Unashameably stolen from another forum.
165 million years later at the end of the Cretaceous Period, something happened, something we don't know 100% but we think is a meteor and it wiped them all out. At the time, dinosaurs were kind of roaming around, eating plants and each other. As the dominant species on planet earth, they managed to get through 165 million years without really changing or inventing anything. It then took 64.8 million years for man to appear, with "adam and eve" allegedly being on earth 209,000 years ago. This is a science claim by the way and still not 100% clear; we're really only 100% on man being around 80,000 years ago for sure.
So let's compare the life of dinosaurs to our own existence. In just 80,000 years, we - the human being - have gone from fire, caves, flint and so on to Facebook, Tinder, Capitalism and mass genocide. We are the only conscious species. We have made over 300 species of animals extinct in just 500 years. We are hugely dominant. We're the only species who procreate for 'fun', who have religion, who fight because of it. We see in a certain way, we talk, our vocal cords are unique, we don't understand the brain, we are incredibly uniquely adapted to the environment we're in and are impossibly resourceful. We're talking about impossible timeframes in the grand scheme of the world; to go from no technology to "mobiles for everyone" and over 1bn users of Facebook in less than a decade.
The cycle of events that had to happen for man to live/thrive on this planet are so deliberate and specific that for them to occur naturally the odds are literally impossible. It's statistically more likely that this planet exists with many others like it, and life makes its' way there than for life to be born out of the planet itself. So I put it to you, sirs, that WE are the aliens. We have spread out from our home planet(s) and found Earth to keep our species going. We are following the same path - exhausting resource, threatening life, pushing boundaries to find new planets to support our habitation. Essentially the Matrix was right - not from the A.I. aspect of life, but from the idea that we are in fact a galactic "virus" (quoting Mr. Smith).
An interesting take. Although I'm not fully sure how we'd manage to get here? Unless there's another race dropping humans off everywhere.
Far right hand side, just behind the road sign next to the fence. To the right of the right tower.
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