Well, Donna,
so you're here, too - I wonder if we should keep meeting this way...
At the pace technique is developing, it's not wise to rule out visitors from
our future, but I still regard the past as being the most likely origin of
both the aliens and us. And what you are presenting as an additional
possibility is in fact exactly what I was saying - you only push it further
back, which doesn't change anything - if it happened 10 000 or 10 billion
years ago is of no fundamental importance.
So let's consider the future, after all...
The pictures, fake or not, I have seen, show thin, greyish creatures with 3
or 4 long fingers, very small or no mouths and noses, proportionally big,
bald heads, and enormous eyes with no white or iris, i.e. looking like great
pupils, nothing more. And as you suggest, that 'model' would be the result
of what we are changing our environment into: air so polluted as to
permanently reduce the sunlight, a life where at first you don't have to
move around anymore (everything needing muscle is done by machines), and
where, eventually, the ozon layer is destroyed so you simply CAN'T go
outside if you want to live. Controlling all you need from a computer
terminal, the eyes and a couple of fingers is all you will still be using
(most people only use 2 or 3 fingers on each hand for that). The muscles and
organs you don't need will degenerate, and living all your life in
artificial light and an even, airconditioned climate, will make your skin
color fade - also, the skin's blood vessels, now needed to stabilize your
body temperature, will not be needed for that purpose, and thus shrink and
disappear. So in the future, we will most likely get to look just like "the
greys".
Agreeing on that, still another possible scenario practically forces itself
upon us: comparing the time elapsed since life became at all possible on
this planet, and the time since Man 'climbed down from the trees', the rise
and fall of mankind may have occured several times in the past, so "the
greys" may well be the last survivors of a humanoid species that 'came,
goofed, and crashed' long before our time. In other words, the 'visitors'
might in fact be inhabitants of the Earth, just like us, but unable to
survive in a nature that has restored itself, demanding of those who want to
live in it physical abilities long lost by the greys. Who, consequently,
would have had to dwell in man-made surroundings, protected from the real
world, and later also hidden from the new, apelike Man. If you're not fit
for a life on the planet, why be on it at all? You might as well stay in
your spacecrafts, supporting your feeble life artificially. Those who
survived may have decided, that their fate should not be allowed to repeat
itself, and so they may have stayed in the background, manipulating and
monitoring to give the human life-form another chance - a chance to choose
the right way where they went wrong. By interferring if needed, but as
little as possible, as life adapted to the existing surroundings is the only
lasting alternative.
What do you say - plausible enough?
- chris
herzack at kolumbus.fi
