Looking at pictures of Martian features, the scientific community is most interested in the general principles of planetary development. They look at such things as cratering, lava flows, mountain building, possible water sources & sinks, the plains, polar ice caps, etc.

Amateurs, on the other hand, know that nothing exotic or earth shaking will be discovered here. We look to the anomalous features. Here is where there is true potential for the "really, big shew". Fortunately, Mars has provided a plethora of peculiar pictures to pic perspicacious people's pervasive, (but) preconceived perceptions pertaining to possible (perhaps plentiful ... and even ... pulchritudinous - though ponderous) Platyhelminthes and their plexus of pliable pathways. Put that in your piehole ;o)

Arthur C. Clark has begun castigating the scientific community for neglecting what to him are the most interesting pictures so far found in our solar system. Nothing is being said. The ostrich is doing his thing ... as expected.

Because of this abrogation of responsibility, you, the average guy, can fill the vacuum and do the scientific research to find "life on Mars". Just go to the Mars Global Surveyor Images site and download some pics ... or ... download the raw data from Mars as well as the decompression program and viewer ... and ... start lookin'. There are tens of thousands of pictures ... plenty enough for everyone. Experience the thrill of discovery (or self-delusion ;o) for yourself.

What I am posting here are my deductions based on the facts of the pictures, the physics of Mars, and basic biological facts known from earth. The end result is rather shocking (even to me) ... but what can I do but follow the trail where it leads? I've gone back over it many times to see if I've made some horrendous error ... and found nothing of consequence. This must be basically true ... or ... what? I don't know. The whole thing seems impossible ... we're way past improbable here.

I'm naming the creatures after Richard Hoagland (one could make the case for Bill Weller too). I just think of them in my own mind as "Hoagies" rather than "Welps". What the hay? ... as long as they're not named after me ;o)

If I'm proven wrong in any of my deductions ... that's great. I'm quite uncomfortable with this model as it is. It's just tooooooooooooooooo bizarre ... even for me.

The Story ...

There have been found in the Mars pictures these "tubes" often referred as glass tubes because they are translucent or even transparent. There are miles and miles of them ... some mostly buried ... a few completely exposed as in these pics. The diameter of the ubiquitous tubes is tremendous ... 20-40 meters in general. That's about big enough to put two interstate highways through. Supposedly, they are exposed through the mechanism of geological weathering of the surface. This gives them the possible (and acceptable to the scientific establishment) geologic explanation.

I shall show conclusively that these tunnels are not geologic. This leaves us with the awesome conclusion that they have another origin of which there are only two possibilities ... they are organic ... or ... they are artificial.

My conclusion is organic.

Let us proceed.

Here are the "Hoagy" tunnels or "glass tubes" with some comments. See if you can spot a fault in my reasoning along the way. Am I not seeing this right? Just ... what?

M1104220-A Observe the clear, see-through nature of the tubes. Here is a complete oval going all the way around the tube. Most of the "bracing" can only be seen in part. But no matter at what angle any brace from any tube is viewed, it impresses us as being a circle around the whole tube. Remember - you can click on the picture to see the larger context from which it was cropped ... if it's finished loading at the bottom of this page. Then click on the big pic to return here. M1104220-B The "dual" nature of the tube (right) is evident in the enhanced views of B below. There appears to be an inner and outer "sleeve". Here, part of the outer sleeve appears to be disrupted and-or missing. And to the right, the entire tube seems collapsed into "shards" & "shambles". M1104220-E M1104220-C         This section seems to have detritus (or ... "connective" material seen elsewhere) on the high side and the outer sheath is also missing. M1104220-D