If
Intelligent Life Ever Existed on Mars
What if Martians created a
civilization, or even Venusians that let Venus thermal power run
amok, that was consumed by wild, voracious nanobots evolved from a
designer's replication program?
Building
nanobots that reproduced themselves in order to construct complete
urban infrastructures on unpopulated planets would have a potential
for getting out of control. Nanobots with the power to create could
be made with flaws that permit them to destroy. What if Mars once had
beautiful cities and bicycle paths in post-modern aesthetic form that
were reduced to dust overnight in a swarm of over-exuberant
nano-consumerism leaving nothing behind but a world devoid life or
stick frame architecture?
Advanced
civilizations could create traps on attractive planets seeding them
with nanobots waiting like ticks or chiggers to attach themselves to
visiting biological life forms or their vehicles and return to
consume the origin planet of prey.
So
often one hears space-Utopians speak about how life may be
discovered, or that no one has ever gone before, and that everything
will change for humanity of they find life elsewhere; so so it does
as well when a wolf steps inside a box or snap trap.
Instead
of a Pee Wee Herman vs. Bambi and the Zombies on Mars fantasy sports
approach, gambling with skill it might be better to send astronauts
to Mars and not plan to return them. They should be supported by
machines in improving caves on mars and in making glass to allow
thick, safe greenhouse space.
Transport
should be all-electric with ground power lines laid around a
spiderweb by self-driving vehicles that can draw power from a prime
power source. Building up the Martian permanent infrastructure to
support water and food production for locals could be done before
during and after the first arrivals. They should be hardy engineering
types with a few scientists, and fewer than 20 in number for the
first decade.
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