Beaver friend GTK wrote recently that the entire popular science archives are now available online. Surprisingly, there are several entries about beaver on Mars. Here’s a 1930’s favorite by Thomas Elway:
Check out the illustration in the center of the beaver-mouse-pig at the helm of some kind of fiendish beaver spacecraft. I haven’t yet stopped laughing at that. Thank you so much GTK for the best beaver image ever. The article is a little more thoughtful.
Read that last line again please. ‘evidence not accompanied by signs of intelligence’, ergo, it must be a beaver. Because certainly beaver don’t leave signs of intelligence like dams or lodges or canals that might be visible. They are too busy flying their spacecraft and plotting world domination.
Ahh given the myriad of misunderstandings beavers have been subject to, this seems like par for the course. Beavers eat fish? Okay. Beavers cause Giardia? Okay. Beavers flood cities? Okay. Beavers live on Mars? Why the hell not?
