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Abductions
Kidnapped by Space Aliens
Explorers are visiting us from other worlds.
- and some of us have been taken aboard their ships - more and more people claim to have been abducted by aliens. Humans are being physically removed from their beds, from their cars, from their planet.
~ the reasons ranging from simple curiosity, to the long term artificial evolution of our species. In any case, for all the highly ridiculed claims, there seems to be nothing we can do about it at all. One abductee found the unique and bold opportunity to ask an alien, "why are you doing this to us?"
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We Make Great Pets 
Aliens from other planets, coming here, would be higly advanced; higly evolved.
So far along might they be, so ancient their race: that their dogs, their bunnies, might be more sentient than us.
This seems to be the case, judging by stories of various alien species encountered:
the small Grays seem subservient to large, menacing (Praying Mantis resembling), super-insects from outer space.
But what if these species evolved on the same planet - or perhaps the elder seeded the younger, even in another system - or even the other way around?
Who knows? It's a big Universe.
There are over 100 star systems within only 20 light years, thousands within 100 - like a string of islands, sometimes spread out, sometimes clustered together - but it's a very Local Neighborhood, a tiny dot in our vast galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy is a mostly flat, spiral disc over 100,000 light years across, bulging in the middle to 20,000 In our galaxy alone, estimates range from 100 billion to 10 trillion stars. Even the most conservative of scientists allow that life, in some form, must be prevalent in each of them. Given the age of the galaxy, (our sun is a third generation star), the existence of a space based society is a certainty, even in our Local Neighborhood.
Our development (as a species, as a society) has taken many twists and turns - even in just the last several thousand years, (of which we are most sure): we're just waking up. Technology, culture, spirituality, economics; humans are toddlers, and we're making things up as we go along. There is no certainty that any other species evolved along the same lines. Maybe, on their planet, radio was not viable as a means of communication. Access to heavier elements would take their society in an entirely different direction - as it would be based on that foundation. If superconductors are common on Rigel 12, we're no match for 'em. Imagine an alien race, say a couple thousand years ahead of us, just venturing out into the Local Neighborhood - and the first sentiently inhabited planet they come across is using radio, TV, and all kinds of things they weren't even looking into until they started living substantially outside their home system. What would they make of us? What would we make of headhunters with exquisite wine and ball point pens? Or, on the other hand, we could be hamsters. There's word the Reptilians are menacing - holding lesser species (like us) on a similar level to prey. What if there were hundreds of species, just within local reach, all with different upbringings, different motivations - each with their different place in a vast, complex, alien society? One learns to find one's place. If the Alien Phenomenon is related to Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, etc; it's a parent (or of an elder generation). But Alien Abductions is what makes it all real - brings it all home, ties it all together - gives a meaning to the mystery. What could the aliens want with a cow's reproductive organs, eyes, tongue, every last drop of blood (and a few other things) - but nothing else - and what could they want with us? And what are Crop Circles all about? Are they universal numerals for species who have no practical or informal translation protocol? If the messages are intended for anyone down here, whoever they are, perhaps they're wise to not talk about it. What if the presence of one alien species brought us (and our humble little world) to the attention of another one, yet even more highly evolved? "What could they be so interested in?" they might ask themselves while passing by, or even just looking from home. Maybe they already know. It's hard to imagine sometimes, but the sheer scope of intelligence one must expect from any alien species able to bridge the gap between stars - well, it boggles the mind. Or perhaps the leap in technology isn't really so very far off after all. The trick is, once we get out there, will we be able to deal with the neighbors? What will we have to barter with?
Also, our tiny blue world, among the infinite wonders of interstellar nature, seems to have a deadly cycle to it - deadly to us, anyways. Upon further inquiry, a regular cycle of Ice Ages and Global Cataclysims appears to be wiping Earth's face periodically clean - a fresh, blank page to start over. It looks like we'll make it this time, though. We seem to have been evolved enough, at the last stroke of twelve, to have been able to tell time; enough to plant crops and start a civilization that has a chance this time - even if our progress hastens the end a bit. |
Our evolution is dependant on many factors.
For one thing, survival.
If we don't make it off this rock before another dinosaur killing asteroid comes right this way, we're done for.
We'd better hope the aliens saved some of our DNA to deposit on some other, safer world somewhere.
Maybe they've done that anyway - without our permission.
Maybe they felt they didn't need it.
~ jumpoint to ~ Ancient Civilizations |
~ jumpoint to ~ Cryptozoology - Bigfoot |
But then again, there is that pesky Missing Link.
We do not have solid evidence that Humans evolved entirely on this planet.
Oh, it looks the case - there's a definite dotted line, from primordial slime, in our direction
- but the earliest primitives had brains just as big as ours.
Could they have been throwbacks - stranded or offshoots from an earlier try at it?
From monkeys to Australopithecus, we're all primates
- but is it really a string of gradual incremental improvements?
How could it be a billion years from apes licking sticks to fish for ants, to building a fire to cook bison;
and then only a scant several thousand more to the moon?
What's the average time it takes for a species to make it out into space
- and what's the survival rate beyond that?
On this world, for us, more protein meant bigger brains. But other worlds have different conditions - different ecosystems, different nutritional needs. There could be electricity in the air, so to speak. We can only guess what ants or dolphins talk about - or for that matter, flowers. There is no solid evidence of Human civilizations on this world, superior to ours. Or is there? Nothing on our level, nothing we would recognize. Off world, that's a different story. The Face on Mars is the most popular, and ridiculous sounding enough to be permanently dismissed by nearly everyone. But there are pyramids near the Face - a complex collection - all arranged precisely on angles based on math so elegant and complex that the only thing we have even touching on it is called Sacred Geometry - yes, "Sacred Geometry" - by the ancient-most sources; and rarely in use today. We've taken another path. But perhaps that's a road which, earlier in our history, we took beyond the temples and scrolls - to Mars and beyond, but then something happened: no one lives there any more, as far as we can tell. Mars is a world which we know for sure once looked and behaved very much like ours. Even after so great a change, we are able to dream that we can make it habitable one day - that's how similar it is - and that's how easy it is, that we can figure that out, this early on. We've barely been off the planet and "terraforming" is a word. Even Venus has a few think tanks devoted to it.
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~ jumpoint to ~ The Face on Mars |
Well, we've made it this far - do we have a future?
In all probability: if we manage to develop beyond violence and greed, or find a way to make that work for us.
And maybe that sort of thing is an integral part of whatever society is currently looking down on us.
Whatever works.
The important thing is, space isn't our native environment - we will have to adapt to that eventually. And, we will have to adapt to the politics of whatever society's currently dominant in our Local Neighborhood. One hopes there's a friendly Federation: with a nice, friendly Prime Directive - but chances are not. All the evidence in so far suggests we are not respected as rulers of our own destiny, worthy of consent before being plucked from our bedrooms and up into the mothership. But then again, it sure seems like if they wanted to destroy us, they could very efficiently, anytime they wanted to. |
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Genetic Curriculum
As a species becomes increasingly sentient, that trait becomes a part of their natural identity
- and an important factor in their survival, as intelligence begins to substitute for adaptability.
As they begin to voyage beyond their natural ecosystem (for example: out into space and on other planets);
physically, they will encounter widely variant conditions which will cause them to use their intelligence and technology
if they are to continue existence in that environment:
Magnetism, gravity, radiation, atmospheric pressure, microscopic lifeforms
- things we take for granted as constants here on Earth
- our domesticity will have to be tapered with wisdom if we are to make such a migration, ourselves.
One running theme in the abduction phenomenon: reports from abductees of scientific experiments - especially of our reproductive systems; mass cloning projects; and being treated like a specimen in the wild - and from ther perspective, perhaps we are. The first places we visit, beyond the moon and Mars: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the Gas Giants - Titan (a moon of Saturn) and for that matter, Venus all have thick, complex, intense atmospheres which arguably have all the components for life. What odd beings might exist under such extreme conditions? Even if they have no physical way of leaving their worlds, their technology would seem like magic to us - perhaps masters of magnetism, and pressure: causing winds and lightning at the merest natural thought. And these would be their chosen medium of communication. Maybe they would notice out radio and television, but perhaps it would seem like gibberish, even hostile. But the most promising is Europa, the second of four major moons of Jupiter: an ocean of liquid water, hundreds of miles deep, shielded from space by a layer of ice several miles thick. When we get out that far, if we discover any sea creatures - especially if any are as intelligent as whales or dolphins - we will surely want to learn everything we possibly can about them. There are a handful of similar stars within arm's reach of us - and chances are, planets similar to ours evolved around them as well. If there isn't someone already there, we may be able to make claim to them. But any extra-solar colonization by humans will be very far off in the future - perhaps many thousands of years - unless we get some help from the neighbors. What would be the baseline qualification for contact? In Star Trek, the Prime Directive is in place until a planet reaches Light Speed. In the movie Contact, a strong enough television signal was all it took - a message was sent back, at the speed of light, arriving here forty years after it was transmitted. But as far as Extra Terrestrials are concerned, we are likely considered a hostile planet: our chief activity being tribal warfare. In many ways, we may remind them of themselves; or even other more infamous races which have long killed themselves off. They may be waiting to see what happens first. We could be teetering on the edge of an evolutionary curve. Too much technology too soon, before we've developed the social skills to avoid annhilation. Or, perhaps facism works for some - some of the abductees' experiences are very reminiscent of Nazi death camps. A "Master Race" could have overpowered its entire world, thereby forever losing some genetic edge and they've come here to look for it in us. |
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Betty and Barney Hill
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