Dinosaur Archeology
We humans have walked upright on this planet for 6 million years. About 90,000 years ago we learned how to use tools. And then, only 12,000 years ago, we became farmers, grew our food instead of hunting it and developed towns and cities, nation states and countries. Civilization, on a planet that’s 4 and a half billion years old, is fairly short-lived, although most of us homo sapiens think of it as fairly permanent, all of us crowns of creation, made in God’s image. Took Her awhile to get around to us, but now that we’re here, probably forever, right?
But if something happened to our species, god forbid, and in some distant future another civilization rose from the ashes, would they even know we were here once? Or put another way, if a civilization preceded this one, maybe before the dinosaurs, how would we know? The fossil records? Planet Earth is a churning waring blender, continents in movement, mountains forming and disappearing, oceans rising and falling, the climate in constant flux with or without human intervention. Those dinosaur prints archeologists find represent a minute record of life on this planet. Even in our lifetime entire civilizations disappear beneath the jungles — imagine millions of lifetimes, billions even.
You think maybe the Empire State Building will be the clue to past cultures? You think steel and concrete are forever? Better think again. If aliens landed on this third planet from our sun and set up shop, managed to make this their home for a few million years then died or immigrated elsewhere, how would you know? Not like you could go down to the salvage yards and find rusting spaceships to prove there were folks here before us. Even nuclear waste has a limited half-life. Nothing is permanent, not even us. Suns burn out, God herself gets tired, and all us infinitely egotistical humans, well, maybe we should get over ourselves. The dinosaurs thought they were pretty hot shit too….
Tags: Alien Civilization, Aliens on Earth Before Us, Life on Earth