with the help of some crazy scientists who made the apes clever?
2006-10-23 21:14:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
that's what it says in French writer Pierre Boulle "Planet of the Apes" (1963)
none of the films have been faithful to the book
here is what happens in the book (warning: SPOILERS):
- a human expedition travels through space to a planet in the system around the start Betelgeuse (i.e. not the Earth in the future).
- there they find a society of intelligent apes, with human beings reduced to slaves.
- they end up finding out that human beings used to be the dominant species on this planet, and then became so decadent, that apes took their place.
- in the end one of the men, accompanied by a local woman, manage to escape and travel back to Earth. They travel near the speed of light so they come back to the Earth of some distant future. Upon landing they're a bit surprised to see a fairly old looking truck driving towards the rocket. Out of the truck comes... an ape. So they leave, feeling that they've got no home left
- the man writes all this story down, and puts the papers in a bottle, and sends the bottle out in space
- in some distant future (where the story begins in the book, actually), two space travellers, in a very sophisticated spaceship using a solar sail, find the bottle. Read the story. And then we find out they're apes. And they wonder whether they want to believe that story of intelligent human beings.
2006-10-24 00:05:47 · answer #1 · answered by AntoineBachmann 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in science fiction. While other apes than Homo Sapiens have evolutionary potential for reaching a stadium where they can form a culture, too, first one would have to create a slave population of apes.
Whether scientists who "uplift" apes are crazy is another question. Right now there is no demand for expensively created intelligent apes, with humans in overabundance.
Science fiction writers have tackled such scenarios, starting with the movie (and subsequent novels) "Planet of the Apes", or David Brin's "Uplift" novels, up to Peter Hamilton's "Night's Dawn" trilogy and the accompanying "Confederation Handbook" which details a biotech-construct using chimps as one basic "module". So far that remains as much fiction as artificial gravity, faster than light travel and other science fiction classics.
2006-10-24 04:24:36 · answer #2 · answered by jorganos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since apes share our DNA to about 97 percent,then anything t hat happens to us will happen to them too. The only creatures that can survive almost anything are the cockroaches. Scary huh?????
2006-10-24 04:26:22 · answer #3 · answered by virginia o 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's already begun. You can fool some apes all of the time, and you can fool all apes some of the time, but you simply cannot fool all apes all of the time.
2006-10-24 04:26:00 · answer #4 · answered by Artie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, humans evolved from apes...why would scientists want to reverse evolution?
2006-10-24 04:17:03 · answer #5 · answered by Courage 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably not.
I am more concerned about human clones and robots taking over versus the apes.
2006-10-24 07:51:24 · answer #6 · answered by Agent99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
1. There are not enough of them left to overtake us, and
2. Radiation and pollution affects them just like it does us, so they will die along with us when the bombs start falling.
Cheers
2006-10-24 04:24:42 · answer #7 · answered by Labsci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wasnt that a movie script? planet of the apes?
2006-10-24 04:20:24 · answer #8 · answered by sweetsal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are many other animals that will make it before the apes
but man will not have existed for a long time for it to happen
2006-10-24 04:20:52 · answer #9 · answered by exchange 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
apes are kind of thick
it's chimpanzees that have some intelligence
2006-10-24 04:56:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋