thoughts?

I have been thinking today about the possibility of legally becoming a Martian. I wonder if there is a lot of bureaucracy to contend with, forms to fill out, queues to wait in, that sort of thing. Does one have to have been born on the planet itself? That would be the first detail to get straight. An affirmative to that question and the whole thing's done before it even gets off the ground.

For now the assumption is no Martian civilization exists on the Red Planet, at least not anymore (or not yet). Perhaps we will find out more anon (Do you net-savvy see what I did there?). Humans are sending probing machines to the crimson sphere through the vast tracts of blackness. Robots have been there. Robots built by humans. Perhaps they are the Martians, at present. I'd prefer the "little green men" myself, though even that notion shares something with the machines: human ideas imposed upon the alien. The sublime wonder of "the other" can so easily be debased. And yet, I still want to know if I can become a Martian. I'm pretty fed up with a lot of the destruction being wreaked upon the Earth by human ideas. There is a good deal of work for a Martian ambassador to do preventing humanity from further "flourishing" on other worlds. That and environmental activism. Or its opposite, I suppose. I'm not sure if such an ambassador would attempt pleading the case of non-human life on Earth or hastening human self-destruction. Then, the alien come to earth may not have any strong feelings either way.