Today's 'Question Everything'....

Just a reminder: I have 82 years experience asking stupid questions, so here's today's: "How did a meteorite 3.9 billions of years old from Mars get launched toward Earth?" Please let me rephrase that. "How did we end up with a chunk of Mars from 3.9 billion years ago, unless there was some major event back then which caused a fragment or fragments of Mars to be projected into space with enough force or energy to place them into an intercept path with Earth's orbit?"

Is the scientific community of the opinion that the public at large can't handle the truth about what may really have happened back then? Apparently, the answer to that one would be "Yes!". We're now hearing or reading stories about how the planet Mars has dried out over a much longer period than previously thought. A longer period than who previously thought? Not me.

We're told its former liquid water was broken down by sunlight's UV rays into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen, and that the hydrogen has been constantly evaporating into space practically forever, but we aren't told exactly why this should happen to Mars but not here. We know that Mars has no magnetic field now, but that it once did, because there's been evidence of that discovered. Just an aside here: If you whack a magnet with a hammer, or blast it with a bullet, you can demagnetize it. Mostly, anyway. The same could probably happen to a planet that got punched near its beltline by a pluto-sized foreign meteoroid that punctured its crust.

And as long as I'm asking stupid questions, why is one hemisphere of Mars at a different elevation than its other hemisphere, as if it got split in two and quickly reunited before its magma cooled too much? And has that got anything to do with that huge rift or canyon or old crack in its crust about 5,000 Km long and running parallel to its equator and varying in width from just a few kilometers to as much as 145, and of unknown depth? OK, I can't count to "one" - I've asked more than one question; but I've got a million of them! And there's a lot more to the Mars story than we're being told. And that's OK. But try to dazzle me with brilliance rather than baffle me with bullshit.