"Pity the Poor Coelacanth,
He has no legs with which to dance,
He has no vocal cords to sing,
He hasn't much of anything..."
-Author ????
The Coelacanth, an ancient denizen of the one ocean from deep in Earth's biological past was something we learned about from fossiled remains.
Relics , dead recolletions of the distant past.
That is, until the late 1930's when one showed up at fish maket in South Africa dressed out and ready to be slathered with spices and slapped on a bed of coals!
MMMmm! Coelacanth !
We didn't see our boy again for good number of years as the span of a human existence runs, not because he wasn't about but beause he lived in places we didn't visit. The span of a human soul is meager compared to the longevity of a species, miniscule in its comparison.
Human technological prowess has granted us access to places that are home to
mythological gods and monsters.
Are myths rooted genetic memory or historical fact?
Isn't it a reasonable possiblity?
Sixty years later marine biologists have discovered
three
distinct populations of Coelacanths in different parts of the world.
Thriving populations.
At depths that daunted human technology.
In a place we'd never visited...
Now we've gone to Mars.
A place we didn't visit...a place we know of from myth. Going to Mars is probably easier for humans than going to deepest darkest depths of the one ocean.
Feel free to raise your hand if you've visited the Marianas Trench and seen a giant squid, with eyes the size of semi-truck tires, black as depths of the river Styx. Endless tentacles for defence.
Congratulations.
There are more astounding revelations to come.....
Mars is no longer the dead world that the 1970's science taught us about.
Nasa says liquid water is leaking out to stain the parched terrain of an angry red planet.
Mars was rich with water, and now we are told with life.
Scientists tell us that all the water that once covered the surface of Mars is still present
on the angry red planet. It's gone under the surface Mars.
Now we are told of volcanic activity on Mars, a souce of heat and life.
We have apparent images of Nazca-like dolphin pictograms and ruined arcologies bearing the likeness
of a cetacean lifeform on the surface of Mars.
Artifacts of tremendous scale litter the scarred face of our sister planet.
Are there Coelacanths waiting to be discovered on Mars?
Have we stumbled across their petrified remains?
Crop of
http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M10/M1000390.html
Are they still mucking about waiting to be rediscovered?
Special thanks to Eric Lausch, Kevin Klettke, Dick Hoagland and Mike Malin for this image.
You Decide.
Johnny D.
Special thanks to Keith Laney and Mike Malin for this image.
