solderjunkie
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For me the most paranormal thing in existence is sitting there in plain sight - megalithic structures. The fact the largest and most durable structures made by man in our entire history were supposedly made by primitive peoples makes no sense. I have a hypothesis, albeit one with many holes, I'm curious to hear what you think.
Firstly, I am including pyramids writ large and all structures which defy conventional explanations in general in this, I do not for a moment believe the Egyptians built most of the pyramids, nor the Aztecs, nor the Incas and so on. I'm also including lesser known structures such as the foundation of the Parthenon and things such as the ancient canal builders - all of it.
I posit that the era we are in, the industrial era, is a very brief part of the process we are all a part of and the explanation of our existence is better understood as a 'rebound' from catastrophe. Humans are afflicted with tremendous amounts of disease, our existence is defined by us trying to adapt the environment to our needs, we're driven by reproduction and fear - all of this, viewed in my context is evidence of a very different and more ancient past. Why?.
Well, lets imagine that our origins stretch back much farther than we currently believe. Imagine our ancient relatives were highly advanced - how would they live and what would they leave behind and why?.
Firstly, an advanced species would probably gain control of their genome and adapt themselves to their environment - not the other way around, they would do this because its efficient and logical to do so.
Secondly, an advanced species would probably not have a very high reproductive drive because they would not reproduce willy nilly - especially not if they were very long lived with a very long maturation time.
Thirdly, an advanced species would not destroy it's environment.
I imagine the human ancestor as a long, long lived creature that was much more ruggedly built, much more intelligent and whose products would be highly biodegradable, if not entirely organic in nature.
I posit that the environment of these ancients was itself very different. There are some things which do not translate well through time, one of them being gravity. There is a formula which dictates the largest size of land animal that could exist without diminishing returns to locomotion today and it's calculated that an elephant is roughly the upper limit. With our present gravity creatures of the ancient and mid-ancient past would probably not survive - not even if they breathed pure oxygen. I won't go deeply into this, but suffice to say, I theorize gravity was much lower in the ancient past and it is purely due to this that megalithic structures were even possible.
I imagine there is some connection between this lesser gravity and and species that seem to defy it.
Why no bones? We have almost no bones of neanderthals and, considering the age of the earth that we know of, very few skeletons of anything. Without even being conspiratorial, it's not shocking there are no remains of ancient humans. Imagine if there were, say, 50,000 humans alive on the entire planet 300,000 years ago, it isn't shocking we don't have remains.
Another aspect of this that I like to ponder is biodiversity itself and how it seems as if there are eras or epochs of enormous biodiversification and other eras of very little, it seems to me this would overlap with environmental changes happening rather rapidly.
This advanced race was, for one reason or another, wiped out - almost - with us being a distant relative, plagued with genetic disease with a scant understanding of our own unique natural drives which seem to be those of a creature whose still reeling from almost being wiped out.
What do you guys think? I'm curious to hear all of your thoughts, criticisms and input.
Thank you for reading.
Firstly, I am including pyramids writ large and all structures which defy conventional explanations in general in this, I do not for a moment believe the Egyptians built most of the pyramids, nor the Aztecs, nor the Incas and so on. I'm also including lesser known structures such as the foundation of the Parthenon and things such as the ancient canal builders - all of it.
I posit that the era we are in, the industrial era, is a very brief part of the process we are all a part of and the explanation of our existence is better understood as a 'rebound' from catastrophe. Humans are afflicted with tremendous amounts of disease, our existence is defined by us trying to adapt the environment to our needs, we're driven by reproduction and fear - all of this, viewed in my context is evidence of a very different and more ancient past. Why?.
Well, lets imagine that our origins stretch back much farther than we currently believe. Imagine our ancient relatives were highly advanced - how would they live and what would they leave behind and why?.
Firstly, an advanced species would probably gain control of their genome and adapt themselves to their environment - not the other way around, they would do this because its efficient and logical to do so.
Secondly, an advanced species would probably not have a very high reproductive drive because they would not reproduce willy nilly - especially not if they were very long lived with a very long maturation time.
Thirdly, an advanced species would not destroy it's environment.
I imagine the human ancestor as a long, long lived creature that was much more ruggedly built, much more intelligent and whose products would be highly biodegradable, if not entirely organic in nature.
I posit that the environment of these ancients was itself very different. There are some things which do not translate well through time, one of them being gravity. There is a formula which dictates the largest size of land animal that could exist without diminishing returns to locomotion today and it's calculated that an elephant is roughly the upper limit. With our present gravity creatures of the ancient and mid-ancient past would probably not survive - not even if they breathed pure oxygen. I won't go deeply into this, but suffice to say, I theorize gravity was much lower in the ancient past and it is purely due to this that megalithic structures were even possible.
I imagine there is some connection between this lesser gravity and and species that seem to defy it.
Why no bones? We have almost no bones of neanderthals and, considering the age of the earth that we know of, very few skeletons of anything. Without even being conspiratorial, it's not shocking there are no remains of ancient humans. Imagine if there were, say, 50,000 humans alive on the entire planet 300,000 years ago, it isn't shocking we don't have remains.
Another aspect of this that I like to ponder is biodiversity itself and how it seems as if there are eras or epochs of enormous biodiversification and other eras of very little, it seems to me this would overlap with environmental changes happening rather rapidly.
This advanced race was, for one reason or another, wiped out - almost - with us being a distant relative, plagued with genetic disease with a scant understanding of our own unique natural drives which seem to be those of a creature whose still reeling from almost being wiped out.
What do you guys think? I'm curious to hear all of your thoughts, criticisms and input.
Thank you for reading.