Mars Used to Be Inhabited by Intelligent Life and May Still Be

We now know that Mars used to have liquid water on its surface—the landscape of the whole planet has been sculpted by flowing water at some point in its past. If you have a look for “Mars anomalies” on any Internet search engine you will see odd things strewn about its surface spotted by the rovers that still trundle over its surface gathering data. Some of the things look spookily like building materials, such as bricks, etc. Satellite imagery has shown other strange things that look like structured areas and straight lines that could be ancient ruins.

Just imagine what it’s like there for a minute—if these things are ruins of ancient civilisations, things mist be extremely spooky there… Wind whipping up red dust swirling around barely exposed ancient ruins as the sun sets majestically over a freezing cold Martian mountain, plunging the quiet planet into pitch darkness with only the sound of breeze sprinkling dust over lonely rocks.

Mars could have been the home to intelligent life. Perhaps it could have experienced its “Goldilocks” era many thousands—maybe millions—of years before the Earth? There is a volcano on Mars called Olympus Mons that is bigger than any other known in the whole of the solar system—it’s actually much bigger than Mount Everest! Imagine if that bad boy went off!? It could easily have destroyed any livable atmosphere and kick-started the planet’s death. There are seemingly hundreds of thousands of cavelike areas across the surface of Mars and a certain period of its year the atmosphere is full of Methane gas—a sure sign of life. The life could be bacteria that can thrive in seemingly inhospitable areas under the surface of Mars—or, could the intelligent life whom once inhabited the surface have colonized beneath the surface, away from the deadly solar winds and plummeting temperatures?

Whatever played a part in the demise of the planet was perhaps predicted by the civilisations and some survived under the surface. There could be networks of cave systems and ecosystems unimaginable to us—the inhabitants could all have evolved heightened senses to survive in the darkness. There’s a lot to think about there anyway—what do you guys think?