in the theory this fellow speculated that human life from 25-30 thousand could have been abducted and transplanted on another planet with a environment close to earth's with just a slight variation of 1.27 G's rather than 1.0 G of earth's and still survive in this new and different environment with out much of a physical change in there physiology other than a change of mass in the bones and solf tissues, he also suggested that because 25-30 thousand there was a ice-age and if the planet that they where transplanted to had a less hostile environmet, that they might already have a more advanced culture than us. I think the idea sounds like science fiction but a 100 years ago idea's like heavier than air flying machines were thought to be fiction as well, so my question is could something like this have happened and we would never have known about it?
i was reading about the Fermi Paradox and it got me to wondering if maybe it could have happened.
2006-12-07 02:11:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The difficult part is whether it could have happened. If it did, I don't think there'd be much chance of our knowing about it. However, the odds of encountering an alien culture capable of transplanting so many people and the odds of finding a planet close enough to earth that you could just drop Stone Age humans there and expect them to survive are both so low that I think this is science fiction.
2006-12-07 02:17:42 · answer #1 · answered by Amy F 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Anyone can make up a theory!!! As long as the presumptions are logical, I can come up with a similar theory. The thing is, both theories would be something that nobody could prove or begin to prove.
I think you're worrying about things that with about $4 can get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
I'm not trying to be mean, but there are much more important things you could be worrying about and finding solutions for like, "What happens if global warming turns Nashville, TN into beach front property?"
2006-12-07 02:26:32 · answer #2 · answered by Lemar J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human beings evolved as an opportunist species capable of fully exploiting their surroundings. They learned how to use their Earthly environments' organic and inorganic materials to make tools, fire, and food through the long accumulation of knowledge about these things through language and culture. While our technological skills have now evolved sufficiently that we could presently exploit extra-terrestrial environments, that was not true of Paleolithic peoples.
Their skills would have given them quite explicitly the technology to exploit where they were from. Transported to a new world, they would not have found the kind of rocks they were used to making tools with, the prey species they knew how to hunt, or the plant species they knew how to harvest. What could they safely hunt? What vegetational forms would be safe to eat? Would there even be life analogous to Earthly multi-cellular plants on this world?
Unless our hypothetically transplanted humans had a series of alien tour guides and tutors with them, they could not have long survived on an alien world. I think this "theory" must remain in the realm of wildly speculative science fiction for now.
2006-12-07 02:23:58 · answer #3 · answered by evolver 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is on point more than one would dare think. It is known; however, it is not yet known about by the many, is all.
Fact is truly but affect, ever in the process of moving toward obsolescence, whereas fiction is Truth's way of making itself known, through intuitive means and thereby conveyed to the masses in safe and imaginative term to make it palatable or untraumatic to the empirical or disbelieving often hide-bound minded among us, which unfortunately still predominate our world where proof and thought hold sway, that's all.
2006-12-07 12:34:02 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its a good theory. A bit technical and specific but does have merit. Another theory to explain the rapid increase from primitive man to advanced man is the introduction of alien DNA into the primitive man by reproduction or direct DNA change.
2006-12-07 02:39:15 · answer #5 · answered by spils 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No way. If they were advanced more than we are today, 25, 000 years ago, the earth would be littered with 25,000 year old beer cans , HDTV's and Grateful Dead ticket stubs. Some people are just off the deep end.
2006-12-07 03:11:52 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Possible? Sure! Probability? Slim.
2006-12-07 02:21:39 · answer #7 · answered by boots 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋