Professor Brian Cox has speculated on the idea that humans, rather than the presumed life forms on Mars, are Martians.
The renowned scientist told the BBC’s Sunday Morning program that many questions remain unanswered. Life on Earth may have originated elsewhere.
Physicist and science popularizer Brian Cox says humanity has no choice but to colonize Mars if it is to have a future. Cox is a professor at Manchester University in the United Kingdom. He rose to international prominence as a documentary presenter, bringing millions of viewers on virtual trips into space.
Humans will one day live on Mars, according to Professor Brian Cox, and will be the Martians of the future.
Brian Cox and his theories
The pop star-turned-physicist stated that Mars is the only planet to which humanity will be able to travel. Also, this must occur since humans cannot live on Earth indefinitely.
“It is actually the only place we can go beyond Earth,” Brian Cox said.
“In any plausible scenario, there is nowhere else that humans can go to begin their step outwards from the planet, other than Mars. If you think of the other planets, there are none of the others we can land on.”
“We are almost at a decision point in our civilization that for the first time we have the technology and the will to turn ourselves into a multi-planet civilization,” he told the Irish News in 2017. “That’s if we don’t have a big political setback or we don’t destroy ourselves in a nuclear war.”
The reason humanity has never made contact with aliens could be depressing. We could be the galaxy’s only intelligent life forms.
Professor Brian Cox has proposed that while microbial life is rather ubiquitous – and even discovered in our own solar system – intellectual life is “extremely rare.”
He explained that because our civilization evolved over billions of years, civilizations similar to ours may be incredibly rare.
“If you forced me to guess,” the physicist said on BBC One’s Sunday Morning, “I would say there may be microbes all over the place, that’s why we’re looking for life on Mars.”