What's Inside Mars?

 https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-just-looked-inside-mars-heres-what-they-found/#intcid=_wired-homepage-right-rail_4a8d8158-46f5-429e-b9eb-dbecd9f3a4f7_popular4-1

Even though Mars is a small solid planet, it has so much big potential.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mars/overview

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Internal_structure , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kca3Y8XUK1c

https://www.cnet.com/news/in-historic-first-nasa-spacecraft-maps-what-lurks-below-surface-of-mars/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mars-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Holes

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57935742

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars#Future

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-mars-scientist-braun-b1879535.html

https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars

https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/mars

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mars

The Changing Face of Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaSaVanPysA JPL

Looking for Life on Mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhtw7Dpntb4 NOVA  PBS

Mars Making the New Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_50N5QoQoc4 , https://www.youtube.com/c/spaceandastronomy/videos

Elon Musk reveals stunning video that shows Starship's mission to Mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyWE2bA4h6A CNET

SpaceX Starship Animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Oox2w5sMcA , https://www.youtube.com/c/SpaceX/videos , https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars

In 1953 a scientist predicted a man titled 'Elon' would lead humans to Mars and crown himself 'Martian Emperor' https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-science-fiction-nasa-colonize-colony-planets-solar-system-2021-6

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-mars-scientist-braun-b1879535.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mars_Project 1952 & 1953. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars#Wernher_von_Braun_proposal_(1947_through_1950s)

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/terraform-mars-elon-musk-inspiration4

https://twitter.com/elonmusk

EM is very serious about the eventual transforming of Mars into an inhabited world. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/header_photo

At this point some might say that it's like EM was destined to do this.

https://historyofyesterday.com/70-year-old-book-mentions-elon-musk-leading-humanity-to-mars-39688cfd9d78

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars#SpaceX_Mars_transportation_infrastructure_(2016-present)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_Colonization_Program

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a34738932/elon-musk-glass-domes-terraforming-mars/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=SpaceX

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Elon+Musk

Was there ever any life on Mars?

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14456883/Former-CIA-agent-claims-life-Mars-evidence-prove-it.html

Any official proof and announcement that life had existed on another planet would get people thinking.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a61729352/perseverance-mars-microbial-life/

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/we-finally-know-where-to-look-for-life-on-mars

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-says-it-found-possible-signs-life-mars-there-are-lot-maybes

Any official declaration that intelligent life exists on other planets would get people really talking.

https://www.space.com/nasa-may-have-unknowingly-found-and-killed-alien-life-on-mars-50-years-ago-scientist-claims

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/could-life-exist-below-mars-ice-nasa-study-proposes-possibilities/

https://science.nasa.gov/blog/was-there-life-on-mars/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/life-on-mars-may-have-been-its-own-worst-enemy

Anomalies on Mars...

There is a paranormal aspect to the planet Mars.
http://www.universetoday.com/109408/mystery-of-the-martian-jelly-doughnut-rock-solved
There are plenty of digital anomalies on Mars & other planets & moons.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/nasa-solves-mystery-of-jelly-doughnut-shaped-rock
However, they might not all be attributed to a simple digital glitch. http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com

http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/mer-updates/2014/01-mer-update-opportunity-finds-mystery-rock.html

http://www.space.com/24356-mars-rock-mystery-opportunity-rover-photos.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140122-mars-doughnut-rock-pictures-weird-photos

http://news.discovery.com/space/mystery-rock-appears-in-front-of-mars-rover-140117.htm?SSFEAT=1400DNEWSOGRecs-1367966217880&SREF=CustomerSite&SFBState=Unknown

http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/mystery-of-nasas-jelly-doughnut-mars-rock-solved-140215.htm
If technology & history on earth goes back much further than the official story, there are serious implications.
http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.ca/2014/02/3000-year-old-hieroglyphics-depict.html
Its much easier the get most people to believe that intelligent life only exists on earth.
http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.ca/2013/05/mars-anomalies-mars-curiosity-rover-may.html
People would start to ask too many questions as to why would life exist on other worlds? In a universe that's well older than the equivalent of 13 billion years...Why would intelligent life exist on just one planet in the universe?
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Mars_Images.html 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mars

Study reveals unexpected network of watersheds on Mars — a breakthrough in understanding where life could have appeared

 https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/study-reveals-unexpected-network-of-watersheds-on-mars-a-breakthrough-in-understanding-where-life-could-have-appeared_22771 

https://outpostmagazine.com/living-the-mars-simulation This is a set or a stage in "real world" simulation, not a virtual or digital simulation. 

https://startalkmedia.com/show/life-in-a-mars-simulation-with-kelly-haston/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/exploring-mars-utah-mock-mission-simulation-space-science 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/20/nasa-scientist-mars-dune-alpha

What if this world, galaxy or universe is someones quantum computer simulation?

https://life-on-mars.fandom.com/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(US)

"At the end of the series, it is revealed that Tyler's 2008 and 1973 realities were both fictitious, created by the onboard computer of a spacecraft that is carrying Tyler, Hunt, Norris, Carling, and Skelton on the first-ever human mission to the planet Mars, in 2035. The crew he worked with in 1973 were just virtual reality versions of his fellow spaceship crew members. His room number, "2B", is his sleeping unit; his old precinct, "Hyde", and his new precinct, the "125", are based on the name of the spacecraft — "Hyde 125"; his neighbor, Windy, is the name of the computer A.I.; Frank Morgan, an FBI agent in the series, is the Mission Control flight director; and in a reversal from her struggle to be taken seriously as a police officer in 1973, Annie Norris is the ship's commander. To sustain the crew, their minds were routinely kept active while asleep using virtual reality "neural stimulation" programs of their own choosing, but Sam's choice of a scenario where he was a police officer c. 2008 was abruptly changed to a 1973 setting by a computer glitch induced by a meteor-storm." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(American_TV_series)#Synopsis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle#Wave_mechanics_interpretation 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/ 

https://thequantuminsider.com/2024/07/25/quantum-simulation-explained-the-next-big-thing-in-advanced-computing/

Of course, long before ever going to Mars, various simulations are necessary. Over the years, more and more people are wondering if Earth is part of a comic simulation from a more advanced civilization, or some kind of a higher power. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(British_TV_series)#Plot Was it just a time travel story, or was it some type of a simulation with Sim like characters? Either way, the main actor selected was John_Simm. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_in_the_Life_on_Mars_franchise#Sam_Tyler 

https://www.reddit.com/r/lifeonmars 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg#Matrix_mechanics_and_the_Nobel_Prize 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_matrix#Von_Neumann_equation_for_time_evolution 

https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory/comments/1jmyf14/i_got_this_book_the_simulated_multiverse_by/

Life on Mars and Other Worlds

Exploration of Mars:
www.space.com/13739-nasa-mars-exploration-future.html ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars Science_Laboratory, http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl ,
http://news.in.msn.com/gallery/curiosity-lands-on-mars-pics, http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov ,
www.aapg.org/explorer/2012/04apr/mars0412.cfm, http://airandspace.si.edu/etp/mars/explore.html,
www.guardian.co.uk/science/interactive/2012/aug/06/mars-exploration-curiosity-interactive,
http://science.nasa.gov/planetary-science, http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Science fiction has continually provided speculative glimpses of past & future interplanetary adventures throughout the decades.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mars

Clays found in Martian crater hint that the planet was once habitable

 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2282238-clays-found-in-martian-crater-hint-that-the-planet-was-once-habitable

The knowledge of life existing on more than one world is gradually being revealed.

https://www.salon.com/2021/02/07/why-some-scientists-believe-life-may-have-started-on-mars-before-migrating-to-earth/

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-021-00321-7/index.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/life-on-mars-78138144/

https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-finds-organic-salts-are-likely-present-on-mars-remnants-of-ancient-martian-microbial-life/

https://mars.nasa.gov/MPF/martianchronicle/martianchron7/signs.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/08/04/the-5-possibilities-for-life-on-mars/?sh=22c2c5e45387

https://www.space.com/17135-life-on-mars.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(British_TV_series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(American_TV_series)

Unlike Life of Mars, Total Recall is about colony life on Mars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_(1990_film)#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3qYVSSyuDU

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mars

NASA’s Mars rover makes ‘fantastic’ find in search for past life

 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02968-2

Mars is sometimes refer to as the planet of war.

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-life-mars-nasa-perseverance-rover.html

If there was an ancient war or disaster on Mars, how would anyone know? 

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/perseverance-finds-habitable-conditions-but-not-yet-life-on-mars

Information would have to be very gradually released.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12409/biology-and-the-exploration-of-mars

There are plenty of myths and legends to go around. Of course popular culture and the entertainment industry has helped to boost the overall mythology. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds 1897

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_of_Mars 1911

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles 1950

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film) 1967

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_to_Mars 2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_of_Mars 2001

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_(film) 2012

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Man_(song) 1972 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtVBCG6ThDk , https://www.youtube.com/c/EltonJohn/videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(British_TV_series) 2006

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(British_TV_series)#Music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(song) 1973

David Bowie – Life On Mars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo , https://www.youtube.com/c/davidbowie/videos 

John carter of Mars.

https://retellingthetales.com/myths-legends-fables-and-fairy-tales

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mars

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ET+Life

Crash site discovered on the surface of Mars by NASA helicopter

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/otherworldly-crash-site-discovered-on-surface-of-mars-by-nasa-helicopter/ar-AA1tTlsG

https://www.ladbible.com/news/science/nasa-helicopter-wreckage-surface-mars-212310-20241110

Is this a new story or an old story about what the Ingenuity_(helicopter) found?

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)#End_of_mission

Or, was there another angle to it?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/perseverance-rover-wreckage-mars-photo-nasa-ingenuity-helicopter/

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/mars-helicopter-photographs-spaceship-wreckage-on-red-planet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)#Gallery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_in_fiction

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mars

The Interplanetary Internet

The concept of an Interplanetary_Internet is gradually becoming possible.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/building-internet-moon/

https://qz.com/1919694/the-moon-is-getting-4g-internet-before-4-billion-earthlings/

https://www.theverge.com/22393952/glass-fiber-internet-cable-wifi-speed-5g-explainer-video

https://canteltelecom.com/2020/01/14/5-reasons-that-make-fiber-optic-future-proof/

https://marspedia.org/Internet#Concept_for_a_Martian_Internet

Of course basic communication conduits had to first be established on earth before ever thinking of the+moon and planets...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable#Antarctica

https://upload.wikimedia.org/Map_showing_overland_Pacific_Telegraph_from_San_Francisco_to_Moscow Global network proposal, 1862 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/New_York_utility_lines_in_1890.jpg/387px-New_York_utility_lines_in_1890.jpg

The_Victorian_Internet era was a good attempt in trying to connect more of the world. Today, billions of people are still without having an Internet access device.

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/networking/19/406

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/review-of-the-victorian-internet-the-remarkable-story-of-the-telegraph-and-the-nineteenth-centurys-on-line-pioneers-162122762/

https://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-victorian-internet/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52853.The_Victorian_Internet

https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/history/communication/early-developments/the-telegraph--the-victorian-internet

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/1901_Eastern_Telegraph_cables.png/593px-1901_Eastern_Telegraph_cables.png  

Eastern Telegraph cable network in 1901

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/World_map_of_submarine_cables.png/640px-World_map_of_submarine_cables.png

Global submarine cables in 2007

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable#Importance_of_submarine_cables

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170425005642/en/Beyond-Fiber-Optics-Teraphysics-Set-to-Enable-the-Future-of-5G-with-Wireless-High-Speed-Data-Delivery-Technology

https://kaw.wallenberg.org/en/research/broadband-mars-new-optical-amplifier

https://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-is-how-nasa-chooses-tech-for-the-international-space-station-and-why-ai-could-help-get-us-to Mars and beyond.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/4-android-smartphones-with-as-much-power-as-nasas-mars-helicopter

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/3/2/22309412/nasa-perseverance-mars-rover-processor-cpu-imac-1998

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2015/31oct_tablet

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2010/01/mars-tablets-and-hydrogel.html

Of course the initial startup of the Interplanetary_Internet will be a gradual step by step process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet#Protocol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet#Earth_orbit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Isaac_Asimov)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(TV_series)

While the moon is an important steppingstone, Mars remains as the first likely planet for initial interplanetary AI and human colonization. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=A.I.

A mysterious deep-sea creature that no human has EVER seen...

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12490773/Mysterious-golden-egg-discovered-seafloor-Alaska-belong-deep-sea-creature-unknown-science-experts-claim.html

If there was ancient life on Mars, perhaps some of it was also on Earth.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/life-may-have-been-more-likely-originate-mars-earth-180978021/

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/traces-ancient-ocean-discovered-mars/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12490957/NASAs-Perseverance-rover-spots-shark-fin-crab-claw-Mars.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia#Interstellar_or_interplanetary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_panspermia

In a way, the movie Life_(2017_film) is like a contemporary story about intelligent organic matter from Mars migrating to Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2017_film)#Plot

Of course The_Thing_(1982_film) is also a story about a hostile ET life form crashing on earth, but a very long time ago.

Horror_Express (1972) is another fascinating agressive ET on Earth story.

"The extraterrestrial has been stranded on Earth for millions of years. It kills passengers with specific knowledge that could help it build a new spaceship. Eventually, Cossack Captain Kazan stabs and shoots Mirov. With Mirov dying, Pujardov, believing the creature to be Satan and having pledged allegiance to it prior, allows it to possess him." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_Express#Plot

Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film) is an interesting story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film)#Plot

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24796/five-million-years-to-earth/#overview

Satellites spot the effect of clusters of 'spiders' sprawled across a Mars' like Inca City

 https://www.space.com/spiders-mars-inca-city-satellite-photo

Mars has been the inspiration of a lot of things in popular culture over the years. Especially, the Spiders from Mars and mice...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Ziggy_Stardust_and_the_Spiders_from_Mars , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou8uLo3Ke6U , https://www.davidbowie.com/ziggy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(song) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKcl4-tcuo , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars_(song)#Lyrics

To the girl with the mousy hair

It's on America's tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow

See the mice in their million hordes

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/davidbowie/lifeonmars.html

Such a classic song with a few mouse references in it.

Eventually, there was the cartoon, Biker_Mice_from_Mars. From interplanetary mice to intergalactic mice.

https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Mouse_(The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)  

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=mice

The technology of the Elon Musk (Musktech) companies

 https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/07/powerful-combinations-of-tesla-spacex-neuralink-xai-products.html

https://insight.openexo.com/elon-musk-a-modern-prometheus-in-technology-and-innovation/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacexs-starlink-teases-8gbps-downloads-with-mobile-gateway-tech

Elon+Musk sure likes to think big and has been for quite a while. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Business_career

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/13/elon-musks-10-greatest-inventions-changing-the-world.html

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/18/1095036/whats-next-for-spacexs-falcon-9

https://yellowhammernews.com/did-von-braun-prophesize-elon-musk-colonizing-mars

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-mars-scientist-braun-b1879535.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale "It was written by von Braun in German in 1949 and entitled Marsprojekt." 

"The explorers soon make contact with the Martians. They are humanoid in appearance and live underground. They welcome the earthlings who quickly establish that they are an ancient and benevolent "super-civilization".^[12] After establishing verbal communication, the humans learn about the Martians' social structure and their form of government, which is run by ten men under the leadership of "the Elon"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars:_A_Technical_Tale#Synopsis

https://www.cnet.com/culture/elon-musks-first-name-shows-up-in-1953-book-about-colonizing-mars

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/technology/elon-musk-spacex-mars.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_heavy-lift_launch_vehicle#Operational

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars#Technological_innovations_and_hurdles

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/tag/spacex

Why Elon+Musk Is Building The World's BIGGEST Supercomputer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fSUI_mzaxM

Elon Musk's Question to AI: What's Outside The Simulation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK0q812bAK0

Is life a video game? | Elon Musk | Code Conference 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KK_kzrJPS8

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=SpaceX

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+technology+of+the+Elon+Musk

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Elon+Musk+on+the+Simulation+Hypothesis

Sending Lab Animals Into Space...

Sending animals_into_space has been occurring for several decades. https://www.space.com/33823-why-do-we-send-animals-to-space.html

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/F_Animals_in_Space_9-12.html , https://www.businessinsider.com/animals-nasa-russia-space-agencies-sent-to-space-2019-6

Then by the early 21st century a much wider variety of life forms had been sent into space. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-mice-fish-flies-animals-space.html

 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nasa-squid-space These experiments with aquatic based life have also been going on for quite a while.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20474-squid-go-into-space-for-the-sake-of-humanity

The Insane Biology of: The Octopus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFP_AjJeP-M

What if the earth is like someone's garden, zoo or laboratory?

"Twelve extraterrestrial spacecraft hover over disparate locations around the Earth. Affected nations send military and scientific experts to monitor and study them; in the United States, US Army Colonel Weber recruits Banks and physicist Ian Donnelly to study the craft above Montana. On board, Banks and Donnelly make contact with two cephalopod-like, seven-limbed aliens, whom they call 'heptapods'..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film)#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCpUl7pFOBE

Imagine after the arrival of some advanced ET Cephalopods that they want to do more than shake your hand. Friend or foe? That's always been a common theme in sci-fi.

https://www.livescience.com/62594-octopuses-are-not-aliens-panspermia.html While there is no evidence of any intelligent ET cephalopods around here, what if this world is someones lab experiment? The concept and theory of panspermia in general, can't easily be  dismissed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia#Proposed_mechanisms

Intelligent ET Life might not always fit into the category of benevolent or malevolent. Sometimes it might just be about its survival.

"In the near future, the unmanned Pilgrim 7 space probe returns from Mars to Earth orbit with soil samples potentially containing evidence of extraterrestrial life. The probe is intercepted by the International Space Station, whose six-member crew retrieves its samples. Exobiologist Hugh Derry revives a dormant cell from the sample, which quickly grows into a multi-celled organism that American school children name "Calvin." Derry realises that Calvin's cells can change their specialisation, acting as muscle, neuron, and photosensory cells all at once.

When Derry conducts further research on Calvin, it crushes his hand and knocks him unconscious. Calvin escapes its enclosure and it devours a lab rat, growing in size. Engineer Rory Adams rescues Derry, but is quarantined in the lab when Calvin attacks him. Adams tries to fight off Calvin, but is killed; Calvin escapes through a fire-control vent. Soon after, the station's communication system overheats, cutting off all contact with Earth." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2017_film)#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space#2020s

The Tardigrade is quite an amazing and versatile creature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W194GQ6fHI

https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/water-bears-in-space

"The moon might now be home to thousands of planet Earth's most indestructible animals.

Tardigrades - often called water bears - are creatures under a millimetre long that can survive being heated to 150C and frozen to almost absolute zero..." https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-49265125

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a11137/tardigrades-water-bears

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade#Physiology , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nMOp49AlzM

The joke use to be that the moon was made of cheese, perhaps some day there will be mice on Mars.

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-rodents-nasa-mars.html

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-seeks-us-citizens-for-ground-based-simulation-of-life-in-space Some people want to become lab mice. 

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-seeks-us-citizens-for-ground-based-simulation-of-life-in-space 

If this world, galaxy or universe is someones laboratory, then all sorts of things could be going on. How would people ever even know what the big picture is?

LIFE BEYOND: Chapter 1. Alien life, deep time, and our place in cosmic history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUelbSa-OkA

LIFE BEYOND II: The Museum of Alien Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDYazipjSI

All kinds of simulations depicting various life forms can be possible. https://scitechdaily.com/life-in-the-galaxy-huge-simulations-find-some-completely-unexpected-results

Sending animals into space for dangerous tests could be done by running simulations instead.

https://celestia.space , http://spaceengine.org

https://gamerant.com/metacritic-best-space-flight-simulators-games

https://www.sciencegamecenter.org/games/space-simulator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_flight_simulation_games

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-we-live-in-a-simulation

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=mice 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=lab+animals

Biker Mice from Mars

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biker_Mice_from_Mars September 19, 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biker_Mice_from_Mars#Characters

Space mice and mice in general seem to appear in lots of fiction. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biker_Mice_from_Mars_(2006_TV_series)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/11/30/are-there-mice-on-mars

What is it about the mouse that is depicted in so much entertainment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_on_Mars

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mice

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mars

Colonization of Mars and Other Places

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars#Relative_similarity_to_Earth

Mars continues to capture the imagination of many people.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/mars-astronaut-requirements

Is Bill Gates Still Planning on Cutting Down 70 Million Acres of Trees?

 https://www.greenmatters.com/climate-action/bill-gates-cutting-down-trees

While this agenda in of itself doesn't quite fit the type of James_Bond_villains, it's still very concerning.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-marc-benioff-argue-planting-trees-climate-change-2023-9

https://www.fastcompany.com/90957447/bill-gates-says-complete-nonsense-planting-trees-solve-climate-change-why-we-should-do-it-anyway

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/3/can-planting-trees-really-help-fight-climate-change

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/gates-backed-venture-will-not-chop-down-70-million-acres-trees-2023-10-06/

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/15/1065016/a-stealth-effort-to-bury-wood-for-carbon-removal-has-just-raised-millions/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/life-on-mars-may-have-been-its-own-worst-enemy/

https://earthsky.org/space/life-on-mars-methanogens-extinction/

Hopefully, this mentality won't spread to Brazil & Canada.

Brazil still has plenty of room for growth without taking down more of its forests & jungles.

Canada also has plenty of room for growth and can still protect most of its forests while having a lumber industry. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Bill+Gates

NASA plans for space station’s demise with new SpaceX ‘Deorbit Vehicle’

 https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/07/18/nasa-plans-for-space-stations-demise-with-new-spacex-deorbit-vehicle

Elon+Musk really wants to cover a lot of bases, from a technology products perspective.

https://www.space.com/iss-deorbit-destroy-spacex-vehicle-18-months

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/01/elon-musk-spacex-plans-moonbase-mars-city-and-terraformed-mars.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_heavy-lift_launch_vehicle#Operational

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/18/1095036/whats-next-for-spacexs-falcon-9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Gateway#Structure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars#Technological_innovations_and_hurdles

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/tag/spacex

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=SpaceX

The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)

Mars has been a big part of Sci-Fi entertainment for quite a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_in_fiction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds#Background

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Mars

The Moon isn't Made of Cheese and there aren't any Biker Mice from Mars, but there are mice in this galaxy

 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53107/why-do-people-say-moon-made-cheese

https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/cheese-moon-myth-science

https://blogs.esa.int/orion/2022/11/18/the-moon-is-it-really-made-of-cheese/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biker_Mice_from_Mars

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147752/

https://bikermice.fandom.com/wiki/Biker_Mice_from_Mars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biker_Mice_from_Mars_(2006_TV_series)

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/06/oni-biker-mice-from-mars-june-2025/

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Mice

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1MmQjXrkwp98jNdc17j3tr3/mice

https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Mouse_(The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film)

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=mice