Are they all that Alien?

Aliens and UFOs-a topic that has been much researched and studied by great scientists and thinkers of our times and before. Likewise, I too pondered on it and came up with a strange but likely hypothesis.

Firstly, let me put forward a few well-known facts that will be of utmost importance to our discussion. There are many theories to explain the origin of our universe. One of the most widely accepted ones is the Big Bang Theory. According to the Big Bang Theory, the universe came into being sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions. Eventually, planets, stars, galaxies, asteroids, and all other astronomical matter that we know of formed. There are also theories that state that there are not one but several solar systems within one galaxy and thousands of such galaxies.

Archaic forms of Homo sapiens evolved about 500000 years ago. We are aware of the fact that man has been constantly evolving and adapting to the changes in his environment. The world is not the same way today as it was during the time it was formed. Innumerable changes have taken place in its appearance as well as it’s other internal and external features…. just as changes take place in our bodies, both internal and external, as we grow older…and man has constantly been adapting his body and lifestyles to the changes.

Now, let us come to the point. There is every possibility of there having been more than one Big Bang. If it can happen once, why not earlier or later as well? So, there are possibilities of there being yet another solar system wherein another earth exists which also underwent the same physical changes that our planet underwent. But this solar system may have begun it’s life much earlier or much later than ours…. the time of the Bang need not have been the same. So, let us assume the existence of a solar system and a pseudo planet earth elsewhere in our galaxy… or in some other galaxy. In addition, we shall also assume that they were formed a few million years before us. Now, that planet would also have evolved life and there might have been humans like us living there as well! The problems we face on our planet today might also have been faced by people there like global warming, pollution, acid rain, ozone layer depletion and hordes of other problems too. Though technology was advancing, man could not have possibly kept up with the rapid changes taking place around him and without his knowledge, his body continued the evolution process, though very slowly, and adapted to the changes around him. Do you think it would have been possible for a cave man to have survived in such a polluted environment like us? No. His body would not have had the resistance power for it. But are we not surviving in this world? How? The answer is evolution & adaptation.

Our bodies are naturally programmed to automatically undergo change with changes in our environment. So, we consider that the evolution process continued in the pseudo earth too. As the levels of pollution went higher and higher, man’s body adjusted itself by forming added resistance both internal and external. Now this may sound a little offbeat but it cannot be ruled out either. Man develops higher levels of internal pollution resistance and externally, his skin color and texture may change to combat the increasing amounts of UV radiation seeping through the enormous holes in the ozone layer. Alongside these bodily changes, man is also advancing in technology. He is constantly searching for a place where he can move to as he knows that the end of this world is near. The sun is nearing its death and it is only a few hundred years away. Man frantically searches for another place where he can survive and finally does…. on some other planet in some other galaxy…it could be anywhere else. However, his body does not require so much fresh air and water like before as it is accustomed to the adverse living conditions on it’s earlier residence. Hence finding a place to live will not prove to be as difficult either. Man moves entirely to other planets and settles down there. Depending on the place he chooses to stay, his body undergoes further changes and so does his appearance. Now you must not forget that I am speaking of a very large time span and it may range over millions of years. Hence, these new forms of highly advanced and strange looking beings are what we know as aliens!

It could be that they go on tours of the universe in search of other forms of life and resources to power their projects and they stumble upon a planet on which life exists but in a form much pre-historic to them…. US! It may be during such instances when we claim of having seen ‘aliens’ and ‘flying saucers’ and ‘UFOs’. They may have come in search of food, resources or may have been on scientific explorations! It is just that we surprise each other. When they feel that the reception is hostile, they attack us. Alien sighting reports often suggest that in spite of the humanoid appearances that they have, they are technologically much more advanced than we are. Nevertheless, we cannot blame them for their actions. If we were to find a world elsewhere where dinosaurs and cavemen still live, wouldn’t we be urged to bring back a person or animal from that world to ours? They are also similar…. and their actions are too.

I believe that our future is also similar to them. They vary in appearances and behavioral patterns due to the climatic and environmental differences of the places they live in. I do not advocate that they are innocent or harmless. Just as they are to us, we are strange beings to them too… and they do not know if they will be accepted here in our world. Think about it…. Are we seeing our distant future through these beings? Well, maybe we are after all!