Paranormalcy, on 21 January 2010 - 08:25 AM, said:
The Ouija group I was a member of had a number of quite unique board pesonalities with identifiable traits that really couldn't be easily mistaken for any one person in the group, but I still don't believe we were ever in contact with any actual entities - I just think group dynamics, both conscious and unconscious, can be a lot more sophisticated than people think.
I have a hard time with the telepathic weapons causing humans to self-destruct because it just sounds like an extreme "external locus of self control", projecting the idea of some nebulous outside force as being responsible for the things our species does, rather than just our species being itself.
That is an apt & succinct summary of this suggestion.
What I can offer, is a set of
testable predictions. The famous Italian Astronomer, Giordiano Bruno, looked at the planets orbiting our Sun, saw other suns across the sky, and said that those stars surely also possessed both planets, some "bearing upon them creatures similar, or even superior, to those upon our human Earth". We may summarize this simply as "
Bruno's Law — If it happens here, it happens everywhere".
According, then, to
Bruno's Law, all of the
ignorance & folly, which will bring about the
doom & demise of our primitive species, since it happens here, has happened everywhere. Thus, it is a (theoretically)
testable prediction, that
our Galaxy is currently littered w/ the ruins & relics of ancient sentient species, who foolishly preceded us into 'self-inflicted' doom & demise.
This says, at the simplest, that our skies should show no signs of sentience, b/c such sentient species previously perished in the past, perhaps many millions of years ago. Upon their planets, all that remains are rubbled ruins, reminiscent of
Life After People (HC) &
Aftermath — Population Zero (NGC).
Thus, these purported predeceased species have probably petrified into fossils by the present period, upon their home planets (presuming said to be Geologically [Planetologically?] Active):
The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
Jan Zalasiewicz
Review [Alibris Books]: Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader one hundred million years into the future, long after the human race became extinct, to explore what will remain of humanity's brief but dramatic sojourn on planet Earth. He tells how geologists in the far future - perhaps an alien species re-discovering Earth - might piece together the history of the planet, and slowly decipher the fact of humanity's existence, activities, and ultimate extinction from the traces we will leave impressed in the rock strata. The Earth After Us takes this novel approach to show how geologists unravel the information in the rocks. As the alien scientists start investigating the strata, what story will they tell of us? What kind of fossils will humans leave behind? What will happen to cities, cars, and plastic cups? How thick a layer will the 'human stratum' be? And will it be obvious which species dominated the planet? It reveals a story of an environmental crisis similar in scale to even earlier mass extinction events, yet puzzlingly different: a crisis where extinctions were accompanied by a bizarre global merry-go-round of organisms and by sharp perturbations of climate. The trail leads finally to the bones of the inhabitants of petrified cities that have lain deep underground for many millions of years. As thought-provoking as it is engaging, this book simultaneously explains both the geological mechanisms that shape our planet, and also offers a perspective on humanity and its actions that may prove to be more objective than any other. For our final legacy, Zalasiewicz argues, will provide the ultimate verdict on our species and on our relationship to planet Earth.
But, maybe Moon or Asteroid bases, not being buried by wind, weather, & geological forces, might actually preserve the best evidence of these long-lost ruined species. Maybe we could find evidence for "a bizarre global merry-go-round of organisms and by sharp perturbations of climate" — for example, perhaps we should expect to see "planets in recovery" after nuclear war, or 'self-inflicted' global warming. Perhaps we should expect to see "unnatural" diversities of life, in surviving ecosystems, which show the "tell tale imprint" of these "puzzlingly different" kinds of mass extinctions — for example, Lifeforms tend to increase in complexity over time, so that a "natural" unperturbed Ecosystem has a 'smooth distribution', of number of species, plotted against some sort of complexity score... but after a "puzzling" mass extinction, brought about by the (bizarre) behavior of that world's sentient species, you could conceivably end up w/ an "unnatural" distribution, where most of the world is populated by primitive microbes (as if the world were very young, being "bombed back into the stone age"), but w/ a few relic surviving complex forms ('cockroaches & rats') that stand mute witness to the previously greater biodiversity, upon that planet, in the past.
I am convinced, that if you were sufficiently sly, you could
wring, out of this "Predator Hypothesis", some testable predictions,
above & beyond, "we should see
nothing... b/c
The Predator already induced their destructions". Something along the lines of "we should see 'puzzling' signatures of Life, indicating planets recovering from a [geologically] recent Mass Extinction"; strange evidence of technological relics on Moons & Asteroids in systems where the home planet looks like it lacks a sentient species ("Dust covered probes on Mars"),
etc.
As you said, this theory posits a prediction so "
extreme" — rubbled ruins of failure & folly across the galaxy — that there
has to be some sort of "barely visible signature", that even we humans could see, in the next few decades. For example, Global Warming allegedly causes "Super Storms". Perhaps the presence of
'puzzling' sorts of storm systems will be visible w/in the next few decades, and could confirm (or refute) this suggestion.
Edited by Widdekind, 23 January 2010 - 01:44 AM.
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