Much of our popular literature and films about Mars, such as “War of the Worlds,” “Invaders from Mars,” and “Mars Attacks!,” has supposed that there is life on the red planet - but life that is markedly hostile to ours and out to get us.
And for as long as humans have been around, we have been fascinated by Mars, and more than a little fearful of it, too. Miraculously, Earth did survive, allowing life - and eventually, our kind - to evolve. It is remarkable and supremely unlikely that our planet survived the intense violence of the early solar system, though not without its dings: After all, one prominent theory holds, it was a collision with a body about the size of Mars that knocked the chunk of real estate called the Moon into our sky. So it is with the stars, the planets - with everything in the universe: The odds are always with nothingness and annihilation, and always against existence. Mars has always captured our imagination in books and film
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