The first report from the kabonfootprint investigation team brainstorming meeting was issued earlier today. The issue of how the Kabon flew into space from Mars.

Since the presence of water has been confirmed on Mars, we suspect that the Kabon evolved to electrolyse the water into brown gas which is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen in an ideal form for use as a propellant.

The gas would then have been stored in it’s body in a special lung surrounded by a shell to permit high pressures to be maintained. The water was probably absorbed into the lung through the shell material and converted to brown gas by a chemical process. Since the lung was airtight, the pressure of the gas would build up gradually over weeks and months until the lung or tank was full of liquid gas.

At this point the Kabon would have been ready for launch. We think the Kabon was like a giant sea turtle since it would need to be streamlined for flight and have a strong, protective shell. Also, the kabonfootprint is not unlike that of a turtle.

We think the Kabon had a flintstone-like tail that sealed off the gas chamber. To initiate the launch, it would have smashed it’s rear against rock whilst standing up on it’s haunches. This would have broken the seal and at the same time sparks would have been produced to ignite the escaping gas.

So, it is in effect a rocket! The thrust of the rocket tail would have driven the Kabon up vertically into the Martian atmosphere. It would presumably have steered itself with small wing-like flaps and movements of it’s tail.

Once reaching escape velocity, it would enter space and retract into it’s shell to drift towards earth.

Like a homing pidgeon, it would have sensed a course towards Earth making small adjustments to it’s trajectory as the last of the brown gas was used up.