Mars, our nearest planetary neighbor, has long been a source of fascination for the world.  Are there aliens there?  Will we go pay a visit and explore the surface?  Are there gorillas?  Well, actually, the Martian gorilla pictures are a new phenomenon, but long story short, mankind has a long and storied history of being captivated by the Red Planet.  Gorillas barely touch the surface of the weird stuff we find on Mars.

Between the weird rock formation that kind of looks like a Gorilla statue, and the image of a woman that looks like she’s waiting on a bus, it’s obvious that Mars used to be a planet full of life before some geological disaster stole all the atmosphere and banished all the water to the Martian polar ice caps.  I would assume that Mars was the inspiration behind Planet of the Apes.  They might have retconned it to be Earth, but they really meant Mars was a planet where apes evolved from men!

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