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How do we know we aren’t the colonists?
by mokus 5y ago
How do we know we aren’t the colonists?
- yreg 5y agoThat doesn't solve the paradox though, unless we are quaranteened in a Zoo.
- marcosdumay 5y agoYou mean how we know the Earth wasn't seeded with something similar to archeo-bacteria on purpose? We don't but that doesn't solve the problem. Or how do we know that we, humans, aren't the colonists? Well, all the life we know comes from the same ancestry, including us.
- tjalfi 5y agoThere have been a couple science fiction novels with this premise: Protector[0] by Larry Niven David Weber's Dahak trilogy, available as the Empire from the Ashes[1] omnibus [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_(novel) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_from_the_Ashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_from_the_Ashes