Could the fact that we don't belong on earth be killing us?

Question

Follow me for a second. this is for a sci-fi thing I am working on.

IF we are not from earth originally (I mean the human race) and a colinizing species, say from Mars or Venus, and we are not suited to the exact radation frequencies that eminate from our planet it slowly kills us. we already know that when we move away from the planet our atomic clock slows, so the further we get away from the planet, the longer we live, so by staying on the planet we are cutting our lifespans considerably. Thoughts?

Answer 1

Which could explain why Old-Testament Biblical figures lived so long, right? I heard a really perplexing question related to this: Why do we get sick? Why aren't we immune to all these bugs...why do we always ill while animals pretty much live out their life spans? Likely because we aren't indigenous to this planet.

My opinion is that the only creatures native to this planet were the dinosaurs. We were placed here, and that concept is NOT heretical by any means.

I think you're on to something regarding the radiation. This planet could be killing us indeed...

Answer 2

We'd obviously have to relocate.
Was our home planet in some sort of distress?
Why did we vacate?

I want to comment to the religious people who answered...

It's a fictional theory... Pretend. Use your imagination. He didn't say anything that disregarded your belief in god... grow up.
NOTICE HOW HE CAPITALIZED THE WORD "IF" and how he said it's a sci-fi thing meaning Science Fiction...
God is an all knowing being, so I'm sure he's smart enough to know that this guy is just having fun with his imagination. If it made god mad then he would be a hipocrit because anger is a sin remember... and so is hipocracy... Do you even think before you speak?
Everybody on here took the question way too seriously!

Answer 3

I myself am a Christian, but not like the other responses, I am sympathetic to your beliefs, even if it is for a science fiction project, and I do notice the FICTION part of the original question. It is up to me to try and convert you with the word that I believe, the true word. OK, on to your question. What if we are from another planet? We are light years away from that planet and since our "clocks" are slowed by immense distances as you put it in your fictional situation, what is to say that we are living far past our "pre-programmed" lifespan on our native planet? We may be living years, or whatever time unit our original planet uses, past our natural end of life. Let us put another idea into this equation. What if we were put here because there was a terrible life ending crisis on our home planet and it was up to one of us "long lifers" to come up with a planet saving solution and return with the solution? Yeah, science FICTION.
Now go out and write the next Star Trek installment.

Answer 4

TOWKA said, "while animals pretty much live out their life spans..."

Excuse me, but our lifespan has almost doubled in the last 100 years (avg in 1900 was just 48, now it's almost 80)...

This is due to incredible advances in medical technology and also due to safety advances in the workplace, on the road, and at home.

100 years ago, there were only 4 traffic fatalities, last year there were over 35,000. This number has been shrinking since the early 90's due to the D.O.T. making rules that require things such as sealt belts, air bags, "crumple zones' in cars, and more. These inventions have increased our lifespan by decreasing injuries and deaths in car crashes.

In the workplace, simple things, such as guards placed over moving belts, safety goggles, glasses, masks, and respirators, or pollution controlling devices at steel mills and factories, didn't exist in 1900. Asbestos did, and was used extensively until lthe late 60's when it was determined to cause cancer and no longer used.

Only 1 out of 40 homes had electricity in 1900 or indoor plumbing. Today, you can't walk 50 feet down the street without seeing something that's powered by electricity. This has enabled life-enabling things such as air purifiers, "Clean" rooms for surgery, Defibrillators for heart attack victims, and much more.

All of these don't even begin to cover the advances in medical breakthroughs, such as treating cancer, and eliminating Turburculosis. Penecillin wasn't discovered until the mid-30's, and is widely used today to treat virus attacks. Smallpox raged all over the planet, and by immunizing the entire globe during the late 50's and mid-60's, that nasty little virus was completely eliminated from tjhe planet, with the exception of a few vials stored ad the CDC in Atlanta for future study. The Russians, also kept some frozen Smallpox, and now it has been learned that some countries that aren't exactly "stable" have acquired this virus from the Ruskies... The only virus we have to fear (and STILL the number 1 killer worldwide) is Malaria. We're still working on that one...

But medicine, by far, is the biggest reason that our lifespan is longer that it was 100 years ago.

*** As to your theory that we came from Venus: well, if you think you can breathe H2SO4 (vaporous form of Sulfuric Acid), or can breathe H2S (Hydrogen Sulfide, or "Rotten Egg" Gas), then I guess you could live on the surface of Venus. That is if you can withstand air pressure that is 92 bars (30 times the pressure found at the bottom of the sea-See the link below...). That intense pressure would crush you like a beer can! If you could get by the gasses and the pressure, then you'd have to deal with temperatures hovering between +450F and +490F or so. Paper burns at +451F.

Mars is also out of the question. The atmosphere is very light, and mostly made up of Carbon Dioxide. When Mars cooled down and became solid, it lost a lot of its ability to hold the atmosphere with gravity because its solid core forced its magnosphere to drift into space, and it has less mass than a hot, liquid core, such as ours or the Sun.***

Yep. Earth is the only place in the neighborhood for the next 4 or 5 light years or so that is capable of sustaining life.

Answer 5

Well except for that lifespan thing, it is a good idea for a science fiction story. I recall learning about the rather elaborate process that is needed to make olives edible and thinking, how in the world did they come up with that? Maybe we are all descended from aliens that colonized Earth thousands of years ago and that process was developed by the scientists in the first colony as a way to make the local vegetation edible.

Answer 6

Maybe.

However, as any species becomes less able to compete, survive, procreate, it is at risk of dying off. That is basic evolution. The trajectory of *all* life on earth appears to be extinction, although some species are on a much slower path (algae, cockroaches). Higher primates don't seem to last long on a geological scale.

"Not belonging" in some ways just paraphrases this idea, in that being ill-suited, or even suboptimally suited, to the environment increases the risk of dying out.

Your "radiation frequencies" theory is too far removed from current science to make for believable science fiction, unless you plan to do *lots* of plot development to make it work. JMO.

Answer 7

Well, I get where you're coming from, but you are mushing your facts a bit. Regardless of how we got here, the time dilation effect still works.
The better part of your process is in the "we don't belong" here part. Just like our bodies try to rid themselves of infecting organisms, the earth may be doing the same with us, for the harm we are causing to it. And that, my friend, may be closer to fact than fiction. But it would make a good story line because it is plausible.

Answer 8

I like the idea it will make a great conspiracy theory type tale (like a certain "code" book). You should have a group of uber scientists who have been working to reactivate an ancient transporter (say Stone Henge) that is known to have brought us here. They are trying to complete the circle to send those of us who wish to go back home to recolonize the planet we left because it is now habitable - or something like that. Hope to see your story soon!

Answer 9

Well, perhaps your right. But how can we get to another planet? The Human race has barely begun to explore Mars. Perhaps we are killing ourselves by killing the Earth?

Answer 10

That would be a great story and is an interesting theory. What bugs me is when other Christians get so defensive when anyone posted something that doesn’t follow their beliefs.