Greetings, We Are Your Leaders - Ancient Astronauts

Greetings, We Are Your Leaders
By Greg Fish
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Here's an interesting idea. Humans weren't created by a divine being to tend the Garden of Eden. They didn't evolve either. Instead, they were assembled from raw organic materials in test-tube like jars of alien astronauts who called themselves the Anunnaki. Old, technologically savvy and in need of a new place to live after their home world began to die, they came to Earth and built the human race as a workforce. Where was their home? It was a planet known as Nibiru and it was the tenth (or rather ninth by today's definition) planet of our solar system.

A theory about aliens that come from our own solar system immediately makes it sound more plausible. Traveling between stars is a very difficult, lengthy and very energy intensive process. By contrast, traveling between planets is a breeze. We do it all the time. The Anunnaki just had to build a big enough spacecraft, aim it towards the Earth, give it a good initial boost and wait a few years until they arrive. Of course there are the problems of how a planet that's supposed to be located in the Kupier Belt could be home to an intelligent species and how an alien life form could survive on Earth...

The Kuiper Belt is full of spherical objects like Pluto, Sedna, Eris, Orcus, Ixion, Varuna and possibly a few tens of thousands of others. But they're too small to hold on to significant atmospheres, too far out to feel the warmth of the sun (the sun is just another pinpoint of light to them) and far too cold to have any life on them. There's a small sliver of a chance that one of these planetoids could be caught in a gravitational tug of war and kneaded until its core turned white hot and created a small ocean under kilometers of ice. These conditions could allow some extremely hearty organisms to eke out a living but they would be far too harsh to allow more complex life to develop. If bacteria barely have a chance, how do the complex, almost human like Anunnaki have even the ghost of a prayer?

This is not to mention that if they evolved on a small sphere, their bodies could collapse in the same accordion style as Wiley Coyote being smashed into a cliff the instant they felt the full brunt of our gravity. While we're used to thinking of life on Earth as comfortable and just right, for an extraterrestrial creature our world is Hell incarnate. Our gravity is too little or too much. Our air is toxic. Oxygen is after all, a very flammable and corrosive substance. Just look what it does to metal. Our microscopic fauna is probably lethal as well. H.G. Wells was definitely not far off the mark when he wrote War of the Worlds. In fact, he seemed to understand how an alien may fare on our world far better than Erich Von Däniken or Zecharia Sitchin.

Earth would be a terrible home for the Anunnaki or any species that didn't evolve on a planet with a 1G gravity and an air composed of oxygen and nitrogen. Even the most intelligent alien astronauts would have to invest so much into being able to exist on a planet so unlike theirs, it casts doubt on whether they would even choose Earth, much less spend thousands of years here, create a new species and build countless monuments for their arcane purposes.

Ah yes, the mysterious ancient monument business. Going to other worlds and leaving a mark on them is something we would do because that's our culture. Aliens might view the very idea of planting a flag on the Moon and leaving our junk there as a blasphemous defacement. Just because aliens decided to come to Earth and set up shop here, doesn't mean they'll leave anything grand or enigmatic behind. We'd just like them to so we can have both proof of intelligent life in the vastness of space and an established link to them over the millennia.

To be open-minded, I have to say that we may never know whether an intelligent alien species ever visited the ancient or even primeval Earth. One day we may encounter an extraterrestrial civilization that says: "oh, you're from Earth? Isn't that funny, we were out that way about 45,000 years ago." But the idea of an intelligent alien species that evolved on the frozen outer edges of this solar system colonizing our world as recently as a few thousand years ago is just so unlikely and contrarian to what we've observed over the last century about planets and living things that we have a much better shot at finding the evidence for ancient astronauts via SETI than under our feet.