Here's my outline of why the idea of 'historical astronauts' isn't one which need to be readily dismissed with the aid of students and lecturers with out due consideration to the subsequent.
REASONABLE HYPOTHESIS: There exist technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations nicely in advance of human civilization with the ways and way to boldly go. Whether it is ten or 10000 such ET civilizations is of no effect for the scenario that follows.
FACT: There is not anything within the legal guidelines, standards and relationships of physics that might save you boldly going interstellar area journey.
FACT: The time it would take any person technologically advanced ET civilization to discover, even colonize, the Milky Way Galaxy (our galaxy) at subluminal velocities is however a small fraction of the age of our galaxy.
REASONABLE HYPOTHESIS: Artificially wise probes may be the trail-blazers reporting again to their biological masters (assuming the organic ET entities are in truth nevertheless the masters and no longer the post-organic evolution handover to AI).
REASONABLE HYPOTHESIS: It is far less complicated to boldly pass in case you are a mind-in-the-device than if you have to drag your biological frame alongside for the trip which calls for massive and luxurious life supporting infrastructure.
REASONABLE HYPOTHESIS: The Third Rock from the Sun (Planet Earth) has been cited, logged, catalogued, and tested (perhaps on an ongoing foundation) through one or more of those boldly going technologically superior ET civilizations.
REASONABLE HYPOTHESIS: That we're tremendously not going to had been the (fortunate) generation dwelling throughout the time of the very first discovery of Planet Earth through ET. Probability dictates that such a first discovery took place a long term in the past, perhaps in our distant, even prehistoric beyond, if not even manner earlier than that, however from that moment, however a long way again it became, ET would possibly have then maintained an ongoing presence in our cosmic neck of the woods.
REASONABLE HYPOTHESIS: Planet Earth could maintain a unique hobby to an ETI on the grounds that 1) Planet Earth has a biosphere - a cosmic rarity, and a couple of) the inklings of indigenous wise life stirring.
SPECULATIVE HYPOTHESIS: Planet Earth may also had been considered by means of ET as a giant natural Petri dish and offered ET with a risk to do organic, behavioral and sociological experimentation on a grand scale that targeted on at the least 3 factors: 1) creating an intelligent species through synthetic choice and genetic engineering; 2) transporting the numerous species so created into differing environments to test for survival and adaptability and as a result relative intelligence; and 3) augmenting that survival and adaptableness take a look at with the aid of giving diverse 'gifts' to the evolving species (like fireplace, agriculture, etc.). Most species failed their jogging thru the survival and flexibility maze and went extinct; some did moderately properly, at least for some time (like Homo erectus and the Neanderthals) earlier than going extinct; one species, Homo sapiens is strolling the maze efficaciously - at the least to this point.
FACT: In support of the above speculative speculation, we note the ones oft cited lost civilizations and abandoned settlements and towns. Deserted or deserted towns appear to be a common topic in archaeology and the motives are frequently a long way from being clear reduce and any scholarly explanations normally debatable. There are peoples and cultures and societies who arrive abruptly, apparently out of nowhere, and turn out to be vanishing into apparently skinny air, if not down a Black Hole, sometime in addition on down the music. It's almost as if they'd disembarked out of the ether and lifted off again after having installed a presence, evidence they left behind. The Olmecs are a working example.
FACT: Ancient human mythologies from around the arena have a common subject that a number of the reputedly mythological entities have a humanoid however non-human look like the Cyclopes, various winged humanoid beings (like the Greek goddess Nike or the Egyptian goddess Maat), numerous hybrid beings (just like the Birdmen of Easter Island or the winged guys of ancient Mesopotamia) plus severa non-terrestrial acting existence bureaucracy which are frequently hybrids (including the griffin or the dragon).
FACT: Ancient human mythologies from round the sector, all manner of differing societies and cultures, actually have a commonplace theme of sky gods, celestial/heavenly beings, celebrity humans, and associated.
FACT: The crucial factor here is that these had been now not sightings of sky gods and goddesses at a distance, but up near and private encounters, be it God and Jonah or God and Moses; angels and Abraham; Jesus and his disciples; Zeus and Europa; Paris up towards Hera, Aphrodite and Athena; and so forth. Tales of close encounters which have filtered down from all historic cultures and societies.
FACT: Ancient human mythologies from around the sector have a not unusual theme that these entities have in reality advanced excessive technology, like Thor's hammer; Zeus's thunderbolts; Poseidon's trident; Hades' invisibility helmet; Odin's spear, Hermes' winged footwear, the magic wand of Circe, etc. They also possess aerial cars as stated inside the Bible and in other texts from around the sector.
FACT: There are not any shortages of quite enigmatic historic structures round the world (excepting Australia) that either have 1) no obvious rhyme or cause or recognised purpose for current (like those often big stone balls) and/or 2) would have employed technology we just do not/can't partner with their owners and/or 3) are even attributed by means of their owners to non-human resources (just like the Cyclopean Walls) and/or four) or which have been transported via non-human resources and means (like the ones Easter Island statues that walked by using themselves), or in fashionable over-the-pinnacle systems that required an remarkable amount of time and effort, reputedly manner out of share to the need for them, and as a result subtracting from time available for more looking after more simple desires like food (searching, gathering, tilling the fields), shelter, defense, and making and repairing clothing). I'm questioning right here like the pyramids (Egyptian and Mesoamerican); obelisks, Stonehenge (and lots of other similar megaliths); large statues (Egyptian, Asian, even Easter Island) and different rock carvings; those big earthen mounds of jap North America, etc.
FACT: There are numerous and extensive historical geo-glyphs from around the arena which have been seemingly designed to be preferred and visible for what they are from aerial heights. There are also severa historic constructions that mirror a reasonably restrained number of a number of the admittedly outstanding constellations - The Egyptian trio of pyramids at Giza that mirror Orion's Belt right away involves thoughts. Is this an historic form of worshiping the sky gods?
FACT: The sky gods, and so on. Are normally associated with just a fairly few celestial items or constellations that are repeated time and again as you go from one ancient lifestyle's mythology to any other. Orion's Belt, the Pleiades, and Sirius are celestial items of observe.
FACT: In mythologies in the course of the historic international, humans attribute their creation to the sky/celestial/heavenly gods (plural). If there have been handiest one society so pronouncing this, it can in all likelihood be disregarded, however separate and aside bills quantity within the multi-dozens and then some. Anomaly one is why advent of humanity could be postulated at all by using human beings, until of path those historic cultures had been without a doubt knowledgeable of this truth by way of their creators; and anomaly is that this creation implies some sort of high-tech or advanced form of biotechnologies possessed with the aid of those so-referred to as gods.
FACT: Humans are extensively exclusive from all our different primate ancestors and present cousins in terms of having a complicated way of life (artwork, music, literature, religion, and so on.); a minimum quantity fur (we're the 'bare ape'); a very excessive IQ and evolved brain; a bipedal gait with out gain of a balancing tail; very one-of-a-kind facial features; we come in wonderful breeds (races); we've got a complicated written and verbal language that could cope with abstractions; in addition to other developments that seemingly set us aside like questionable morals and ethics. Whether those differences makes us an apex of introduction is a unique remember, however can all of these differences be effortlessly defined by means of natural choice and Darwinian evolution?
FACT: Universally, historic human mythologies file that the sky gods gave humankind items inside the form of hearth, agriculture as well as a number of different practical technologies. That this is so is unusual in that people don't tend to turn away from taking credit score for their achievements. I can recognize the want to invent the gods with a view to explain (what to you is) the unexplainable, like eclipses, comets, supernovae, thunder and lightning, the rainbow, and so forth. But why invent gods bearing items to give an explanation for your technology and culture you have already got which probably you or your extended family or your ancestors created for themselves. This makes no experience, unless it were clearly authentic of direction. If now not, some thing is screwy someplace.
FACT: Well definitely not universally. The Australian aboriginals, no matter some 50,000 years (deliver or take) of Down Under habitation, provided with ample natural resources, they by no means got here up with the varieties of gifts other cultures attributed to their gods. They by no means came up with writing, the bow and arrow, the wheel, mathematics, permanent settlements with houses or other constructions, engineering, metallurgy, agriculture, maritime capabilities, or whatever else even remotely like nearly each different lifestyle had, not even some thing as basic as pottery. They seemingly practiced no astronomical rituals or had any astronomically related constructions. They did have culture (rock artwork, song, cooking, and so forth.) and that they did have fireplace, however that's not surprising when you consider that herbal bushfires are a commonplace function of the Australian panorama. So at the same time as ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, India, China, the Vikings, the Incas, the Aztecs, the Maya, even the native North American Indians as well as the Polynesians out colonizing the vast Pacific, were strutting their stuff, the Australian aboriginal persisted on and on with just the maximum simple of hunter-gatherer lifestyles. Even whilst Australia changed into 'located' and settled by way of white Europeans, the aboriginals have been still locked into what archaeologists might time period the Stone Age.
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