Nature's Tale - Map On Mars

By Sean Bechtold

The Curiosity rover we sent to Mars found a map on the surface (depicted on the cover). This proves other civilizations have developed on other planets, and allows for much speculation concerning what may have become of the peoples who once lived on Mars considering they had plenty of time to reach Earth, colonize here, and branch out to other destinations like Alpha Centauri.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781794872172

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Nature's Tale - Map On Mars

Dedication

With many thanks to all of the scientists who've sent probes to Mars. I might be halfway decent at seeing things that escape other people's notice, at least in certain areas, but I'd have never been able to consider these concepts if not for the efforts of thousands. Quite honestly, I've been hoping to see a map of Mars for my entire adult life, so I extend to each and every one of these fine engineers my most heartfelt appreciation as well as much deserved proper credit for their contributions. My apologies if this doesn't suffice. Everyone who worked on the Mars rover called Curiosity are the people who found the map that's etched into a rock on the surface of Mars, located on the southern-most large island in the archipelago that once spread throughout the east when the planet was still wet. I merely identified what it is.

Act II

Map on Mars

Dossier

STARRING - Martian Africa

THE SHOWSTOPPER - Calamity

CO-STARRING - Martian Oceans

FEATURING - Map on Mars

SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE - Artifacts

AND INTRODUCING - Martian Islands

Map on Mars

So much has already been said about Mars. Almost all of it false, of course, like the rumors of little green men living there. That really shouldn't be surprising though considering the planet was named after a fictional character, the Roman god of war.

We've always had a suspicion, some kind of premonition, or at least a fantasy that there is or once was life on our red neighbor. Our fictional accounts intensified once Giovanni Shiaperelli thought he noticed canali on Mars through a telescope, and Sir Percival Lowell expanded on his observations to include a theory that canals were there to redirect water, like aqueducts. Whether or not these were good instincts, before our curiosity was peaked, our expectations have been widespread. In fact, near the beginning of the twentieth century, when War of the Worlds was broadcast across America, a radio program about alleged invaders from Mars caused a widespread panic and some people were so distraught at the prospect of being enslaved by a superior race that they actually committed suicide without bothering to get verification of whether there was some kind of mass invasion going on or if, as they were repeatedly told during the radio program, they were merely listening to a work of fiction. You're reading fiction right now, by the way... just to be clear since a fair estimate would suggest the following observations would be lucky to achieve a 5% accuracy rate from the distance of so many millions of kilometers.

Currently, we have plans to go to Mars and turn it into an inhabitable environment. Greedy capitalists wish to do this so they can exploit the resources of another planet. Realists think we might need to expand our living space because overpopulation is truly out of control. Before anyone gets enamored with the possibility of generating life there, regardless of the motivation, we need to get one thing straight. Here's the only fact that really matters about Mars at this point in time - it's a tomb. Life there died. All of it! The record of its history is encased in fossils and petrified plants. Wanting to go there and generate an atmosphere and encourage rapid growth across the surface shows absolutely no respect for everything that once lived on Mars. As it is, Mars is a perfect time capsule. Undisturbed for the moment, by us at least, pristine, with the most significant clues available to us for gaining a greater understanding of how life evolved in this Solar System. Here on Earth we have ominous warnings about disturbing sacred burial grounds that include hexes and curses. Every pyramid in Egypt is said to have its own set of tragic retribution for anyone who enters a chamber with a sarcophagus in it, particularly if they're the first to go into it. Graveyards are purported to be haunted in many places, and grave robbers are looked down upon for disrespecting our honored dead.

The connection between the lies and disrespect through all of this fantasizing is our tendency to be hypocrites whenever it's convenient. How many cultures have we wiped out - seriously, annihilated from human history -