“A Two-way Ticket to Mars”, finally Dr. Marco, a biologist got selected by NASA.
His Travel Agenda is simple “Find life on Mars, else Return back”
Media across the world covered his sensational Take-off. Even, President of America greeted him in person.
After three hundred days of long journey,
Space Craft landed successfully and he reported back the complete status of his voyage to the base station.
As he took his first step on the new planet, He called himself cheerfully “History will remember me, Marco, The Mars Man !”
To his surprise, he felt a strong electric pang on his back, within seconds he collapsed. Rest all is void.
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He woke up with a blurry vision, and can only notify an Alien like creature before him.
Alien started speaking to him, “Wake up Mister, we are all waiting to hear you”
He gained his consciousness, this time he quoted himself , “ Marco, Met the first Mars Man”
Marco in firm voice replied, “Am glad I have met you guys, this will make my job lot easier, do you have Life on Mars ?”
“What is Life ?” asked the Alien
“Simple, any Creature that breathes, crawls and dies ?
Alien was more confused, they never heard of such thing.
Biologist in vain tried to explain Life from all the views, be it Biological, Spiritual or Philosophical
None of the concepts really reached them.
He asked “What is one thing, that you know about Earth ?”
Alien replied “American Football, Indian Cricket, and Chinese Ping Pong”
Sports Channels got lot of business to do in here, he jotted down on his notepad.
Give me an hour or so, I will prepare a Report that you can read.
After an Hour,
He submitted the following
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Name of the Game: Evolution
Umpire: Mother Nature
Duration: Millions of Years
Play Ground: Whole of Earth
Rules:
1. Survival of the fittest
2. Follow rule ONE, else extinct
Players: Elephant, Rhinoceros, Giraffe, Humans, Snakes, Birds and billion other insects
Equipment: Horns for Bulls, Tail for Kangaroos, Beak for Parrot, Brain for humans, so on and so forth..
Limited Resources: Land, Water, Shelter and Safety
Game-Play:
It happens in three phases
1. Natural Selection – Enhancing an equipment (or body part) of the player to accustom to natural environment, like the skin of Seal in Cold weather.
2. Mate Selection – Enhancing an equipment (or body part) of the player to attract the opposite sex, like long feathers of Peacock
3. Artificial Selection – Adjusting to a dominant species, like Sheep giving skin to Men
Challenges: Seasonal Changes, Torrential Rains, Earthquakes, forest fires and many other force majeure events
Hall of Fame: Dinosaurs and Humans (I hail from this genus)
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After reading the Report, Alien was baffled and said they would like to visit Earth and see the Game of Evolution LIVE.
But, the space craft can only accommodate one seat. So, Marco promised the Alien, He would return back with a Caravan to fit in all for a return trip to Earth.
Happily, he went back to his Home.
“Marco, the Mars Man” ran the NEWS headlines across all countries. He became an instant celebrity with maximum followers in any given Social Media.
It took two years, NASA did an intensive research and came out with Caravan Space Craft, even its Arch Enemy Russia invested in the project.
After three hundred days of its departure,
He finally landed on Mars.
To his shock, no one is around, no aliens, no foot prints of them either.
After a week, doing a thorough search of the entire land for miles
He found a short Note at last.
“Dear Human,
With a short study of your world history, we found the mess you made to the Blue Planet, to the fellow species and to yourself. Now, we don’t prefer such a fate, we choose Genocide.”
Good bye,
Mars is all yours.”
In tears, The Biologist shouted in thin air, “Marco ! The Mysterious Mars Man went missing”
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