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Unless we can, somehow, get to Warp 1

Check out Habitable Planets for Man by Asimov and Dole. It was published in 1964, but the science is still valid.

What if humans originally came from Mars and we destroyed our mother planet through war and depleting its resources and somehow we colonized Earth, only to repeat the same mistake on Earth that we did on Mars because we forget where we came from?



Like in that Twilight Zone episode "Third Planet From the Sun"

Many flakes on U tube suggest that.

But its clear to me that we evolved here on the earth. Mammals are here, primates are here, and all of our closest evolutionary cousins like the African apes are all here on earth. So we must have evolved here on earth.

However...if you push the calender back further...wayyyy further. then something like what you're saying is actually plausible.

Billions of years ago life, in the form of microbial bacteria, may have appeared on Mars when earth was still uninhabitable , back in the infancy of the solar system.

At some point a martian volcano, or a meteor strike on mars, sent a boulder with Martian bacteria into space, and it might have landed here on earth at the right moment in geological time to seed the earth with these Martian microbian invaders. Life then took hold proliferated and diversified on earth. At the same time conditions went crappy on mars. Life dies out on mars while bacteria become, first eukariots (like paramecium), and then become multicellular plants and animals (like sponges, dinos, and humans).

So It actually cant be ruled out that life itself could have started on mars, spread to earth, and then died out on Mars. But that was billions of years before anything resembling even a jellyfish evolved, much less man ever evolved, much less any humanlike civilization existed.

Stumbled upon this video that relates to the subject of the original post. A pretty good overview.

Don't get too excited. We can colonise Mars in the same way we colonised Antarctica, by which I mean a few hundred researchers dependant on outside supplies. So don't expect millions of people living there.