MYS179: After 19th-century astronomers said Mars has a worldwide network of canals, people speculated there was not just life but a civilization there. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore whether there is life on Mars, and if so, how it got there and what it is like.
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Links for this episode:

* Bradley Schaefer’s audio course The Remarkable Science of Ancient Astronomy
* Michael Brooks’ book 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense
* Marcia Bartusiak’s book The Day We Found the Universe
* Percival Lowell’s book Mars and Its Canals
* Gilbert Levin’s web site
* Gil Levin’s 2020 summary of evidence
* Life on Mars (Wikipedia)
* Christian Huygens
* Giovanni Schiapparelli
* Percival Lowell
* Martian “Canals”
* Flash floods on ancient Mars (video)
* David Bowie’s song Life on Mars
* Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds
* Lucian of Samosata
* A True Story
* David Bowie’s 1971 song “Life on Mars?”
* Video of the song “Life on Mars?”
* 1962 Science magazine article “Martian Biology”

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