An Alien in an Alien Land
Heinlein was on to something
At the start of the auspicious month of June, let us begin with the famous quote by physicist John B. S. Haldane, “The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.” And let us keep in mind that a “pride” is a clan of female lions dominated by a single male. And while we’re at it, a faggot is a bundle of kindling wood (or a cigarette), a Lesbian is a native of the island of Lesbos, queer means strange or unusual, and gay means to be brightly happy and festive.
With that said, we turn to one of our faithful readers, David, who never fails to follow up every post with a personal note to me, which provide welcome “attaboys” and his own take on the topic du jour, almost all of which include reminders that we are controlled by aliens (the outer space kind), most recently to whit, “Very Good. Again Aliens control our universe and our planet, This information from the minds of men much greater than me. Thanks”
This being Queer Universe month in honor of Dr. Haldane, I thought we’d take a look at this concept.
I was introduced to the idea of human/alien interaction by my university astrophysics professor, Larry Pinsky, back in the mid-1980s. Professor Pinsky was prone to interrupting lectures on occasion to toss out profound challenges to our complacent mental constructs. One of his favorite topics was reciting the litany of data points that implied humans were not of this world.
Among the many points:
Human eyes are ill-adapted to solar radiance and radiation found on Earth, unlike all other surface mammals, despite humans being presumed to have evolved here.
Unlike all other surface mammals, humans have little body hair and our skin is highly sensitive to solar radiation.
Our heads are too big, causing severe pain and injury during childbirth, relative to other mammals.
Our lower backs and knees are susceptible to chronic injury and pain, indicating we are not well suited to carry our own body weight.
Our abdomens are completely exposed with no bones or plates protecting our internal organs.
Pound for pound, humans are significantly weaker and less agile than our nearest genetic cousins, implying devolution.
Human teeth are ill-adapted for our preferred diets.
Removed from visual cues (Sun, Moon), the human circadian clock defaults to a cycle that is 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, and is closer to a Martian day (sol).
Most of our collective efforts are spent modifying our environment, rather than living harmoniously with it, unlike all other mammals.
“Taken together,” Pinsky would say, “Humans are better adapted to Mars than to Earth.” His point was that humans appear to be transplants or modifications better suited to weaker solar radiation and lower gravity, with internal clocks that match Mars, not our current planet.
This is an idea that has stuck with me all these 37 years, and Dr. Pinsky certainly isn’t the only one to have pointed these things out. Panspermia theory has been around for quite a while, and Mars is a common target for the origin of life on Earth, though no one ever addresses why life would arise on Mars before Earth, though I need little convincing that octopi and crinoids are alien creatures.
The copious OOPARTS, ancient myths and legends, strangeness about the Moon, and many other lines of investigation provide a vast landscape for mental play. If one needs to stay a bit closer to familiar culture, Mauro Biglino’s work translating Biblical texts directly from ancient Hebrew, and Paul Wallis’ research will sufficiently blow a gasket or two.
From the Australian aboriginal tales of the Mimih, to the genocidal character of Yahweh to the Mezzo-American pantheons, to the Dogon Sirius cult, the tales of strange creatures fiddling about with humanity, either as teachers or enslavers, are far too numerous and have way too many similarities to be ignored, and certainly not dismissed out of hand.
Having spent 37 years, thanks to Dr. Pinsky, tossing the idea of human origins around in my head, and having read dozens of scholarly tomes on the topic, I am of the opinion that there is no doubt humans are products of tampering by other races of beings, be it transplantation or genetic tinkcering. What I have not decided yet, is whether those beings were native to Earth and far more avanced civilizations, or whether they are genuine alien races from “out there” (or in here in the case of transdimensional beings - the true trannies).
The reason I am on the fence with this point of origin is our own history. We are told by those who get grants to tell us such things, that modern humans appeared about 300,000 years ago, and we’ve built up our current state of advancement - such as it is - primarily in the past 6,000 years of that time span. If we accept the age of Earth as being roughly 4.5 billion years, that offers 15,000 opportunities for civilizations at least as complex as ours to have evolved on this planet, with no reason to dismiss overlap between them (see the Long Skulls). Furthermore, there is no compelling reason why those other races should be human, or even mammalian.
In the past 50 years, we know that scientidiots have spent considerable time fiddling about with the genomes of various creatures, recent Damnpanics not excepted, and we’ve been modifying wild animals and crops through selective breeding for at least 12,000 years. Interestingly, almost all domesticated species appeared roughly at the same time 12,000 years ago, and little more than refinement has occurred since then (aliens?).
To be clear, I have no doubt that scads of other species exist throughout the known Universe, and more throughout the unknown Universe. If they don’t, then as Carl Sagan said in his book Contact, “…it would be a terrible waste of space.” To my way of thinking, life - and specifically self-aware forms - is a natural and inevitable outcome of the Universe’s function.
I do not have personal experience with alien contact, nor have I ever found unassailable evidence of such things happening. There is no particular reason why UFOs and related phenomena do not originate on this planet from parallel and hidden civilizations.
I am of the opinion, based on my own research and thinking, that the Universe - known and unknown - is a single conscious entity, from which we channel our Selves or Minds by virtue of our physiology Our brains, nervous systems and genetic compositions act as transceivers, receiving and broadcasting information for the duration of our physical lives. Some of us are more attuned to this process than others, but we are all inextricably linked to the Network, much like individual nodes on our digital networks.
This topic is massive and far more than I can cram into 5 minutes of your attention span, so let me draw a broad outline of what I think has and is going on.
Humans are the products (I view the three races as separate efforts for different outcomes) of genetic manipulation by more advanced entities. Those entities may have originated here, or elsewhere, or both (Cosmic War theory). The entities that caused us have either died off, moved on, or been driven into hiding by human uprisings. Regardless of origins, we are aspects of a Universal Mind that serves to generate and activate information through us in the physical realm we inhabit.
This may not make David happy, since he is of the opinion that we are currently being manipulated and/or held captive by aliens. I do not rule this view out, but I have insufficient data to prove it one way or another. There is certainly reams of information proving we are being manipulated, but by whom and to what end is a matter of speculation and can be endlessly debated, with everything from secret societies of evil banksters to benevolent alien races all having an equal chance at taking the prize.
No doubt the Truth is queerer than we imagine.
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would it have been easier to genetically manipulate existing primates, or import Martians when that planet was blasted into dusty red? Their northern hemisphere is literally a sea of impact zones.