Ellis Silver - Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence

by

Ellis Silver PhD

Copyright Ellis Silver 2013

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Youve probably heard of the book Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. What you might not have considered is the wider implication of that title: that neither men nor women are from Earth!*

The evidence against human beings originating on planet Earth is overwhelming. Ill demonstrate this below using several examples, though youve undoubtedly suspected it yourself on more than one occasion.

Where are humans actually from? At the end of this short book Ill list the seven most likely candidate stars that our home planet orbits and describe the physical and environmental conditions that most probably exist there so well be able to recognize it when we eventually find it.

(* Men and women arent from Mars or Venus either, but well get to that later.)

If we didnt originate on Earth then how the heck did we get here? The simple truth must be that we were brought here by somebody else. Well have to call them aliens for want of a better term, but I dont want that to put you off. This isnt one of those crazy books about weird-looking aliens; this is a book about humans. And theres a reasonable chance that the aliens look almost exactly like us.

Note: if you can think of a better term than alien Id be pleased to hear from you. Some of the terms that have been suggested include space travelers or space dwellers, fellow galaxians, or extra-solar hominids. Or how about Milky Wayliens as suggested by my friend Dave Haslett?

Why would these aliens decide to bring us here? Perhaps they thought the Earth lacked a dominant species and felt the need to give it one. Perhaps we were brought here as a natural predator to reduce the numbers of another species that was getting out of control much as we might introduce ladybugs to a new environment in order to control aphids. Weve driven plenty of species to extinction since we arrived, so its very likely that this worked. However, I very much doubt that the aliens ever envisaged we would take over the planet to the degree that we have.

Perhaps theyll be back one day soon, bringing with them another species to cull our own numbers to a more sustainable level. They might simply bring a virus, of course. In fact they might have attempted this course of action several times throughout our recorded history hence the numerous plagues, and viruses such as AIDS and SARS which apparently sprang out of nowhere.

Note: at the end of this book Ive given details of some alternative hypotheses about how we got here. Im concentrating on the brought here by aliens hypothesis in this book, since thats the one I believe in most strongly. But there are good cases for some of the others too, particularly the gene-splicing one, which combines the DNA of early man with some of the aliens own DNA to create a hybrid species: modern man.

Much is made of the fact that our radio and television broadcasts have been radiating from Earth for almost a century. This is undeniably true. But if this is the case then why arent these signals also radiating from other highly developed planets? If they were then we would easily be able to detect them.

The answer of course is that such transmissions exist for only a brief period in a planets history. Here on Earth they are unlikely to exist for more than another decade or two. We are rapidly reaching the point where all such broadcasts will be via cable, internet or low-power wireless signals that extend no more than a mile or so from the nearest radio mast. These signals certainly wont be broadcast into space, and they will almost certainly be undetectable from outside our atmosphere. So as far as radio emissions are concerned, the Earth will appear to go dark within the next generation, while life on the planet continues.

If scientific progress runs at the same rate on other planets, and if theyve developed a few decades ahead of us, they wont be emitting any radio signals at all by now. Their radio era will have ended and it will be impossible for us to detect them by listening out for their radio signals. They might not have had a radio era at all, of course. They might have stuck with cables and low-power wireless, and skipped the high-power broadcasts completely. Or perhaps they used some other form of communications technology: infra red, light (e.g. lasers and fiber optics), microwaves, or something else that we dont even know about.

Our only real hope of spotting them is if theyre broadcasting radio signals into space deliberately because they want to be found by highly developed species on other planets. Since we havent spotted any so far, it seems that none of the species on nearby planets is currently doing this. If theyre there, they dont want us to know about it. We know with near certainty that they are out there somewhere, because if they werent then we wouldnt be living here on Earth in an environment that clearly isnt our natural one.

(Please check the bibliography and recommended reading section at the back of the book for more information about each of these.)

This is the interesting factor that led to this book being written. I was walking along the street, turned the corner, and was hit full in the face by the Suns mighty glare. Total white-out I couldnt see a thing. I had to shield my eyes with my hands and hurry to the next corner, while blindly stumbling along hoping I wouldnt hit anything. When I reached shade and my vision returned, I looked up at the sky and saw the birds flying around perfectly happily in all directions. They werent crashing into buildings and trees yelling Holy s**t, my eyes! I cant see a f***ing thing!

Then I remembered a time when I was driving along a country road one night and I came upon a rabbit (or it may have been a small deer it was a long time ago). It stood there in the middle of the road, in the full glare of my headlights, and it didnt even blink. If that had been me in the road and Id gone from total darkness to full-beam headlights shining directly into my eyes, Id have yelled Holy s**t, my eyes! I cant see a f***ing thing! and scampered away into the forest crying for my mother, probably. But our little rabbit/deer friend wasnt bothered in the slightest. After a few seconds pretending to be a statue it turned away quite casually and hopped off into a field perfectly happily. Blinded by the light, it was not.

These creatures are native to Earth and have had millions of years to adapt to living here, so its not surprising that they can cope so well. What is surprising is that we humans supposedly the most advanced species on the planet cant cope. What the heck has gone wrong?

According to the theory of evolution we evolved from creatures like these (the ancestors of todays birds and rabbits) millions and millions of years ago. Chances are they were able to cope with living here way back then too. Which means that