As Maniacs, our natural instinct is to be inquisitive, open-minded and most of all visionary. It’s in our genes. What’s about to follow is a pretty perfect way for us to fulfill those tendencies.
A Geochemist from The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology, Professor Steven Benner has been compiling evidence of late that suggests an element believed to be crucial to the origin of life would only have been available on the surface of Mars. Theses ‘seeds’ of life seemingly would have arrived on Earth courtesy of meteorites blasted off Mars by impacts or even volcanic eruptions.
“The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Martians; that life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock.” says Prof Benner."It’s lucky that we ended up here nevertheless, as certainly Earth has been the better of the two planets for sustaining life. If our hypothetical Martian ancestors had remained on Mars, there might not have been a story to tell.“
Molybdenum is the element in question, believed to be a catalyst that helped organic molecules develop into the first living things.
"This form of molybdenum couldn’t have been available on Earth at the time life first began, because three billion years ago the surface of the Earth had very little oxygen, but Mars did.
"It’s yet another piece of evidence which makes it more likely life came to Earth on a Martian meteorite, rather than starting on this planet.”
Another said theory which makes it hard for scientists of Benner’s profession to believe that life started on early Earth is that it would have been covered in water.
