Applying a primer by looking at nature for the key to our current situation.
Take a look at honey bees. They spend their lives working to produce honey. Some of the honey they produce they use themselves while the surplus is put into storage. Mankind made use of the surplus honey by harnessing the working power of the bees to produce honey for them with little human intervention.
Taking a look at all life on earth, humans are the only animals in earth’s ecosystem that DO NOT FIT into the natural synergy of how NATURE stays in proper equilibrium. Humans are, for lack of a better word, acting as a foreign body or virus on the planet.
Now picture this. Mankind is in the planning stages to send a manned mission to Mars. As crude as we are, when we accomplish that goal, we will be the ALIENS to whatever life forms are on Mars. If we as humans can be ALIENS to life forms on another planet, it’s not a big leap to assume there are likely life forms elsewhere in the universe more advanced than us. History has shown, although mankind likes to think everything revolves around them and planet earth, time and scientific fact has proven it does not.
- The earth is not FLAT – once widely believed
- The sun DOES NOT travel around the earth – once widely believed
- The earth is not the CENTRE of the universe – once widely believed
- The earth is NOT the only planet circling a sun in the universe – once widely believed
- Out of billions upon billions of suns (stars) in the billions of universes out there in space unknown, the earth is the one and only planet with life forms on it - currently widely believed (but highly improbable)
Now imagine we, as humans, travel to another planet with indigenous life on it. Assuming it is a virgin planet, not yet altered by foreign ALIEN influences, and the life forms on the planet are all functioning in an ecosystem that is in perfect equilibrium.
How would we approach the situation? Likely we would observe and monitor it as a scientific experiment. If we planned, at some point, to manipulate the indigenous life on the newly discovered planet, like we did with the bees on our planet, for our own benefit, we likely would have to do some experimenting first to see what works best. If none of the indigenous life were equipped to do the work we wanted done on the planet, we might have to genetically manipulate and create the work horses we want from the most appropriate indigenous life candidate from the planet. The candidate maybe from an indigenous animal with hands, fingers and legs but lacking the mental capacity to learn the work horse skills we desire of them.
Bees are our work horses for producing honey on earth in a completely autonomous environment. Since they are unaware of what we are benefiting from them and they happily do their thing, is our exploitation of them harmful? If the same thing could be achieved on another planet using some sort of work horse, (natural or biologically altered), the work horse might be just as happy doing his thing and at the same time help us as well in some way. As an example: like in the mass production of food stuffs in a completely autonomous environment.
To monitor the activities of the various work horses we create over time, it might be appropriate to color code the new work horse creation’s to monitor which group is doing what and how they are performing, etc. Much like how our lab experiments are run today on earth, just on a planetary scale.
Applying these loosely postulated ideas to earth in reverse, we on planet earth could be just “happily doing our own thing” and be a completely autonomous experiment of a foreign ALIEN culture and not even be aware of it.
