A respected physicist and author, John Brandenberg, has claimed that intelligent life once flourished on Mars – but was annihilated by a nuclear attack so intense it left the planet cold and lifeless.
The author has urged that a human mission to the planet be mounted immediately – in case we are in danger from the attackers who ‘killed’ Mars.
Brandenberg said that many of the nuclear isotopes in Mars’s atmosphere ‘resemble those from hydrogen bombs on Earth’ and hypotheses in a new book, ‘Death on Mars’, that a humanoid race once lived there but was wiped out.
‘This Martian civilization apparently perished due to a planet-wide catastrophe of unknown origin,’ he writes, citing craters visible on the surface near the Curiosity Rover. ‘Was it a massive nuclear attack?’
Many physicists believe that an event such as an asteroid strike may have robbed Mars of its magnetic field, and thus its atmosphere, in the distant past – but Brandenberg believes that the planet may have been killed by another civilisation or even a rogue artificial intelligence.
He also warns that we could be next.
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Brandenberg suggests that the reason we have never heard any signals from intelligent civilisations – known as the Fermi Paradox – is that they are being wiped out. He warned that Earth may be on the cusp of being ‘noticed’ – and exterminated by the same forces.
‘The Astronomer Edward Harrison suggested one major factor cutting short the lifetime of civilizations was older predatory civilizations who would wipe out young civilizations once they became detectable through radio broadcasts. The motivation for such genocidal actions would be to avoid later competition,’ he writes.
‘It is possible that our interstellar neighborhood contains forces hostile to young, noisy, civilizations such as ourselves. Such hostile forces could range from things as alien as AI (Artificial Intelligence) ‘with a grudge’ against flesh and blood.’
The most dangerous thing to intelligent life, Brandenberg suggests, may be ‘other intelligent life’ – but learning this may be an opportunity to survive an attack from whatever force destroyed Mars.
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‘The discovery of dead civilization on Mars, whose end was apparently catastrophic and due to unknown causes, reinforces our understanding that the cosmos can be a dangerous place and requires a vigorous response from the human race, to reduce the probability that we will perish the same way.
‘The most likely cause of the Cydonian demise, the large asteroid impact from the Lyot impact basin, causing collapse of a Mars greenhouse system, is a hazard of the cosmos that we were aware of.
‘However, the second possible catastrophe, a pair of large and anomalous nuclear events, centered apparently near Cydonia and also near Galaxias, and leaving no craters, is much more difficult to understand. For this reason we must maximize our knowledge of what transpired on Mars, and this requires an international human mission.’
Nigel Watson, author of the Haynes UFO Investigations Manual, says, ‘John Brandenberg is not the first person to suggest that Mars was ‘murdered’ by nuclear explosions. Writers who have promoted the idea that ancient astronauts visited and lived on the Earth thousands of years ago, claim that sacred texts like the Bible recount stories of nuclear explosions.
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‘They point to accounts like this in Genesis, ‘the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven’. Fragments of melted glass in the deserts of Libya are also thought to be evidence of nuclear warfare or accidents 28million years ago. They also think that the legendary civilisation of Atlantis was destroyed by atomic warfare.
‘In the wilder fringes of speculation, it is believed that there was a planet called Maldek that orbited between Mars and Jupiter. Its population became selfish, lazy and lusted for power.
The consequence was, according to the Aetherius Society:
‘They exploded a hydrogen bomb and completely destroyed the planet Maldek and murdered the whole populace in one blinding flash of searing flame. All that is now left of that beautiful planet is the asteroid belt.’
‘Although Brandenburg’s theory is on more solid ground, it still amounts to speculation based on our present day awareness of the power of nuclear weapons and our fear of its misuse. It is a warning that we could do the same to our own planet, and underlines the belief of many scientiststhat we have not detected intelligent life elsewhere in the universe because at some point civilisations will become extinct either through catastrophe or self-destruction.’
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