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I wrote a novel, I know, every asshole has. About this. My theory, that is, either ridiculous or correct, the Silurians are the ancestors of the dolphin. The do
by zw123456 4y ago
I wrote a novel, I know, every asshole has. About this. My theory, that is, either ridiculous or correct, the Silurians are the ancestors of the dolphin. The dolphin, or OK, the Orca, have a larger cerebral cortex than humans. What if, they were on once land dwellers, could it be? There is some science behind that. And say, they burned a bunch of hydrocarbons and caused a global warming, melted all the ice and they had to evolve to be ocean mammals.
I understand this is a sci-fi fantasy.
But my mind wanders, I think, let's say you understand your fate, once cast, how would you warn the next intelligent species to inhabit Earth?
You cannot simply place an odalisque with an inscription on it, of course, over the millennia or billennia, it will be erased, you send out a sentinel into space.
How would you warn the next iteration of intelligent life?
Perhaps some sort of AI space craft?
What if it turns out, they are the intelligent ones, having learned a lesson we have yet to learn?
- kbutler 4y ago> place an odalisque with an inscription on it obelisk?
- sammalloy 4y ago> I’m sure the OP meant obelisk, and probably typed that originally, but it looks like their system changed it to odalisque, "a female slave or concubine in a harem, especially one in the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey."
- prepend 4y agoIt’s funny how autocorrect changes real words to other words. Obelisk seems more common than odalisque so maybe OP just writes about odalisques quite a bit.
- algon33 4y ago>place an odalisque with an inscription on it Besides being cruel, odalisques aren't known to exist for more than a hundred or so years. Let alone millennia.
- chasil 4y agoDolphins, as mammals, descended from a land-walking mammal discovered in Pakistan. As did the whales. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-whales-walked-on-four-legs.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/when-whales-walked-on-four-le... "Pakicetus, a goat-sized, four-legged creature that scientists recognise as one of the first cetaceans (the group of marine animals that includes dolphins and whales). [Discovered in 1981.]" https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/the-first-whale-pakicetus https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/the... (I actually saw this in an aquarium/museum exhibit a few weeks ago in Clearwater, Florida.)
- spacecity1971 4y agoWhat if the more difficult to explain parts of the UAP phenomenon is our experience of the remnant of that previous civilization? It never went extinct, it just moved into space and the bottom of the oceans. We're ants, unaware of the civilization that surrounds us because it is to alien/advanced for us to comprehend.
- j-bos 4y agoSpoilers for Robin Cook's Abduction. Fun read.