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Friday, January 7, 2011

Blog Post of the Week #6: Humans in Space and Hierarchy

Hierarchy - a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

The hierarchy exists everywhere. From animate to inanimate objects. Mental and Physical. It's everywhere. The point of this though, is that there is a hierarchy in the biosphere. There are levels for everything, like the food chain. At the top of all of  these levels though, are us. Humans. We are the apex predators. The ultimate inhabitants. We top and trump every other animal before us. We are number one.

Yes, I love this picture.
Now, 

We are number one today. Tomorrow? I don't know, that's another discussion. What about before today though? What about (as far as we can tell) before 10,000 years when we "discovered" agriculture and became farmers? What topped those lists then?

Velociraptor
There can't be nothing. There has to be a species at the top, there is no other way to put it. Us modern human beings have only been on this Earth for a few million years, give or take. Pre-Human Hominids have been around much longer, but were not at the top. Sure they could use tools, but they were not as widespread or dominant as the Homo Sapiens. 

Before us? Well if we go back to the time of the dinosaurs, the velociraptor had one, if not the highest brain mass to body ratios but was it the most dominant dinosaur?

As far as we can tell? No.

So what was? The answer is unknown, some would say the obvious Tyrannosaurus Rex, Others would say any one of the numerous species of Sauropods (The long neck giraffe looking dinosaurs). Whatever the answer is, being the most dominant was not due to intelligence. 

What that was? Probably the dinosaurs with the most sheer strength and aggression mixed with high birth rates and survivability of their young. 

Does that make sense though? How can some "dumb" dinosaur rule the Earth? 

It seems to me that the only way to truly dominate the Earth is through intelligence.

always been one in the same
These two ships may have >>>>
So because something had to top the list, then there must be the possibility that Humans have always existed on the Earth, since the Earth could support life at least.






Here is my theory now.

Humans have always dominated and controlled the Earth. 

Why? Here are a couple points that I have been thinking and though out.

1. We are constantly discovering new human remains that are shattering previous records with age and tool use. E.g - The 700,000 year old remains of humans using boats to get to Crete.

2. Can evolution really explain how a 5 foot 9 inch 170 pound hairless monkey evolved from a rodent smaller than my hand? No.

3. Although we have tried and may have succeeded in reproduced "imagined" scenarios in which life started on Earth, we can not be sure that it did infect originate here. Meaning my theory doesn't seem so off now does it? Okay, it might.

Okay, so we have established the possibility that we have always controlled the Earth, so you now ask why aren't we more advanced? 

Well, in the billions and billions of years that we may have dominated the Earth, there have been many drastic changes to it. Land moving, Volcanoes erupting, Ice Ages plaguing  the land. 

If you think about any new age doomsday scenario, they are all the same. Nuclear bombs go off, block out the sun, cause a nuclear winter, humanity is in ruins but has survivors and those survivors attempt to rebuild.
So, a massive volcano erupts, sending the Earth into a one hundred year ice age. Most humans die off, small pockets remain, we rebuild and recover. Boom, another global event, rinse and repeat. 


You might be asking now, if we were sent to the Earth, where is the "mothership"? Well, take a look as NASA's plans with the 100 year spaceship. They propose sending a small colony on a one-way trip to Mars. Perhaps what the space humans did was send out a group of a few thousand humans to Earth, to colonize, populate,  dominate and then eventually do the same to another planet? (e.g Mars?).


When you put all these things together, and combine them with our current plans, situations, and scenarios then it seems all too likely that we were in fact placed on this planet, alone, naked, and primitive.

It must be a coincidence that
 all these boat remains showed up
 in Crete 700,000 years
 before they were invented.
Yeah, that is all it is.
 What we must do now is prepare for our ancestors return. Haha, just kidding. Or am I?

Thanks,
Dillon Wheeler.

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