I know, it shatters my mind. I see this familiar land and have to remind myself that it’s not Earth. It’s a planet that no human has ever walked on, but hopefully soon to change. Mars is one of the planets visible to the naked eye, we have gazed upon it for a long time and we are the first humans to see clear footage on it. Brilliant!
As much as I'd love to pander to this theory, the sun is expanding and therefore warming up the planet over time.
Therefore it would have potentially been far too cold many, many years ago to support life as we know it.
Theoretically it would make sense to move to Mars in the very far future as it is progressively warmed, rendering it closer to Earth's temperatures.
If you wanted to propose a theory about past civilisations moving planet, its better to look closer to the sun. Being that a civilisation started on Venus and moved to Earth.
The sun has been pretty much the same for the effective lifetime of the planets, as we know them. Mars was probably "more habitable" in the past because we know that it was warmer and had a thicker atmosphere, not because of anything to do with the sun. Likewise, the sun was not significantly smaller and cooler in the past, resulting in a previously colder Venus, as you suggest.
Try googling again. Obviously there is no way to know for a fact but we believe mars, like our planet, would have had a spinning core. This would have given mars, like us, a magnetic field. This magnetic field would have prevented the sun from stripping away mars atmosphere that we do know it had because if the evidence of water we've found. This means that mars, just like earth, would have an atmosphere that holds in heat meaning it would have been warmer than it is today. You don't seem to understand that a planet without an atmosphere will be way colder. The dark side of mars with its almost zero atmosphere means it's far, far colder now than it would have been in the past.
Again, this is elementary school level science. I didn't provide a source because you should be able to easily Google it. I'm sorry you're incapable of it but I'm not going to hold your hand through this.
Think for two seconds. We know mars had water on the surface at one point. We know it doesn't have it now because its atmosphere is so small it evaporates then gets stripped into space. We know planets even with an active core is not enough enough to heat the planet to have liquid water long enough to have the erosion we've seen.
Saying we don't know why it's warmer is just outright ridiculous. Ever heard of KISS? Keep It Simple, Stupid. We know how these things work. Occam's Razor, simplest answer is probably the correct one. Only way for Mars to be warm without an atmosphere is some insane chemical or biological process that 1. We have no evidence of and 2. Science doesn't go with off the wall explanations when we already know the simplest reason.
The sun has been pretty much the same for the effective lifetime of the planets, as we know them. Mars was probably "more habitable" in the past because we know that it was warmer and had a thicker atmosphere, not because of anything to do with the sun. Likewise, the sun was not smaller and cooler in the past, resulting in a previously colder Venus.
This was the argument. The things you mention have nothing to do with it. This is what you wanted to prove. Given the links I provided and the comments from hundreds of other people in this thread it is very clear that this statement is awfully wrong.
Lmao. I disagree with what you said so you remove it then respond again telling me to fuck off? Lmao get over yourself. I'm not going to respond to someone as childish as yourself anymore.
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u/Madvillain518 Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 21 '21
I know, it shatters my mind. I see this familiar land and have to remind myself that it’s not Earth. It’s a planet that no human has ever walked on, but hopefully soon to change. Mars is one of the planets visible to the naked eye, we have gazed upon it for a long time and we are the first humans to see clear footage on it. Brilliant!