It’s back to the drawing board for sci-fi writers and movie producers. Aliens are not little green men, and they’re certainly not slime-ridden creatures with extra large eyes. We now have proof that they’re hirsute women. NASA’s Spirit has captured a Martian woman sunning herself on a red rock, in a pose quite similar to the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen.
On Earth, however, very few societies allow their women to walk around in all their hairy glory – that’s the prerogative of the men. But from this image we can infer that among the Martians at least, hair is in. Julia Roberts should be happy. Images of her hairy armpit still evoke horror and revulsion.
Of course, rationalists are quick to dismiss the Martian woman as the product of an overactive imagination. They attribute it to pareidolia, where people tend to see human faces in inanimate objects. Some say it’s a trick of light and shadow. But that’s what rationalists are about. They’ll use reason and logic to justify the boring view of the universe.
And then we would have to go back to little green men and slimy creatures. I like the idea of a hairy Martian woman. She lives in a world where torturous procedures like waxing and threading do not exist. And when she’s not abducting Americans for medical experiments, she likes to sit on a rock and watch the sun set.
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