Human Expansion across the Galaxy

 I was watching an interesting video on Youtube about NASA’s  plan to  build a colony on Moon as a stepping stone to launch/build colony on Mars. It brought into my mind a thought that I have had for the past year or so.. should humans expand beyond the Earth.

Let’s leave the question of human survivability (nor non-survivability) on Earth, it’s a different question and is not the subject of this particular blog.

Let’s make the argument for or against humanity expansion across the Solar system/Galaxy.. let’s not even discuss about spreading to other Galaxies.

Humans or Homo Sapiens survives to live across multiple planets/moons/space stations.

Now, lets look at a deeper perspective.

Do we really think that humans spreading across multiple planets/moons is going to remove all the social/economically/racially/caste/political/religious class distinctions that humans have?

Do we really think, instead of one country against another, it will become one planet against another?

I know, what its going to become like – sure some planets will be ethnically/politically/racially/caste/socially/economically/religioussly diverse. But some planets will become monogenic in terms of any of the above stated. And, do you think these monogenic planets will let the diverse planets be at peace? Or let the other planets/moons of what they consider inferior at peace? There will be wars fought against other planets for supremacy even at the cost of destruction of entire planets

Know how these planets will react if & when humanity comes across say a other sapience species (Species that is on same or above the technology level of humans at that time). Won’t they try to form alliances with the other species to destroy or rule over the other planets. And before you say No, look at human history. See what happened in Africa/ India. Some of the native population used/tries to use the Europeans to settle scores with their traditional enemies, and that is how the Europeans got a foothold in these places.

To say, this would not happen is to ignore humanity’s nature and ignore everything that has happened in human history.

Let’s not talk about what will happen if humanity comes across a sapience species that is technologically less developed. Let’s be honest they would be subsumed and made to serve under humans, no question about it.

So, simple answer – please lets no spread across multiple planets and do ourselves a favor.

Hollywood and the Ancient Egyptians

I saw the movie Transformers 2 movie recently. It was the last straw; I have had it with Hollywood. It’s not so much as the concept of the movie – which is crap – that I can’t agree with but, implicitly implying that the Pyramids and some other monuments in the Egypt- Jordan region were all built by aliens or at least with alien collaboration.

Take any sci-fi films that involves aliens and you are bound to have a sub-plot that says the pyramids were built by aliens. Sometimes the plot extends to saying all the ancient monuments in the world were all built by aliens – they are a portal to another dimension or they were built to protect some power source.

Imhotep – considered a great physician and the guy who designed and built the Step Pyramid (the first pyramid ever built) for his King - is shown as an evil, corrupt man who wants to take over the world.

Qin Shi Huang - China’s first emperor, the man who united China; is also portrayed as an power hungry evil monarch. The list goes on....Genghis Khan is another famous villain of Hollywood’s imagination.

Now imagine, if one was to portray say Charlemagne (the first Holy Roman Emperor) or Arthur (the mythical king of England) is the same vein would the film be allowed to release? Would the film be made at all is the million dollar question.

Interestingly there are no comparable ancient monuments in Europe or America - that is monuments that date from the period during which the pyramids of Egypt were built. Sure, there are the old monuments from this period but nothing as big or as spectacular. Only Stonehenge compares in this regard, but I was not able to find many films that have Stonehenge as an alien subplot.

Of course, one may argue that the monuments built by the Mayas, Aztecs, Incas are also portrayed as alien-built. One need not mention about the Easter Island statues. As again I am sure, you will notice a certain link between an monuments portrayal as alien and the civilization that built it. The link being that, the particular civilization would not be from Europe. The monuments would be spectacular having no equal in Europe.

So like I said, waiting for movies in which the Stonehenge is built by aliens, Charlemagne or Arthur shown as blood-thirsty, evil monarchs who want to rule all of human kind...you guys know the plot.