MICHAEL ANGELO BOLOR JULY 201

CUL ANTHRO SEC1 PROF.DUBLIN

RED MARS, A NEW HOME FOR: EARTHLING IMPOSSIBLE

It’s been centuries since human last gave Mars a moment’s peace. From the first time we noticed it
hanging in the sky — closer than other worlds, brighter than other worlds, unsettlingly redder than
other worlds — we have alternately loved it, feared it and hung our hopes for life in the lonely cosmos
on it. That romance is as passionate as ever. There are currently eight active spacecraft orbiting or on
the surface of Mars — two of them rovers.

The big question — whether there was or is life on the Red Planet.

My answer is no, because Mars still has an atmosphere and it has temperatures that allow it to maintain
liquid water on the surface for a little while each year. But Mars does not have an ozone layer and it’s
too small to have a magnetic field. The lack of ozone means that ultraviolet energy can penetrate the
atmosphere and bust up water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen bubbles up to the
top of the remaining atmosphere and the lack of a magnetic field means that the solar wind can stream
past and strip the hydrogen away.

We cannot imagine a more exciting, more life-affirming, more amazing adventure than trying to
establish a colony on Mars, trying to place human footprints on another planet for the first time.
 MICHAEL ANGELO BOLOR JULY 201

CUL ANTHRO SEC1 PROF.DUBLIN

HUMANS AND EXTRATERRESTIAL LIVING TOGETHER IN

HARMONY: FACT

One of humanity’s most pressing questions is, “Are we alone in the universe?
About two decades ago, it was quite uncertain whether stars other than our own sun even hosted their
own planets. However, according to Nasa, the latest count of confirmed exoplanets stands at around
3,500 – and at least six of them are potential Earths. This count will definitely go up and many
researchers believe that the advancement of technology will enable humans to discover some form of
life on another planet in the coming years.

In Roswell,Mexico 1947 there is a flying object crashed, Some observers reported seeing what appeared
to be a flying disc, but the U.S. military released a statement to the press assuring the public that it was
a weather balloon that crashed to Earth in early July. But William Brazel, a supervisor on the grounds
where an object crashed outside of Roswell, said he gathered up the debris from the crash, which had
crashed in June, not early July as the press statement had said.
There IS Evidence of Some Kind of Wreckage

The wreckage that Brazel the supervisor collected was about 5 pounds total, and included rubber; sticks;
tough, glossy paper with a few letters printed on it; lightweight metals; fiber-optic cables; and tape. In
1947, many of these materials didn’t look like anything anyone had ever seen before. When Brazel
called the town sheriff, Air Force personnel arrived to gather the materials. Some people in the area
believed that the wreckage was from an alien spacecraft and that alien bodies were removed from the
site to be studied, either at Area 51 in Nevada or in Roswell.