Human Effect | The Alien World

Apr 18

What is the Correlation between stability of a society and the growth of human race?

Posted in: Society

The answer is simple – Stability allows a person the freedom of choice. People can pursue their dreams only when they are living in a society where survival is not a daily threat. We don’t need a stats professor to tell this. Surprisingly I found these very thoughts in ‘The Immortals of Meluha’, which is a novel based on Lord Siva. The plot of the novel is set in 1900 BC, which holds true to even this day and probably forever.

I think for stability & security few things are very important for the society to prosper

Political & economic stability
Strict law enforcement
Ability to question without fear
Mutual respect for people from every level in the society, and
Civic sense and respect for law (I have purposefully made two separate points for law enforcement and respect for law).

In a society without security and stability, there are no intellectuals, businessmen, artists or geniuses. Their is only one of the two thing in mind – how to survive or how to kill. Man is constantly in fight or flight mode. Nothing better than an animal. In such a mode, there is no chance to allow ideas to nurtured or dreams to be pursued. That is the way all humans were before societies were formed, and that is the way humans are today where there is no stability in the society (read country). Without taking names, there are many countries today in South Asia, or Africa where the civilization has reached its bottom. People are barbaric and there is no progress. Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures can take over very fast. We can forget that we are sentient beings, with laws and codes and ethics.

Sep 01

Greatest sex machine!

Posted in: Did you know, Human Effect

Everyone seems to be so fascinated with the word ‘Sex’. Our need to have sex is perhaps the only thing natural left in us. But this is not my topic for today’s blog…

Sometime back I was reading somewhere in china, a park breeds tiger, so that they can sell their meat in there restaurant. I wondered why someone will like to eat the most beautiful & fearful animal in the world. Then I came to know that Tiger’s & Lion’s genitals are costliest body parts in the Asian market (read China, Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, South Korea, and few other Asian countries). They have a belief that various tiger parts have medicinal properties, including as pain killers and aphrodisiacs. In fact, the market for tiger’s testicles has driven the Asian tiger to the brink of extinction. With the result, all tigers disappeared and ended up in man’s stomach. All living tigers and lions you see are now are in preserved wildlife parks and zoos.

Well strange it may seem it has its roots in the very ability for lion & tigers to have sex many times in a day. Have you ever wondered why a lion sleeps all day and lioness does all the hunting? Simple – he has to preserve all his energies for the act of love. Now here is the more surprising part, a lion can mate 150 times in just a period of 48 hours, with as many lionesses in the pride. It may seem like he is really a sex addict. Isn’t it? Not really.

A lion has to really work hard to pass on his seeds. On an average it takes a lion to mate around 3000 times with a lioness so that she can make a cub. So now you understand why lion has always sex on his mind!

Apr 12

Humans are Aliens on this ‘Animal Planet’ – Part 2

Posted in: Mysteries, Science & Fictions

Humans are aliens on this planet, or if not entirely then may be partially… considering the fact that homo sapiens is the only species that is intelligent and can speak, read and write.

It may be also true that humans must have evolved from a monkey to some extent… evolving may not exactly be the correct terminology here. Mutation may be a better replacement… It may be possible that monkeys may have been mutated or cross-breaded with some alien species to result in the early form of human life…. this later may have been take its own natural course of evolution.

This is worth giving a thought – “there are 30 million living species and if the average life expectancy of a species is about 100,000 years, then one can postulate that there have been billions, perhaps as many as 50 billion species since the origin of life. Only one of these achieved the kind of intelligence needed to establish a civilization.” –Ernst Mayr, Bioastronomy News, Third Quarter 1995

Refer: Part 1

Jan 24

Humans are Aliens on this ‘Animal Planet’ – Part 1

Posted in: Mysteries, Science & Fictions

In one of my previous blogs I mentioned that man is a social animal. Remove the world ‘social’ and you will see the truth. Man is an animal; is equally true and that too of the worst kind. Human beings are the most deadly and equally fragile in all the living beings. I never stop wondering that I am a human who can think and do things which other animals cannot do, like driving a car on Indian roads. For that matter, even some human animals on this planet (from other countries) cannot drive in India. This blog entry is not about driving on Indian roads, because I know that is tough; tougher than evolving from a monkey to man.

Human evolution has taken thousands of years. In all these year he has learned how to speak & write, walked in space, had been to moon, learned how to build new things and more than that has learned how to destroy things around. I read somewhere that GAIA – the living Earth has a mind of its own… I think Gaia has already started thinking, but I guess I will keep this topic for later discussions.

What sets humans apart from other animals is the ability to reason and commonsense. That is also one of the reasons that humans have the largest brain of all the animals. Imagine if these two differentiators are not there.

It is surprising to see that on a planet with thousands of species only one type of animal has the ability to think or reason. There are some questions which are still unanswered. Why of all the species only humans evolved? Why other animal did not evolve to speak, write or even think? If humans evolved from a monkey why monkeys are still around? Or why are monkeys not evolving now? At least one movie has shown that monkeys have evolved to speak, i.e. ‘planet of apes’.

Earth is the blue planet, quite distinct from rest of the members in solar system. I have seen and read many places that Mars has the closest resemblance to Earth, with traces of water. Even some scientists are trying to find life on Mars. In an another study I read that if the weather conditions keeps on changing like this then Earth will soon (some thousands or millions of year ahead) become like Mars.

There is no need to explain why the weather is changing; we all know the reason that it is man who is responsible for this. I am not sure if scientists have concluded that there was ever life on Mars, but for time being we can assume that there must have existed some form of life in past and that too an in advanced form. Now if we also consider humans as aliens based on the fact that we are different from rest of the animals on Earth, then the question is from where did the humans came? Looking at the fact that Mars is the closest planet with high resemblance to Earth, and which also may have some form of life in past, then there is a high possibility that the humans came from Mars.

So if humans are aliens and are from Mars, the question is why did they leave Mars? I believe that humans must have over consumed the natural resources of Mars and that would have resulted in drastic weather changes, frequent Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and drought. This would have made Mars inhabitable. Most of them must have died and those few who were left had to find a new place to live. So their next destination would have been planet Earth.

Now we all can safely assume what is going to happen to this planet “Earth”!!!

Part 2