Meanwhile, on Mars....

Everything we look at is still broken into pieces....like a cosmic rock-crusher was at work. And three-and-a-half or four billion years ago, it was - very briefly. But long enough to destroy a formerly-habitable planet in the outer region of our ecosphere around our sun, or 'Sol' as NASA prefers to call it.  Whatever you call it, it's a self-contained thermonuclear reactor approaching its midlife crisis...

Here's another example of what I mean about a 'rock-crusher' - everywhere we look, close-up or far away, we're seeing material that's been broken. There aren't any rounded stones, polished that way by glacial actions, as on Earth. It is all showing evidence of some massive destructive force. And we know why.

Originally, perhaps, Mars was intended to be this solar system's Intelligent Planet, with a nicely developed civilization, temperate climate, pleasant vacation spots, and an active scientific community - and Earth was to be the primitive relative, with those massive dinosaurs, and weird flappy flying creatures, and animals. Lots of animals, amongst which the most evolved would be the apes and horny monkeys.

Then, along came that massive meteoroid from deep space, striking Mars near its beltline, and essentially destroying its environment. Away went its outer skin of land masses and oceans, its atmosphere, and even its magnetic fields, which disappeared because of the severe impact. Severe impacts tend to unmagnetize things. And after the smoke cleared, what we see now was pretty-much it.

That meant that if this solar system was to have any intelligent life at all, it would have to develop from those hairy-assed apes and horny monkeys on that other inner planet next to Mars - the one called Earth. And sure enough, over time, a lot of it, that's more or less what happened. We're still working on the 'intelligence' part of the picture, but at least we weren't destroyed from the inside out, like Mars. 

And now for a little digression.....yesterday, I was speculating about where does the material go which gets sucked into black holes. So let's take another look at what we call our physical universe...and all of it that we can see involves these bright 'stars' or 'suns' at the center of planetary systems clumped together into huge conglomerations we call 'galaxies'. Maybe someone else in another dimension might call them 'cells' perhaps. But whatever, all these bright objects are basically thermonuclear reactors, emitting radiation. X-rays, Gamma Rays, 
Photons, and let's not forget all those cute little subatomic particles that can whiz right through you without you even knowing it, because they're so small they can fly right through between whatever else is there. You wanted an 'alternate universe'? Try that one.

So all these bright objects are emitting radiation. That means it's all radioactive. Radioactivity always involves radioactive decay. Particles - components - are emitted or cast off from their sources. Where do they go? In our case, with our black holes at the centers of all these galaxies, possibly into those black holes and out of our sphere of influence, to be dissipated in  someone else's atmosphere. I don't have all the nuts and bolts to hold this theory together just yet, but I'm working on it....so stay tuned. Meanwhile, remember there's a reason for everything. We only have to find it. So let's keep looking.