20, 1976.
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An alien spacecraft sent from Earth
touches down on the red planet.
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Nav is green for touchdown.
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After a ten-month journey,
Viking I has reached its destination.
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Touchdown.
We have touchdown.
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To NASA scientists,
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it's a momentous event.
For the first time in its
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history, the United States
has a probe on another planet.
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Viking was the
first spacecraft to actually
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attempt a soft landing on Mars,
and give us an actual feel, a
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taste for what the conditions
were on the surface.
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We looked out at those
pictures of the surface, and
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they looked so much like the
Pacific deserts here,
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like Death Valley.
We all half expected to see
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a miner and his burro come
walking up over the nearest rise.
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Scientists knew that finding definitive
signs of life on Mars was a long shot.
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But when the Viking lander
performed four tests on the
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Martian soil looking for
microbial life, it returned
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surprising and controversial
results.
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Dr. Gil Levin designed one of the tests
that the Viking probe performed.
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Microorganisms breathe just like you
or I or anything else, and then
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they give off carbon dioxide.
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So we got a tiny sample, a
thimbleful of the soil, put into
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a little container.
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It was monitored for seven
days continuously to see
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if there are any bubbles
forming in the tube.
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Surprisingly, the tests came up
positive for life by the
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criteria that had been
approved by NASA.
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However, the result
of another important test... one
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looking for organic matter on
the Martian surface...
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was negative. But
Dr. Levin says the other
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test wasn't nearly as
sensitive as his experiment.
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It needed three million bacteria
in a thimbleful of Martian soil to
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find signs of life, while Dr. Levin's
test only required 30 bacteria.
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So there was a vast
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discrepancy in the sensitivity
of the two experiments,
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and I immediately said, "Well,
you know, they both could be"
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right. We detected
life, but maybe
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there aren't enough bacteria per
unit of soil for the organic
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"analysis instrument to find."
But NASA was very cautious,
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and they opted to say
no organic matter.
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There goes the ball game.
No life.
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Dr. Levin has fought
NASA for almost 40 years
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on whether the Viking probe
found evidence of life on Mars.
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If he was right about the
results of his test, this would
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be the first proof accepted by
mainstream science that life
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exists outside our planet,
but ancient astronaut theorists
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say an even more profound
discovery regarding the red
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planet has been uncovered right
here on Earth... mysterious
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relics that may reveal an
actual visitation of beings
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from Mars.
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Teotihuacan,
Mexico.
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In 2003, archeologists in this
ancient city made a startling
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discovery. A previously
unknown tunnel lies
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45 feet beneath the Temple of
the Feathered Serpent, one of
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the most sacred pyramids
on the continent.
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Working underground,
scientists methodically explored
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the debris-filled tunnel using a
robotic probe with an infrared
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scanner. After some 250 feet,
they reached a side-cave.
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The tail end of the
tunnel, terminus of the
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tunnel, was loaded with, um,
yellowish metallic-looking orbs,
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apparently colored clay.
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The orbs are
very interesting objects.
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I've never seen anything like
them in any kind of other
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archaeological context.
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On the inside, they are clay.
On the outside, they're coated
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with some sort of gold flecks,
so they look like golden balls.
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What purpose these
golden balls served is unknown,
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but some archeologists believe
the cavern in which they were
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found was a place
of sacred ritual.
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Like the clay balls, the walls
were also covered in gold
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flecks, so if the cavern
illuminated it with a
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torch during a ceremony, the
cavern would have shimmered with
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a thousand points of light,
resembling the cosmos.
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These beautiful orbs of yellow
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material strongly suggests that
someone was illustrating planets.
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We do know that the Mayan
calendar is heavily calibrated
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to the orbital parameters of the
planets in our solar system,
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specifically the inner planets.
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The red planet's connection
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to the Mayan calendar is
portrayed in The Dresden Codex.
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This rare book from Mayan
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antiquity describes the
calendar in relation to Mars'
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movements across the sky.
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The Dresden Codex
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is one of four remaining books
that the Maya wrote.
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It is, in many regards,
an astronomical almanac.
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There are many different
sections of the book that talk
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about different astronomical
phenomena.
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One of them is the planet Mars.
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There is an almanac
near the end of the book,
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that breaks up days into ten groups
of 78 days equaling 780 days,
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which is the cyanotic period of
Mars, in other words, the time
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in which it takes Mars to get
back to the same place on the
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horizon from a human
perspective.
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Scholars believe Mars
played an important role in
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the Maya astrology that's
described in The Dresden Codex.
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Above that almanac
is a sky band shown
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with various aspects of
celestial symbols we recognize
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out of hieroglyphs,
and hanging off of it is this
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interesting
dragon-like creature.
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at dragon-like creature is
recognized as the face of Mars.
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Why did the planet Mars
feature so prominently in
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Maya astronomy?
Ancient astronaut theorists
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suggest the answer may be
found in a little-known myth
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surrounding the story of the
feathered serpent god,
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whose temple sits above the
secret tunnel that contains
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the golden orbs.
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In the Mayan tradition,
their great god,
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often pictured as a feathered
serpent, was said to have been
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responsible for the death of the
god of Mars, flayed him to death.
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That's stripping off the skin.
It's a horrific ritual that was
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actually done in other ways in
that culture, but the idea is
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death by that means absorbs
the power of the enemy.
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But the name of their god also
is associated with the comets.
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There are certain drawings
that show comets that
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look like they have feathers
coming off the back.
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The flames are
depicted as feathers.
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And some scholars believe
there's a connection between the
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look of the flying feathered
serpent and these comets.
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Is it possible that the
Mayan myth of the feathered
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serpent describes an actual
event, a cataclysmic comet
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strike that destroyed the
Martian atmosphere?
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After studying the red planet
for decades, mainstream
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scientists admit it's entirely
possible this impact occurred on
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Mars in the distant past.
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If you look at the
Martian landscape, it is
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heavily cratered
compared to Earth.
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Mars is next to the
asteroid belt.
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In fact, in some ways, it
defines the inner edge of the
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asteroid belt.
So Mars is constantly being
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hammered by asteroids
relative to earth.
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You always have the risk,
and of course we've seen
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it here on Earth, of having
large asteroids or comets hit
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the planet and cause
tremendous ecological damage.
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The most famous example of that
is the Chicxulub asteroid that
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may or may not have been the
final nail in the dinosaurs' coffin.
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And certainly that could've
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happened at Mars because
it doesn't have a large moon to
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help shield the planet and
possibly deflect asteroids.
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In his book, Life and
Death on Mars, physicist
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John Brandenburg describes an
impact crater in the Lyot region
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of Mars that's more than 125
miles in diameter.
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He believes this comet strike
may have caused a profound
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disruption to Mars'
planetary system.
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It's a large double-ring crater.
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This happened to a planet
that only gets half the sunlight
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of earth and has one quarter of
the surface area, so this would
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have been an absolutely
devastating planet
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climate-changing event.
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There may have been
a very dramatic event where
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some other leftover piece from
the birth of the solar system,
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some big asteroid, sort of
made a close fly-by, sort of
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a fender-bender collision with
Mars and just stripped off a
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lot of the atmosphere.
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That's a very popular way to look at
what may have gone wrong with Mars.
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But if Mars fostered
life long ago, before
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losing its atmosphere, could
intelligent life, and perhaps
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even civilization, have existed
and even flourished
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on the red planet?
And if so, where would the
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inhabitants have gone
after the cataclysm?
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Some say the answers to these
questions can be found in the
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origin story of Earth's
first civilization.
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Mosul, Iraq,
1849.
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During an excavation of the
Biblical city of Nineveh, a team
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led by the eminent British
archeologist Austen Henry
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Layard, discovers the ruins of
the ancient Assyrian library
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of Ashurbanipal.
Among the priceless relics
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Layard recovered from the
library is a series of cuneiform
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tablets called the En�ma Eli�,
also known as "The Seven Tablets"
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of Creation."
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The tablets are,
essentially, text in
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columnar style, no more than
eight to ten inches tall,
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uh, six to seven inches wide,
which were made of clay.
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And while the clay was just
in the process of setting,
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a stylus would be used by a
trained scribe to etch
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the stories of our
existence on this planet.
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The Seven Tablets of Creation
tell a story about a
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group of gods called the
Anunnaki who came from heaven to
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give birth to the human race,
but some ancient astronaut
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theorists believe the original
translations, completed in the
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19th century by some of the best
scholars of the day, are flawed.
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The professors'
certainly brilliant
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brains had no idea of space
travel, not to speak of
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extraterrestrials.
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So they all, without exception,
made the translations in the
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belief that the stories had to
do with the Almighty God.
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In the old texts, we have, for
example, a word like "heaven."
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So, for example, Abraham
was taken up to heaven
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and brought back to Earth.
So we should change the word
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"heaven" into the word
"space" so it makes sense.
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Using what they say is a
more accurate translation
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of this origin myth, ancient
astronaut theorists believe the
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tablets tell a story about the
Anunnaki coming from space to
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colonize both Mars and Earth.
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According to some
researchers, the Sumerians
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had a number of myths about
Mars, including that the
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Anunnaki used Mars as a supply
base to come here to Earth.
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And subsequently the Anunnaki
then ruled the earth as these
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extraterrestrial god-kings, while
humans began to create the
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many civilizations
on our planet.
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And eventually the Anunnaki left
to go back to their own planet.
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Or did they?
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Is it possible that
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the Anunnaki gods in our ancient
origin stories were actually
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extraterrestrial beings and that
they created the structures that
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some believe they see on Mars? And if
so, did they then journey to Earth?
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We see multiple references
in the cuneiform
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tablets that are allegedly
the records of the Anunnaki.
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That, in fact, they did
originate from Mars,
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that this is not a dead,
isolated, rocky world
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with nothing on it,
but there was life.
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But according to
the modern translation of
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Sumerian and Babylonian origin
myths, a cataclysmic event
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occurred on Mars, an event
that sounds remarkably
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similar to ancient Mesoamerican
myths about a feathered serpent
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flaying the red planet.
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While the Anunnaki were using
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Mars as a supply base
for earth, at some
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point there was a catastrophe.
There was some asteroid or comet
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strike on Mars.
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It ripped the atmosphere
from Mars.
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It changed the climate, and Mars
couldn't be used as a habitable
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space base for the
Anunnaki anymore.
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And so therefore, as we explore
Mars more and more, we may find
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structures, pyramids, ziggurats,
even giant statues
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carved into rock on Mars,
which are really relics of
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the Anunnaki and the time when
they occupied that planet.
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Some have suggested
that Mars may
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have had an atmosphere, and it
got annihilated about
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65 million years ago.
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What some have suggested is
that before this annihilation
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occurred, that that
civilization was able to
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escape to Earth.
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Now, according to this view, we
might, in fact, be the Martians.
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Some scientists say
they've found powerful evidence
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of this lost civilization.
They believe they may have
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discovered a nuclear signature
in the Martian atmosphere that
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matches Earth's after a nuclear test.
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During the height
of the Cold War, we
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were detonating very large
hydrogen bombs in the open air,
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and it produces a lot of
a gas called xenon 129.
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On Mars, we've also found
a lot of xenon 129.
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The only process we know to
produce this xenon 129 is a
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nuclear explosion.
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So apparently, a very large
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nuclear weapon or weapons
was detonated on Mars.
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If we look at the Sumerian
cuneiform tablets there
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are very clear references to a
variety of advanced forms of
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technology.
And it would seem
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pretty clear that if we were
able to get a nuclear bomb,
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then why couldn't a civilization
that was superior to our own
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have developed the same
technology?
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There is a Sumerian
myth concerning the
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planet Mars having to do with
some colossal battle of the
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gods, so there is elements in
mythology that look very much
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like descriptions of
nuclear war.
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Signs of a possible
nuclear blast,
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myths of a comet flaying
the planet...
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and a controversial NASA
experiment that may have
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found life. Could these
really be traces of
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an ancient alien
civilization on Mars?
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And if so, is it possible there
are artificial structures buried
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beneath the surface
even to this day?
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The Ares Vallis region
of Mars, July 4, 1997.
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NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft
lands on the red planet.
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The first probe to reach the
Martian surface since Viking,
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Pathfinder will look
for signs of water.
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Since the Viking missions in the
1970s, mainstream scientists
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have come to the conclusion that
the planet may have once boasted
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oceans full of water and
complex life.
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Billions of years
ago, earlier in the
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history of the solar system,
Mars probably looked, in many
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ways, the way the Earth did.
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It did build up an
atmosphere and oceans.
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The atmosphere probably
would have been equivalent to
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Earth's atmosphere at that time.
Life could well have
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formed in the oceans.
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One day after the
Pathfinder touched down,
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the Sojourner rover began exploring
the Martian surface for signs of
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these ancient life-forms using
an X-ray spectrometer
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and a high-powered camera.
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What they discovered
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was, yes, Mars, in certain
places, looks like the high
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desert on Earth.
And maybe there are areas
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which do seem to be
dried-out riverbeds.
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Maybe there's water
under the surface.
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The thing we've learned
from the rovers that's
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most interesting, I think, is the fact
that Mars once had a wet past.
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And if there was liquid
water on the surface of
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Mars long enough, not just for a
couple of weeks, a couple of
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years, a couple of thousand
years, but for millions of
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years, hundreds of millions of
years, maybe something cooked up
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in that liquid, maybe life.
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As the Pathfinder
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rover snapped photographs of the
Martian surface, it captured
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images of something that
puzzled some scientists...
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a mountain range
they nicknamed The Twin Peaks.
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In his book, Life and Death on
Mars, Dr. John Brandenburg says
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that because Mars has limited
volcanic and tectonic activity,
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it's an open question as to how
these mountains were formed.
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This interesting formation
is the tallest thing
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for hundreds of miles.
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Most of the volcanic activity on Mars
is concentrated in the Tharsis region.
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How many miles away is
that approximately?
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Oh, it's, like 2,000
miles away, to the west.
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All right, so, this
area is not known for any
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volcanoes or anything like that?
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No, no. And because we
now know so much more
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about the climate of Mars than
we did 20 years ago,
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it had an ocean.
It had long periods,
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apparently, of liquid water
flowing on its surface, so all
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of this causes us to look at
everything on Mars with new eyes.
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Mm-hmm.
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And so we have these two
interesting objects.
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They're conjoined.
Not only are they the tallest
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things for 200 miles but
they're linked to each other.
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And this reminds me of what we
have found on planet Earth.
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Now, there's alignment.
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Mm-hmm.
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And what's interesting,
this is the Giza
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Plateau from Egypt.
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And it is near Cairo, which,
name in Arabic derives from the
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name in Arabic... Al-Qahirah,
which means Camp of Mars,
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Place of Mars.
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- Very interesting.
- Fascinating.
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Huh.
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And we also have found
out recently that at one
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time, the Sphinx was
covered with red paint.
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So, imagine we are looking at the
Giza complex and the Sphinx.
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And a million years of
erosion has happened.
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Wouldn't these things all look kind
of rounded and mounded like this?
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It's conjectural.
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Mm-hmm.
Now I notice over here,
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because it's the Giza
Plateau, we have the Sphinx.
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Has something similar been
discovered on Mars, specifically
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around the Twin Peaks area?
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Well, we have
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this strange object which is
nearby, and we see that from
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space and also in the picture.
And look at this.
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At this alignment.
Here is the Sphinx on Earth.
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Here is the pyramid.
Here is this object.
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And there is what looks
like a mound of stuff.
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Who knows if it is
degraded archeology?
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We must look at everything on
Mars now with new eyes.
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In fact, when the Sphinx
was originally found in
468
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modern times, it was buried up
to its neck in rubble
469
00:32:52,022 --> 00:32:54,890
- and had to be excavated.
- So something
470
00:32:54,892 --> 00:32:56,775
similar could be
going on right here.
471
00:32:56,777 --> 00:33:01,396
There could be a much larger
structure buried beneath.
472
00:33:01,398 --> 00:33:05,784
Could the Twin Peaks
be evidence that an
473
00:33:05,786 --> 00:33:10,772
ancient civilization may have
once existed on Mars?
474
00:33:10,774 --> 00:33:16,460
A civilization whose structures
appear to resemble those on Earth?
475
00:33:17,062 --> 00:33:19,447
Ancient astronaut theorists
476
00:33:19,449 --> 00:33:22,617
say yes, and that evidence
for this startling
477
00:33:22,619 --> 00:33:27,122
conclusion has been accumulating
for four decades.
478
00:33:27,224 --> 00:33:30,592
When Viking orbiters
originally started
479
00:33:30,594 --> 00:33:34,763
taking pictures of
the surface of Mars,
480
00:33:34,765 --> 00:33:40,969
they took pictures of very intriguing
features on the plain of Cydonia.
481
00:33:40,971 --> 00:33:43,822
On July 25, 1976,
they took a picture of
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00:33:43,824 --> 00:33:49,978
something that looked for all
the world like a human face.
483
00:33:49,980 --> 00:33:53,481
The whole thing kind of blew up
when a NASA project scientist
484
00:33:53,483 --> 00:33:57,151
named Toby Owen put a magnifying
glass over a frame number named
485
00:33:57,153 --> 00:34:00,455
"35A72," and said,
"Hey, look at this."
486
00:34:00,457 --> 00:34:03,675
NASA actually held a press
conference the next day, where
487
00:34:03,677 --> 00:34:06,678
Owen and Gerald Soffen, who was
the chief Viking project
488
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,997
scientist said, "You know, isn't
it peculiar what tricks of light"
489
00:34:08,999 --> 00:34:11,933
and shadow can do?
The whole thing kind of went
490
00:34:11,935 --> 00:34:14,769
"away a couple hours later when
we took another picture."
491
00:34:14,771 --> 00:34:19,173
The problem with that is that a
couple hours later, the Viking
492
00:34:19,175 --> 00:34:23,195
orbiter was nowhere near Cydonia
and it was dark, so there's no
493
00:34:23,197 --> 00:34:26,615
way that picture could
have ever existed.
494
00:34:26,617 --> 00:34:29,901
Some believe they found
not only a human
495
00:34:29,903 --> 00:34:35,540
face carved into Martian rock,
but also a pyramid, a cliff.
496
00:34:35,542 --> 00:34:40,378
In fact, an entire city buried
by thousands of years of sand
497
00:34:40,380 --> 00:34:44,382
and soil. By the late 1980s, one
498
00:34:44,384 --> 00:34:48,053
researcher had even discovered
what he thought were
499
00:34:48,055 --> 00:34:52,591
mathematical relationships among
the features of Cydonia.
500
00:34:52,593 --> 00:34:55,427
A cartographer and
satellite imagery expert from
501
00:34:55,429 --> 00:34:58,179
the Defense Mapping Agency
named Erol Torun took a look at
502
00:34:58,181 --> 00:35:00,982
the pyramid and concluded that
it was what he called the
503
00:35:00,984 --> 00:35:05,570
Rosetta Stone of Mars.
He found a bunch of mathematical
504
00:35:05,572 --> 00:35:08,857
relationships that pointed to
other objects in the area that
505
00:35:08,859 --> 00:35:10,825
he thought were artificial-
looking.
506
00:35:10,827 --> 00:35:13,895
They included the face, an
object called the cliff, which
507
00:35:13,897 --> 00:35:16,731
is a straight line that goes on
for hundreds of meters, a
508
00:35:16,733 --> 00:35:19,534
rounded mound called the tholos
which appears to have a pathway
509
00:35:19,536 --> 00:35:21,055
that goes up to the top.
510
00:35:22,557 --> 00:35:26,258
More than 20 years after
the Viking mission, NASA
511
00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:32,547
rephotographed the Cydonia region
in 1998 and again in 2001.
512
00:35:32,549 --> 00:35:38,385
The face no longer looked
human, but some scientists
513
00:35:38,387 --> 00:35:43,672
believe that was because of when
and how NASA took the newer pictures.
514
00:35:44,394 --> 00:35:46,978
They shot it from the side.
They shot it at morning.
515
00:35:46,980 --> 00:35:50,031
It was as much a different
viewing geometry and lighting
516
00:35:50,033 --> 00:35:55,202
geometry as possible from
the original pictures.
517
00:35:55,604 --> 00:35:58,573
Based on that evidence,
the face on Mars,
518
00:35:58,575 --> 00:36:03,128
evidence of past climate on
Mars, a past ocean,
519
00:36:03,130 --> 00:36:06,998
I have concluded that Mars
was apparently the home of
520
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,220
a civilization in the past.
521
00:36:11,621 --> 00:36:13,521
Is it possible that
522
00:36:13,522 --> 00:36:17,058
an alien civilization existed
on Mars in the distant past,
523
00:36:17,060 --> 00:36:20,729
and built the structures that
recent Martian probes have
524
00:36:20,731 --> 00:36:26,467
photographed?
If so, does the government know
525
00:36:26,469 --> 00:36:29,604
more than it's telling us
about life and death
526
00:36:29,606 --> 00:36:32,189
on the red planet?
527
00:36:35,380 --> 00:36:43,380
Washington, D.C.,
August 7, 1996.
528
00:36:44,264 --> 00:36:48,433
On the South Lawn of the White
House, 30 years after NASA
529
00:36:48,435 --> 00:36:52,520
announced the Viking mission had
not found evidence of life on
530
00:36:52,522 --> 00:36:56,157
Mars, President Bill Clinton
held an historic press
531
00:36:56,159 --> 00:36:59,145
conference to announce some
momentous news:
532
00:37:00,447 --> 00:37:06,318
microbial life may exist
on the red planet after all.
533
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,537
Scientists had found what they
believed to be fossilized
534
00:37:09,539 --> 00:37:13,591
remains on a Martian meteorite
that crashed to Earth
535
00:37:13,593 --> 00:37:14,777
12,000 years ago.
536
00:37:15,679 --> 00:37:21,466
It must be confirmed
by other scientists,
537
00:37:21,468 --> 00:37:25,637
but clearly the fact that
something of this magnitude
538
00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:30,475
is being explored is another
vindication of America's space
539
00:37:30,477 --> 00:37:33,945
program and our continuing
support for it, even in these
540
00:37:33,947 --> 00:37:34,999
tough financial times.
541
00:37:35,101 --> 00:37:39,517
There was enormous
excitement over this discovery.
542
00:37:39,519 --> 00:37:43,187
Based on the chemical
composition of the meteorite,
543
00:37:43,189 --> 00:37:46,958
we could tell that
it was from Mars.
544
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:51,296
Inside the rock, researchers
found different chemicals and,
545
00:37:51,298 --> 00:37:56,367
in particular, different
physical shapes of objects that
546
00:37:56,369 --> 00:38:02,039
looked extremely similar to
microorganisms here on Earth.
547
00:38:02,041 --> 00:38:07,062
Soon after the president's
press conference,
548
00:38:07,064 --> 00:38:12,267
scientists began to backpedal on
whether the meteorite actually
549
00:38:12,269 --> 00:38:16,053
showed signs of life.
They said the original team of
550
00:38:16,055 --> 00:38:18,690
experts may have been wrong.
551
00:38:18,692 --> 00:38:22,226
The image certainly
looks like some kind of
552
00:38:22,228 --> 00:38:26,531
a microorganism, but
the opponents said the
553
00:38:26,533 --> 00:38:34,172
microorganism remains are too small
to have DNA to be inside it.
554
00:38:34,174 --> 00:38:37,926
And therefore, it
can't be a fossil.
555
00:38:37,928 --> 00:38:44,916
Since then, microorganisms have
been found that small, which
556
00:38:44,918 --> 00:38:51,589
have DNA in them,
but it has not been resolved.
557
00:38:51,591 --> 00:38:56,227
But given the
controversy surrounding the
558
00:38:56,229 --> 00:38:59,447
possibility that life may have
been discovered on Mars,
559
00:38:59,449 --> 00:39:04,402
starting with the Viking mission
of the 1970s and continuing to
560
00:39:04,404 --> 00:39:07,438
- the present day...
- Liftoff.
561
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,992
some scientists say
NASA almost seems to be
562
00:39:10,994 --> 00:39:16,047
avoiding the issue.
The space agency has never
563
00:39:16,049 --> 00:39:20,168
retried Gil Levin's test for
signs of life on the red planet.
564
00:39:24,170 --> 00:39:26,224
It is very puzzling
565
00:39:26,226 --> 00:39:31,980
as to why NASA has refused to
send life detection experiments
566
00:39:31,982 --> 00:39:37,152
back to Mars.
My experiment discovered
567
00:39:37,154 --> 00:39:41,523
the most remarkable thing
yet known about Mars.
568
00:39:41,525 --> 00:39:44,976
That there is something highly
reactive in the soil, chemical
569
00:39:44,978 --> 00:39:49,080
or biological. But we
really should find out
570
00:39:49,082 --> 00:39:52,200
what it is. It is
startling that NASA has
571
00:39:52,202 --> 00:39:58,957
made no attempt to
determine that issue.
572
00:39:58,959 --> 00:40:06,381
I truly think NASA knows
there is life on Mars,
573
00:40:06,383 --> 00:40:09,667
but for some reason
unbeknownst to me, it does not
574
00:40:09,669 --> 00:40:13,471
want that information out.
575
00:40:13,473 --> 00:40:21,473
Has NASA found definitive
signs of life on Mars
576
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:27,151
that they're intentionally
keeping from the public?
577
00:40:27,153 --> 00:40:31,239
And if so, have they found
evidence that an advanced
578
00:40:31,241 --> 00:40:34,659
civilization once lived
on the red planet?
579
00:40:34,661 --> 00:40:39,581
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe they have, and as
580
00:40:39,583 --> 00:40:44,002
evidence, point to a report
commissioned by NASA in 1960...
581
00:40:44,004 --> 00:40:50,508
that offers advice for how to
reveal the news if the American
582
00:40:50,510 --> 00:40:56,047
space program should ever find
proof of extraterrestrial life.
583
00:40:56,049 --> 00:41:00,551
The so-called Brookings
Report essentially
584
00:41:00,553 --> 00:41:04,555
said that in your travels
throughout the solar system,
585
00:41:04,557 --> 00:41:07,575
there is a distinct possibility
that you will discover
586
00:41:07,577 --> 00:41:10,328
artifacts, that you will
actually discover evidence
587
00:41:10,330 --> 00:41:16,417
of an ancient alien presence on
Venus, on the moon or on Mars.
588
00:41:16,419 --> 00:41:20,672
And the implications of such an
announcement, if it were made,
589
00:41:20,674 --> 00:41:25,076
would be potentially devastating
to the human race.
590
00:41:25,078 --> 00:41:28,929
It could be catastrophic. In fact,
it used the word "disintegrate."
591
00:41:29,231 --> 00:41:32,016
I would imagine that
592
00:41:32,018 --> 00:41:36,054
it would be something that
would be kept secret for awhile.
593
00:41:36,056 --> 00:41:39,107
I don't think it's a bunch of
men sitting in a room and
594
00:41:39,109 --> 00:41:42,110
smoking cigarettes and saying
we're gonna keep this secret.
595
00:41:42,112 --> 00:41:45,313
But it is a responsibility,
and I think that they would
596
00:41:45,315 --> 00:41:48,650
certainly be very, very
careful as to how to let
597
00:41:48,652 --> 00:41:51,035
out this knowledge.
598
00:41:56,608 --> 00:42:00,411
Is it possible that not
just microbial life, but
599
00:42:00,413 --> 00:42:05,633
also intelligent beings, once
called the red planet their
600
00:42:05,635 --> 00:42:09,003
home? And if so,
what would that mean
601
00:42:09,005 --> 00:42:13,141
for the existence of life
elsewhere in the cosmos?
602
00:42:15,511 --> 00:42:18,096
If life used to exist
on Mars, particularly if
603
00:42:18,098 --> 00:42:22,684
it formed independently of Earth
life, life in the universe
604
00:42:22,686 --> 00:42:24,635
is all over the place.
605
00:42:27,156 --> 00:42:31,326
That means that of
the billions of planets
606
00:42:31,328 --> 00:42:36,080
discovered now
similar to Earth,
607
00:42:36,082 --> 00:42:38,666
through our universe,
many of them would have
608
00:42:38,668 --> 00:42:44,038
life on them.
And if there is life different
609
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:48,092
from life on Earth that has
evolved, there would be every
610
00:42:48,094 --> 00:42:52,329
reason to suspect such evolution
would have gone on on countless
611
00:42:52,331 --> 00:42:56,333
other Earths.
And that there would be
612
00:42:56,335 --> 00:42:59,670
intelligent life
out there as well.
613
00:43:02,191 --> 00:43:04,525
We want there
to be life on Mars.
614
00:43:04,527 --> 00:43:06,978
We want there to be life
somewhere beyond here.
615
00:43:06,980 --> 00:43:10,281
We want that transcendent
connection to the heavens.
616
00:43:10,283 --> 00:43:13,534
We don't want it to be invaders,
but we don't want to be alone
617
00:43:13,536 --> 00:43:14,920
in the universe.
618
00:43:16,022 --> 00:43:22,710
Are tales of life
on Mars, found in cultures
619
00:43:22,712 --> 00:43:28,249
across the world,
simply mythology?
620
00:43:28,251 --> 00:43:32,136
Or might Martians really have
visited Earth in the distant
621
00:43:32,138 --> 00:43:36,391
past, as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
622
00:43:36,393 --> 00:43:41,095
If so, could there be evidence
waiting to be discovered on the
623
00:43:41,097 --> 00:43:42,364
red planet?
624
00:43:43,566 --> 00:43:47,485
Perhaps with further missions to
Mars we'll find that not only
625
00:43:47,487 --> 00:43:55,487
was it home to alien beings thousands
of years ago, but it still is today.
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00:43:56,025 --> 00:43:58,991
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