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Originally posted by thx1138
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This idea has been bouncing around my head for some time. What if the so called extra-terrestrials are our ancestors?
Our current civilization if 20,000 to 40,000 years old depending on who you ask. Yet there are clearly manufactured stone structures around the planet older than that.
The earth's magnetic field reverses every 400 thousand to 1.2 million years and can be relatively fast (10's or 100's of years) or slow (1,000's of years). During the magnetic reversal the earth's magnetic field gets very distorted and possibly fragmented such that there are multiple north and south poles. During this time the magnetic field is weakened so the protection from the solar wind is reduced. Should any of these multiple poles be perpendicular to the sun's magnetic poles instead of the parallel magnetic poles we enjoy now, those perpendicular poles could be pointing directly at the sun and would, in that case, be drawing the solar wind down to the planet's surface as occurs now to produce auroral lights. But they would would be much stronger because they would, in effect, be pointed right at the sun rather than being on the cusps. That would literally scorch regions of the surface and possibly melt all ice on the planet. That would destroy a lot, if not all, of life on the planet, any surviving life being either in caves or very deep in the oceans.
Suppose there was a human civilization before ours that lasted for a million years or so. Knowing what we know now after 0.020 or 0.040 million years of development and the rate of gaining knowledge evidenced in the last 200 years, it would not be unreasonable for a 1.000 million year old civilization to develop travel at light speed, or nearly so. Now suppose they took off for a jaunt of say 10 or 50 years or so at nearly light speed and 100,000 years passed on the earth. Suppose a magnetic pole reversal occurred that wiped out nearly all of the life on earth while they were away and what we see today is that remainder of civilization rebuilding itself.
Then the "extra-terrestrials" might not be extra-terrestrial at all, but our ancestors evolved even further. They are us and we are them. They drop in once in a while, look around, shake their heads sadly, and head out again saying, "We really came from THAT?" And while they're here they plant a little knowledge and possibly do a little genetic manipulation before taking off.
As for Roswell, well, **** happens.
On the other hand, they may have originated in another galaxy and we might just be their liver farm for their pate de foie gras and they don't want to harvest too much at once because it would drive the price down.
BTW, I LOVE pate de foie gras. I don't, however, want to be it.
Our current civilization if 20,000 to 40,000 years old depending on who you ask. Yet there are clearly manufactured stone structures around the planet older than that.
The earth's magnetic field reverses every 400 thousand to 1.2 million years and can be relatively fast (10's or 100's of years) or slow (1,000's of years). During the magnetic reversal the earth's magnetic field gets very distorted and possibly fragmented such that there are multiple north and south poles. During this time the magnetic field is weakened so the protection from the solar wind is reduced. Should any of these multiple poles be perpendicular to the sun's magnetic poles instead of the parallel magnetic poles we enjoy now, those perpendicular poles could be pointing directly at the sun and would, in that case, be drawing the solar wind down to the planet's surface as occurs now to produce auroral lights. But they would would be much stronger because they would, in effect, be pointed right at the sun rather than being on the cusps. That would literally scorch regions of the surface and possibly melt all ice on the planet. That would destroy a lot, if not all, of life on the planet, any surviving life being either in caves or very deep in the oceans.
Suppose there was a human civilization before ours that lasted for a million years or so. Knowing what we know now after 0.020 or 0.040 million years of development and the rate of gaining knowledge evidenced in the last 200 years, it would not be unreasonable for a 1.000 million year old civilization to develop travel at light speed, or nearly so. Now suppose they took off for a jaunt of say 10 or 50 years or so at nearly light speed and 100,000 years passed on the earth. Suppose a magnetic pole reversal occurred that wiped out nearly all of the life on earth while they were away and what we see today is that remainder of civilization rebuilding itself.
Then the "extra-terrestrials" might not be extra-terrestrial at all, but our ancestors evolved even further. They are us and we are them. They drop in once in a while, look around, shake their heads sadly, and head out again saying, "We really came from THAT?" And while they're here they plant a little knowledge and possibly do a little genetic manipulation before taking off.
As for Roswell, well, **** happens.
On the other hand, they may have originated in another galaxy and we might just be their liver farm for their pate de foie gras and they don't want to harvest too much at once because it would drive the price down.
BTW, I LOVE pate de foie gras. I don't, however, want to be it.
Thats how ya do it.
ITS A BIG ONE LIZABATH I'M COMIN TA JOIN YA!!!
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