History, virtually, repeats itself
Sometime this month Discovery Channel will be showing "Alien Planet".
This is not just made up by some hollywood production company but a concerted effort of some of the most notable scientists.
From the preview clip, the story goes like this:
In 2014 an unmanned spacecraft will descend on a (far away) planet to discover life. Mind you, it is not aliens dicovering us, as the prevailing popular view is, but the other way around.
And what we will discover are dinosaur-like creatures. From the camera angle - which is at eye-level - of the computer-generated animation, the scene is like that of earth being visited by flying saucers and other auxillary crafts.
To me it seems to suggest: "hey, this is what happened to earth long ago, we’re only retelling it" or "this a good example of ‘history repeating itself’ -on another planet, though".
We don’t have cable so I won’t be able watch it so I can only wonder about the show’s content. I like to think that the story goes like this:
Aside from discovering the planet’s rich natural resources - including a precious metal we badly need to heal earth of the cataclysmic effect of global warming - it is also a good candidate for human habitation.
But those giant dinosaur-like creatures native to that planet would get in the way of our (man’s) plans. So we decided to innahilate them all (mass extinction). Well, not all. We left some smaller species which were later genetically manipulated to serve as slaves to labor in the mines.
Apparently, a high ranking (Human) official, either out of pity -maybe because these slaves bears strong resemblance to us in many ways, or just out of plain evil motive of wanting to stir up the almost perfect setup, tricked these innocent beings into believing that by rebelling against the system they will be free in all ways possible and become like us. (He didn’t actually tricked them because there was really an existing contraption that is meant for upgrading these less-than-human mutants into a complete, concious man.
As if to tease or just -for our own amusement- see how long our creations can hold off their curiosity, we even placed this sophisticated machine conspicuously at the center of this artificial environment where men and these mutants interact.
And the deal was: They were not to mess around with this machine. It was not explained to them as to what this thing is until this officer revealed it to them. Well, obviously, he’s excellent at convincing - or maybe his product is too good to pass off - otherwise they wouldn’t have listened.
But the real, more serious reason, is difficult to understand as to why it was placed in a tempting location, let alone why build it in the first place. It remained confidential… forever.
Anyway, after the rebellion they were cast out of their comfy environment to an unknown territory. There they multiplied rapidly.
In the course of time, they produced female offsprings that proved too irresistible for the male humans stationed on that planet. So these men took for themselves these females as mates not knowing the consequences of their actions.
This ellicit unions produced offprings of fearsome and evil reputation. It came to a point where evil deeds have become a commonplace that the human leaders decided to destroy this "diluted" race to start all over.
But we need something to start with.
So we searched for a family whose genes still carry the original strain -"unblemished". Not long after they were found, (which was next to impossible)they were ordered to build a huge vessel - where they will be safe, along with the other endemic creatures they were required to secure - that can withstand severe floods brought about by a long period of rain.
Ok, it’s already a give-away, as the title goes, anyone can take the story from this point — alluding to the book of Genesis 6.
