The Merry Go Round Theory

I was reading this morning about a new Mars probe about to be launched that will actually dig in to the Martian soil to see if there are any signs of microbial life, either right now or in the past.

My vote is yes, if they dig deep enough they will find something. Actually I believe they’ll find more than they bargained for. I think there used to be life on Mars. Why? Because I think Mars used to be right here where the Earth is now.

DISCLAIMER: I’m not looking to start an interstellar war with any scientists out there. I haven’t spent years researching this. It’s just my personal theory. So don’t send me any intergalactic hate mail.

Ok, my theory is pretty simple. It developed as I played on the Merry Go Round as a kid. You remember them, right? It was a fun piece of playground equipment where you’d load up a bunch of unsuspecting kids and then the fun would begin as you stood on terra firma and spun the thing faster and faster until kids started flying off in all directions. The tricky part was that in order to spin the thing you had to stand in the “circle of death”. This was the bare ground around the Merry Go Round where grass couldn’t grow because of all the kids being dragged on the ground around it. So you had to be able to grab the bar to spin it faster and at the same time watch for any projectile kids coming off the spinning toy of terror.

Ok, back to planets… they are rotating around the sun, fast, and the only thing keeping them from hurtling out of the solar system is the pull from the sun's gravity. This part is scientifically true. It’s the next part that leaves the standard trail.

So these big, huge, ginormous planets are traveling very fast (the Earth travels about 18½ miles every second), and they're constantly trying to break free of the sun. They can’t of course because the sun is too strong. But the sun is also getting old. The older it gets, the weaker it becomes. Make sense?

Scientists insist that our universe is full of galaxies all traveling outward, expanding. Well, so is our solar system. That would just make sense.

So I propose that a long time ago all of the planets were much closer to the sun. As they’ve traveled around the sun centrifugal force, or the Merry Go Round effect, makes them move outward as the sun slowly, very minutely each millennia, gets weaker.

The Earth used to look just like Venus, and Mars used to be where we are now, in the perfect place in the solar system for a planet to sustain a livable atmosphere.

But slowly, it moved out of that orbit and died, and the Earth took its place. Which is why the Dinosaurs died; they lived on the Earth when it was in an orbit that could sustain animals of their type. Once the Earth moved from that orbit, they died. Hey, that's just as plausible as a giant meteor hitting the Earth and killing everything.

So, many millennia from now the Earth will be where Mars is. Dead and forgotten, and Venus will take over as the new life planet in the solar system. And if God decides to put men and women on that planet they will no doubt, just as we did, gaze up into the night sky and wonder if anything ever lived on the other planets of the solar system.

“God, we’re mere mortals and couldn’t possibly know how the universe was really created. I only know that you did it. It may have happened in 7 days, or it may have been in 7 billion years. It doesn’t matter. How ever it happened I know that it was you who created it, for the purposes of giving mankind a place to live. Thanks for the cool home.”