The Alien World

There are very few places on earth more mysterious than Nasca Lines in Peru, South America, with Pyramids of Egypt still topping my list. Nasca is one of the driest places on earth, and that is one of the reason they are well preserved. Around 1500 figures have been discovered till now, made of straight lines forming geometric shapes, animals, birds, human look-alike, etc. Many of them are are as huge as a 40 storey building, e.g. The Heron, which is 900 ft. , a lizard is 617 feet, etc. It is widely believed that the Nasca culture flourished from around 350 B.C. to 600 A.D. though it may be possible that these line are much older, because practically it may not be possible to date them as the line will be dated same as the stone cleared to make them.

There are multiple theories for why Nasca people made such huge figures. Some of them are:

1. Alien landing stripe: Erich von Däniken, author of book Chariots of the Gods,  argues that the huge geometric geoglyphs (e.g. trapezoids) can be understood as “an airfield… built according to instructions from an aircraft.”
   Read more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episode/nasca-lines-the-buried-secrets-4477/Overview13#tab-theories#ixzz0nP39yRCe
2. Giant astronomical calendar: Linking the figures with stars, and astronomy, same as Pyramids astronomical significance.
3. Subterranean Water Theory: David Johnson links the Nasca geoglyphs to sources of underground water that would have been critical to desert-dwelling people
   Read more: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episode/nasca-lines-the-buried-secrets-4477/Overview13#tab-theories#ixzz0nP2w85BB
4. Sacred purpose: Artifacts of the Nasca culture show a preoccupation with death; other major monuments of the ancient world are known to be ritual in nature;The Nasca Lines may have been ritual centers for helping the dead achieve immortality; they may have been an offering to the gods; or they could have been a major pilgrimage site.

There are no solid proof to justify any of these theories. Practically it is not possible to draw such huge figures with such preciseness without looking from high up in the air. Even though most scholars attribute the figures to Nascans, but there are still no proofs that they actually built them. The ‘primitive’ Nascans must be have very sophisticated technology to survey the area in order to build massive drawings so precisely.

Some related readings

1. The science of Peruvian Geoglyphs: http://www.nazcamystery.com/nazca_science.htm
2. Areal Tour (Nasca in Picture): http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episode/nasca-lines-the-buried-secrets-4477/Overview11#tab-geoglyph-photos-1
3. Geoglyphs across the globe: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episode/nasca-lines-the-buried-secrets-4477/Overview25#tab-map-other-geoglyphs 

Egyptian and Indian culture are the testimony of the power and intelligence that was with the people of these civilization thousands of years back. Perhaps the science was more advance then, than it is now. I was recently reading a book on Teleportation – the science of moving from one place to another with the blink of an eye, remember watching Star trek. Incidences related to teleportation are widely used in Indian mythology. Other few technological marvels like Pushpak Viman, Lost City of Dwarka, weapons like Bramastra (equivalent to today’s Atom bomb) are abundant in many of the Hindu epics as Ramayana, Mahabharata. Incidences related to Dwarka mentioned in Mahabharata are now scientifically proven to be correct.

I believe that more than 5000 years ago science was at its peak in these civilizations. If we were so advance then, than why do we have to reinvent the wheel? In all the famous & old civilizations, say Egyptians or Mesopotamian or Indian, people believed that the knowledge was passed to them by Gods. Who were these Gods? Where did they come from? Where did they go?

There are no answers to the above questions.

Egyptians are considered to be the source of birth of modern medical science. The Eye of Horus was believed to have healing and protective power, and it was used as a protective amulet, and as a medical measuring device, using the mathematical proportions of the eye to determine the proportions of ingredients in medical preparations) to prepare medications. The Egyptians did write prescriptions. Those prescriptions were first magical verses and then the real prescription. The Eye of Horus was an important part of the magical part of the prescription. With time the magical part became smaller, and the real prescription more important.  Eventually, all that was left of the magical verse was the Eye of Horus. The sign has remained in pharmacist’s shorthand to this day with Rx being the sign for a prescription! Archeologists have found many tools dated 4000 years old on bank of river Nile & other sights, which closely resembles modern surgical tools. These tools were made of volcanic glass, which on research have found to be much superior to surgical steel. Who gave all this knowledge to Egyptians and why did it all lost. If science was so advance then, than why do we have to reinvent all again?

Today’s science is still no able to find answers to many of the things. Like the iron pillar in Delhi that was built around 4-5 AD & still does not show any signs of rust and corrosion. It is testimony to the high level of skill achieved by ancient Indians. It was originally made in centeral India, but how it moved to Delhi 1000 years ago still remains a mystery.  It has been something of a riddle for people—historians, archaeologists, palaeographers, metallurgists, etc—for close to a century and a half.

“Nearly everything about the pillar is surrounded by acute controversy: For whom was it made? Exactly when? Where did it originally stand before it was moved to Delhi? What is the true import of the long inscription in Brahmi characters engraved upon it? Who placed the later inscriptions on it, and when? Who had the pillar moved to its present location, and why? What exact processes were followed in forging it into shape at that early a point of time, the 4th/5th century AD? Above all, from the scientists’ point of view, what is the secret, the great mystery, behind the fact of its being virtually non-rusting? There seems to be no end to the questions.” - Enigma of the Iron Pillar, B.N. Goswamy

 
Or consider magnificent pyramids built 4600 years ago. The three pyramids of Egypt were built at different times, the amazing fact is that the largest one is also the oldest and shows much finer work then the later two. It is still highly debatable who built the pyramids. Were they actually humans who designed and architected it or someone else designed and used humans as labors. Many people try to find answers of how it was build. You will find one of the links on my blog under “Great Mysteries”, which describes how the Great Pyramid was constructed. But given the time it was constructed, I doubt how 20000 people can complete the work in 20 years. Is it possible that the first pyramid was solely built by people from outer space and later the knowledge was passed to humans to built second and third and other pyramids?

These are just few of many mystries that show the grandure of science thousands of years ago. It is very likely that we have received help from somewhere in evolution of science.

How alien are we? I give a lot of thought about it, considering how diverse the life on earth is be it over the surface or in water. Roughly 1.75 million species have been formally described and given official names, undescribed are even much more than that (reference http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biodiversity). It is very likely that many of these species got its origin form different planets in the galaxy.

Around 4.5 billion years ago a star explode under supernova causing enormous amount of rubble of rocks and meteors. Due to enormous acceleration and gravitational force the meteors collided with each other to form bigger rocks meteors which are also known at proto-planets. Over the period of millions of years that followed after supernova this process stopped, forming our solar system.

The earth was not like what it is today. In the beginning it was a ball of molten rocks and gases…. Billions of years ago earth was filled with gases – hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon-di-oxide, but no oxygen. But from where does the oxygen came? What is the source of water on earth?

Origin of life is still the most puzzling of all the things explored by scientists. 3.1 billion year ago humans would have only survived for few moments. What is the source of life? The answer lies in the answers for the source of water & oxygen.

Even after formation of all the planets there were still millions of meteors left in the universe. Many of them found their way to earth. Many of these meteors also contained frozen gases & water and also an important building block of life – amino acids. When they hit the earth surface all these become part of our planet. The impact of frozen meteors cooled down the surface of earth forming continents and oceans. Actually it didn’t cooled the surface instantly, instead its a different topic how the earth’s core was formed with molten iron and nickel. But these meteors actually played a crucial role in cooling done the burning planet.

This explains the source of water, but not about oxygen.

With lot of CO2 and sun bacteria started forming under the surface of water – they were none other than Cyanobacteria also known as green-blue algae. This was the first sign of life. They absorbed sunlight and absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere, and in the process released oxygen. The process we now know as photosynthesis. Over the period of time the CO2 continued to decrease and oxygen continued to increase. Once there was enough oxygen, there was no looking back. Life found its way on the land as well.

This suggests that life on our planet is attributed to the alien bodies that came to earth billions of years ago and become part of the planet and found a way to evolve into complex life. This also may mean that we all, including all animals, are aliens or have some genes of them in us!

Further references: Humans are alien of animal planet – part 1 & part 2

More I read & think about the evolution of universe, more my belief is firmed that earth is not the only living planet.

Now here are some interesting numbers (reference ‘COSMOS’, by Carl Sagan):

There are some hundred billion (10¹¹) galaxies, each with on an average having hundred billion stars. In all the galaxies there are perhaps as many planets as the stars, i.e. 10¹¹ x 10¹¹ = 10²², ten billion trillion.

Considering these numbers, it is very unlikely that earth is the only planet inhabited by life.But lets face it that we have not yet discovered life else where, and I have serious doubt about the truth of people sighting UFOs and aliens.

Assuming that earth is the only living planet we must consider overselves very fortunate, or at least consider ourselves fortunate till we find any other planet having life or capable of sustaing life.

I wonder how shall we, human, react if any such planet is discovered. Should we rush for the bookings, blocking the land???