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Throughout the ancient world, there were tales of mortals and immortals.

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In Christian traditions, in Islamic traditions, and Hindu traditions, you have these divine beings who live forever.

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Could these stories be a count of alien visitors who traveled the world from thousands of light years away?

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Imagine an advanced civilization that has interstellar travel.

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If they could travel through the stars, they could stretch their longevity, maybe even to centuries.

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And if humans are to one day colonize other planets, will we too need to discover the key to immortality?

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What our extraterrestrial ancestors have wanted us to do is be like them.

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They want us to be a space-faring race that goes to the stars, and to live these extended lives where we become essentially immortal.

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There is a doorway in the universe.

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Beyond it is the promise of truth.

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If the matters we question everything we have ever been taught, the evidence is the truth.

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The future is what we pay for our lives.

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We are not alone. We have never been alone.

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Oxford, England, the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology.

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Among the hundreds of historic artifacts on display is an ancient Sumerian cuneiform text.

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Dating back to at least 2000 BC, the four-sided clay document is a list of kings who lived far longer than the average human lifespan.

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In the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, there's an astounding artifact.

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It's referred to as WB 44, the Sumerian Kings List.

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On one panel, it tells us about eight kings that ruled over five cities.

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And what's astounding about this is the length of the reigns of these kings.

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One king is said to have ruled for 43,200 years.

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Another king rules for 28,000 years.

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It's astounding.

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Curiously, the Sumerian Kings List is not the only ancient record of rulers who lived for centuries.

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A curious document was found in a tomb in a Luxor, and it's called the Turin Kings List.

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We only have fragments of this document, but what this document lays out is that many of the really early Egyptian pharaohs had lives that were many hundreds of years.

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And that some of these pharaohs lived for seven, eight, 900 years.

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We have a similar story in the Bible of Methuselah, and that he's said to have lived for 969 years.

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So how is it that people are able to live such great ages?

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Is it merely coincidence that in three different ancient traditions, there are records of their earliest leaders living impossibly long lives?

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Curiously, in all three cultures, it was also recorded that during the time when people lived to these incredible ages, humans shared the earth with beings who came down from the sky.

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The ancient Egyptians referred to a time called the First Time when the gods walked among men.

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Ancient Egyptian creation mythology tells us that these original god beings came from the stars.

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This sounds very much like the arrival of the Anunnaki, the divine lords of light of the Sumerian tradition when they arrived atop Mount Kursakl.

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It's also virtually identical to the arrival of the Watchers.

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The Watchers are the angels of the Old Testament.

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They are the fallen angels who came to earth and intermingled with humans.

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The Watchers, like divine beings in many other ancient cultures, were referred to as immortals,

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but often they were described as having very human-like traits.

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There were 200 of these Watchers and they were led by an individual named Samjaisi.

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They shone. There was a translucent, there was an aura about them that was as bright as the sun,

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but they seemed to be more human in their appetites than one would like to believe.

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They're hungry, they eat, they want affection, they lost.

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I think that the Watchers most definitely are extraterrestrials who came to earth.

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Countless ancient original cultures speak of a time when the gods descended from the sky and mingled with people to impart their knowledge.

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Ancient Egypt, ancient China, ancient Samaria, ancient Japan, ancient Greece.

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And so I think the different cultures were visited by the same teachers who were extraterrestrials.

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Could it be that the earliest human civilizations shared the earth with visitors from another world?

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And if so, is this somehow connected to the ancient records of people who lived extraordinarily long lives?

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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest an important clue can be found in a famous verse from the Bible that is often mistranslated.

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In many English versions of the book of Genesis, chapter 1 verse 27 states that God created man in his own image.

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But in the original Hebrew, instead of his image, it says our image.

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God says in Genesis, let us make man in our image.

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Well, you have to say, well, who is our, who are the other people there?

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Well, the word God in Hebrew is Elohim and that is plural.

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If you look at the original Hebrew in which the sentence was written, all of a sudden you have the truth.

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Because according to the ancient astronaut theory, someone came and someone altered our DNA in order for us to become humans.

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And essentially gave us more intelligence.

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Practically every culture, including our Bible says in the beginning God in the plural created humans according to their own image.

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They may be believing God, but God is something gigantic, spiritual, not explainable.

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In my opinion, when you read the Bible, it's all about extraterrestrials.

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Part of ancient astronaut theory is that what our extraterrestrial ancestors have wanted us to do is be like them.

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They want us to achieve the same things that they achieved.

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The goal was some thousands of years in the future.

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This humanity should be able to construct spaceships to spread out in the universe again.

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If Homo sapiens were genetically engineered by extraterrestrial space travelers to one day become like them and seed life on other planets,

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what might this mean for the future of the human race?

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Some experts have suggested that interstellar travel will only be possible when science finds a way to dramatically extend the human lifespan.

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Maybe our generation with new developments in technologies will be living to the mid 100s, 150s, maybe even up to 200 in the next few decades.

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So imagine an advanced civilization that has interstellar travel.

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Certainly if they can travel through the stars, they could stretch their longevity, maybe even to centuries.

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Could it be that the ancient people referred to the gods as immortals because they encountered space travelers who lived for thousands of years?

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And if so, is it possible that there are records of early rulers living for centuries because these visitors somehow extended their lifespans?

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It was natural for people in those days to live a life close to a thousand years.

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We're talking about those who interacted with these beings from the stars.

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Are these things connected?

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We're talking about an age in which otherworldly beings assist humankind in becoming very much like the gods.

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But if our ancestors from deep antiquity were so close to becoming like their extraterrestrial creators, as ancient astronaut Dira suggests,

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what kept them from revising this destination and are humans today still on the same path?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining a story shared by different cultures all over the world.

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The story of the Great Fly.

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The Bible's Book of Genesis in chapter 6 verse 9 begins the story of Noah and the flood in which God sends a great village to cleanse the earth,

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which has become overrun by sin.

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It is one of the most well-known tales from the Bible, but curiously, nearly identical stories exist in dozens of other ancient traditions.

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We've heard about the flood of Noah, which wiped out that whole generation and brought about a new generation of descendants of Noah.

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The fact is, there's all these stories of the Great Flood in all countries across the world.

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Plato talked about Atlantis.

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He talked about a whole civilization destroyed by floods.

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In the Bible, Turkey, in Egypt, among Native Americans, there's a story that the Great Flood wrapped around the entire planner.

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All life was destroyed.

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The connection between the biblical story of the Great Flood and the destruction of other societies around the world through floods tell us one thing.

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There actually was a Great Flood, and that at one point in the history of this planet, all life was wiped out as the earth was covered in water.

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In all mythologies, including the Bible, some gods are coming down and teach the human a Great Flood will come and destroy you.

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And these gods knew it long before, and they knew it because they themselves made the Great Flood.

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The Great Flood was created by extraterrestrials on purpose.

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Could the story of the Great Flood be an historical record of a real event that was brought on by extraterrestrials?

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But if the ancient astronaut theory is current and aliens genetically engineer humankind, why would they then destroy their greatest creation?

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We have the records as described in the book of Enoch and other literature that the Watchers led to the moral corruption of all humanity, which led to the destruction of the face of the earth.

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They were introducing hidden technologies centuries before they were meant to be introduced.

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They corrupted the human gene pool.

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In Genesis 6, we hear about the sons of God. They see the daughters of men, and they lust after them, and they come down, and they take them as wives.

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And then they create a hybrid race called the Nephilim.

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You weren't supposed to fraternize with the natives, but this is what we are told in the Bible.

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Now, what are we to make of these texts?

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Are we to say, well, maybe these angels, these sons of God, did they have sex the old fashioned way?

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We don't know, but we need to start looking at these stories from a 21st century perspective.

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But the technology that we have with genetic engineering, splicing genes and what have you, maybe we can revisit this story and look at it from maybe an extraterrestrial hypothesis or point of view.

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They're creating a hybrid race.

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The DNA of the off-world intelligence and human DNA creates this hybrid race, and most of these beings, for better or for worse,

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had what we could call superhuman powers.

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As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, a genetic upgrade occurred.

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One that closed the gap between mortals and immortals far more quickly than was intended.

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And it is a story that once again was told across many cultures.

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When the sons of God procreated with the daughters of men, it is said that mighty ones were born.

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They've had a longer lifespan as well, dating maybe centuries, up to a thousand years.

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Not immortal, but a lifespan much, much longer than ours.

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When you look back at ancient Egyptian history, the pharaohs themselves were said to be demigods.

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Part God, part human.

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This was present in the Greek imagination.

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The Olympians were known to get involved in the world of the mortals.

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They would intervene.

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Sometimes they'd get attracted to immortal and children would come, hercules, persius.

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These are the offspring, demigods, half-god, half-human.

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But in many of the ancient stories, the gods who were responsible for this upgrade of humanity

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were acting against the wishes of their superiors.

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They were not just helping to jumpstart human civilization, but creating a new race of immortals.

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Enoch, who's the scribe of God, says that these angels went against the will of God.

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Now, you can imagine those angels were extraterrestrial in origin.

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And when there was a prime directive, they violated it.

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They gave us gifts, and we weren't ready for those gifts.

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It's like giving a gun to a baby. Nothing good will happen.

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Maybe the extraterrestrials were protecting humanity, and humanity is considered a sacred project.

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And they know that while they'd begun it thousands of years ago,

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it would take thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of years for humanity to reach its ultimate fulfillment.

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But they were committed ultimately to the sacredness or the fulfillment of the project.

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And this is why they restarted civilization.

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As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

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the story of Noah and his family being saved from the flood

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shows that Earth's extraterrestrial visitors did not abandon their plan for humankind.

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As further evidence, they cite a 2,000-year-old text called the Zohar

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that continues the biblical story of the Watchers after the cataclysm that ended the previous age of humans.

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The Zohar says that there's a great secret about the angels who walked with us on Earth.

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The Watchers.

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They ascended to the stars, and they are the ones who come back and shepherd us,

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watch over us, they watch over humanity, and direct the course of our civilization.

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I think that the extraterrestrials never left.

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Why? Because according to the ancient astronaut theory, we are there offspring.

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They made us homo sapiens sapiens who we are today.

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If you have such a creation, I don't think you would just abandon that.

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We are a long-term project.

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If the first human shared the planet with alien visitors, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

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is it possible that these otherworldly beings have remained on Earth for thousands of years,

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continuing to direct the course of humanity?

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And if humans were designed to ultimately achieve immortality, just how will that happen?

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Perhaps further clues can be found by examining a strange substance discovered on Easter Island.

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Easter Island

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Lying over 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, this remote landmass is famous for the nearly 1,000 monolithic stone statues called Noi found along its coastline.

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For ancient astronaut theorists, the enormous statues, along with the local legends that say they represent giant beings who came down from the sky,

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present a compelling case for Easter Island being a place of extraterrestrial visitation.

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And what has made this notion even more intriguing is the discovery that the island soil contains a substance called rapamycin that might be able to extend the human lifespan.

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In 1968, a remarkable substance was found, a kind of bacterial substance called rapamycin.

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Now it was given that name because it was found on Rapa Nui or Easter Island, which in itself is very interesting.

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And what they found was it could actually help when people had organ transplants to stop them rejecting them,

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but it could also help to cancer therapies as well.

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Then they found that it had very strong anti-aging properties. It would almost reverse aging in certain medical situations.

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Rapamycin has already been shown to extend lifespan and improve health in mice.

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And in 2018, researchers at Texas A&M began testing the substance on dogs.

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While there is still much to learn about the effects of rapamycin,

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scientists are hopeful that it could prove to actually reverse aging on a cellular level.

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Was it a coincidence that rapamycin was found on Easter Island where there's possible alien visitations? We don't know.

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In fact, one question to ask is what do the aliens do to live very long lives themselves? Do they take certain substances?

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Could it be that the anti-aging substance found on Easter Island was left behind by alien visitors who used it as a way to extend their lifespans?

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In numerous ancient traditions, there are stories of the gods possessing elixirs of immortality and sometimes sharing them with humans.

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There are many ancient cultures that had their own food and drink that could bring immortality.

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For instance, in China, there was the peaches of immortality that were given out by the goddess known as the Old Mother of the West.

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These were given to the immortals of China to quite literally allow them to live for eternity.

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For the Greeks, it's this nectar ambrosia of literally the food of the god, but if you consume that, then you yourself will be divine.

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In the Vedas, you have this drink, soma, and the same idea that this is what feeds the gods and keeps them alive and immortal.

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And if we humans eat that food, these substances will keep us alive forever.

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If these gods were in fact alien visitors, could it be that they were able to achieve immortality simply by ingesting some type of plant or drug?

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Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest that substances like ambrosia were merely symbolic devices representing the gods' ability to extend their lives.

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And they believe this was accomplished using the same technology that scientists are developing today.

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Gene Slicing

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 6th, 2021

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A team of scientists working with a gene-manipulating technology known as CRISPR at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT makes a groundbreaking discovery.

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By editing specific genes in mice, the researchers were able to double the lifespans of their test subjects.

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CRISPR, you can think of it like we can cut and snip out pieces of our DNA.

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And if we can discover, for example, part of our genetic code that has to do with aging, we can maybe cut it out.

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Or we can add things into the genetic code that might extend life to potentially create a human that could live forever.

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If we can rewrite the DNA code in principle, we can live forever.

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Already, we've been able to slice and dice that for a mouse, and eventually we'll do it for a human.

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While it remains to be seen, if CRISPR technology will succeed in increasing the human lifespan, some scientists believe the key to immortality may be found by studying a strange sea creature that has the ability to live forever.

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So one thing in nature that seems to be immortal is the immortal jellyfish, where it can actually revert to an earlier state when damaged or at risk and then regrow back into the adult state.

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The cells of all animals begin as stem cells, which then develop into organs, muscles, bones, and whatever else the organism needs.

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The jellyfish species, turitopsis dorni, commonly known as the immortal jellyfish, can take mature adult cells and turn them back into stem cells, allowing the jellyfish to, in effect, start its development all over.

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So you're really reversing the biological timeline and then resetting it going forward, so that you're actually not only living longer, but you're also younger.

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And thinking about how these things get reversed, to me is an intriguing way to approach the biology and the immortality.

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By understanding species like the immortal jellyfish and through the technology of gene editing, might we greatly extend the human lifespan?

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And could extraterrestrials have used similar means to achieve immortality, allowing them to travel great distances through space?

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It often seems to me that we live in a time of rediscovery, meaning that the fact that we come up with ways with which to improve and prolong our lives,

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extraterrestrials have figured that out long ago.

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But while scientists are optimistic that the human lifespan can be lengthened through genetic engineering, many aerospace experts believe that biological bodies are simply not equipped to withstand the rigors of extended space travel.

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They suggest that if humans are to one day colonize other planets, it will require merging man and machine.

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The ancient clivered stone makes a shocking announcement. He claims to be part of a top secret military unit once tasked with recovering extraterrestrial craft and their pilots for the U.S. government.

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I was involved in situations where we actually did recoveries of crashed saucers, for lack of a better term, to breeze thereof.

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There were bodies that were involved with some of these crashes, also somewhere alive.

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While we were doing all this, we were telling the American public there was nothing to it, we were telling the world there was nothing to it.

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Sargent Stone would later describe a specific mission in which he learned that the pilot of an extraterrestrial craft was, quote, a biological robot.

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So what he found was that the so-called grey aliens with the skinny bodies, giant heads, were like biological robots.

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They had few organs, they had all this machinery and computing inside them.

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And he really questioned what this was all about and the conclusion was that they must have been created to travel huge distances from their planet to this planet.

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Because if they were just a biological entity, they simply would not have survived.

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Could it be that Earth is being visited by alien entities that are part-machine?

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Is this why the ancient people referred to the gods as immortals?

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Because they were not entirely biological beings and appeared to never age.

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As further support for this notion, ancient astronaut theorists point to a strange figure that appears in 18th century France, the mysterious Count de Saint-Germain.

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The Count de Saint-Germain is probably one of the most enigmatic gentlemen of human history.

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He was an adventurer, he was a scientist, he was a composer, he knew several languages.

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Yet strangely, he always was the same age whenever anybody saw him.

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One of the most interesting stories about the Count was that when he was at a social gathering, he met an old woman.

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And the old woman said, I met you 60 years ago when I was a young woman.

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And you looked in your 40s then the same as you do now, he hadn't aged.

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Another thing that people talk about was that he had so much knowledge of history and of science.

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He knew a lot of the leaders and kings.

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Throughout his reportedly very long life, the Count de Saint-Germain befriended many noblemen and rulers, who he was believed to have great influence over.

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In the mid 1700s, he was a diplomat for King Louis XV.

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And in the 1760s, he traveled to Russia.

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And he was complicit in the overthrow that put Catherine the Great in place as a czar of Russia.

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It was rumored that he later advised the Russian imperial commander in the war against the Turks, which the Russians ultimately won.

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He was supposed to have died in 1784, but there were reported sightings of him just the following year.

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Entering into a Masonic lodge in France, where his name was actually noted there and there.

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He was reportedly at the beheading of Marie Antoinette several years later.

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And there are many other reports of his presence all the way around the world in the 19th century.

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In addition to appearing in historical records long after he was alleged to have died, it was said by many who knew the Count de Saint-Germain that he had odd habits and possessed extraordinary abilities.

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One of the strange things about him were his dietary habits.

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He'd sit with other people as they ate, but he wouldn't eat with them.

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One of Count de Saint-Germain's contacts in the 18th century was Casanova, who said he had an ability to melt diamonds, that he had amazing abilities and powers.

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He thought that he was an incredible superhuman type of person.

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So if Saint-Germain had lived centuries and he was alien from the past, certainly when you look at aliens who were thousands of years in advance of us, they could have had alterations genetically or mechanically.

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They would allow them to live a very long time.

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Is it possible that the Count de Saint-Germain was an extraterrestrial entity that was part robotic?

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Much like the grey alien that Sergeant Clifford Stone claims to have examined.

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Ancient astronaut Theorist suggests that such a scenario is not so far-fetched considering that today we are already creating robots that are incredibly human-like in their appearance.

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One of the most cutting-edge is a Hanson robotics creation named Sophia.

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What is absolutely mind-blowing about Sophia and other robotic entities is it's not hard to imagine the population of extraterrestrials creating humanoid robots like the ones that we're building today.

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Probably even more advanced.

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And it makes a lot of sense for us to send robots into space instead of flesh and blood bodies.

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If it makes sense for us, it probably makes sense for extraterrestrials as well.

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If the ancient astronaut theory is correct and humankind was created to follow in the footsteps of its extraterrestrial creators, will that mean merging man and machine?

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According to some scientists, that process is already underway.

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On the way.

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Arlington, Virginia.

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Located just four miles west of the Pentagon, is the headquarters for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA.

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Since 2002, DARPA has been investing hundreds of millions of dollars in its brain-machine interface program for the U.S. military.

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The technologies they are developing allow humans to control mechanical devices with their minds.

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There are these brain-computer interfaces where we can implant electrodes in the brain.

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And for example, you can control a prosthetic limb by just using your thoughts with these brain-computer interfaces.

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The chip records activation in your brain.

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It sends that information to your computer, which then sends that to, let's say, a prosthetic limb to control it.

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This is certainly a good way to extend lives when the brain is not the part that's failing, but it's the rest of the body that's failing.

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Because you can actually now imagine human sort of metal, robotic, cyborg combinations where your brain is now not just controlling maybe your biological body, but something artificial and man-made.

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You give this technology another 50 years and we will appear as God beings to a person living at the beginning of the 20th century.

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So let's now look back at the extraterrestrial gods of the ancient world.

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They must have had at least the level of technological sophistication that we are enjoying and experiencing today, probably even more advanced.

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I think it's fascinating where we are in this moment in time because what if one day we can create artificial human beings?

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And in fact, we are merely rediscovering what has happened already a long time ago.

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As far as some ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, merging biology and technology is an important first step in becoming like our alien ancestors.

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But they believe the extraterrestrial beings that people have reported encountering on Earth may be merely avatars, vessels for intelligences that can move from one body to another.

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What if they're digital beings or light beings? We have numerous stories that tell us that the God beings were originally light beings that could then phase into a physical flesh and blood form

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and then phase back into their light body form when they want to travel the stars.

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We hear the story of the Anunnaki, the divine lords of light of the Samarian tradition, or the arrival of the Watchers, the lords of light who descended upon Mount Kermit.

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The stories of Vishnu actually describe Vishnu having many manifestations of himself as other gods.

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He would come to our reality as a different God. He came to Earth many different times as many different people and had adventures and activities and then he would go back into the heavens as Vishnu.

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The aliens could be avatars. They could withstand all the rigors of outer space because they are part biological and part mechanical but controlled by an alien consciousness in a different star system.

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While the notion of a conscious being that can move from one body to another may sound far-fetched, humankind is working towards realizing this technology right now by attempting to map the human brain.

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Whole brain emulation is the ability to create a carbon copy of the brain itself.

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Already by slicing and dicing the brain of a fruit fly, we've been able to catalog all the connections of a fruit fly's brain up to 100,000 neurons.

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Think about that. Every single connection of the brain of a fruit fly map using computers by slicing and dicing the brain.

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Now the human brain is much more complicated.

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100 billion neurons with each neuron connected to 10,000 other neurons.

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But in principle that's also possible to create an exact copy of the brain to map every single neuron of the brain using transistors rather than neurons.

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And it would in principle be identical to who you are.

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It would have access to all your memories, all your dreams, all your foibles, all your mannerisms.

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It'll take of course decades to give you that kind of accuracy, but it is doable.

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Once scientists can completely replicate a human brain through whole brain emulation, then that information can be uploaded to a computer to digitally represent a person's consciousness.

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Could it be that extraterrestrials who already possess this capability have come forth by uploading their consciousness into artificial bodies?

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There are some theoretical physicists who say not only is this possible, but that this is how humans will eventually lead the planet and travel the stars.

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Bokeh Chica, Texas

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SpaceX announces the successful test flight of its Starship prototype Star Hopper.

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The founder of the private aerospace company, billionaire Elon Musk, has also been at the forefront of efforts to upgrade humankind.

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It is his belief that both pursuits are critical to ensuring the survival of the human race.

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It's interesting that today we have these adventurer billionaires like Elon Musk, and they want to put computer chips in our brains, even map our own consciousness and put that in a robot or cyborg.

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And they're wanting to go into space at the same time, so in many ways they're like the alien explorers who came here in the past.

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I think with known technologies we can theorize that is within 100, within 200 years we're talking about fusion rockets and antimatter rockets capable of reaching the stars.

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And then I think we'll be sending robots into outer space that are actually avatars.

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I personally think this is the future of the space program, and I think we will do this using laser beams.

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If we can digitize the human brain, we can put that knowledge on a laser beam and shoot it to the moon.

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In one second you are on the moon.

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In 20 minutes you could be on Mars, and four years at the speed of light you could reach the nearby stars.

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And what would you do?

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If that laser beam goes to the moon, is then downloaded into an avatar.

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That avatar can withstand gravity fields, poisonous gases, radiation from the sun, and in fact I'll stick my neck out.

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I think this already exists. I think this is the preferred way for an advanced alien species to explore the universe.

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In fact, near the Earth there could be a digital highway with those digitized souls of billions of aliens going across the Milky Way galaxy.

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So I think when we meet aliens from outer space we should not be surprised if they're actually avatars that are controlled by the aliens in a distant star system.

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As entrepreneurs continue to invest billions in pursuit of both space travel and whole brain emulation, are we getting closer to becoming like the immortals our ancestors described thousands of years ago?

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And if these immortals were responsible for the creation of the human race, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, could this evolution be exactly what they intended for humankind all along?

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Why would extraterrestrials come to Earth and start a human project knowing that it would take thousands of years for us to develop?

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Well, it could perhaps be that extraterrestrials have a different perspective of time than we do.

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If we think of the extraterrestrials as immortal, time is irrelevant and their goal is to assist humanity to become more like them.

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There's a potential that humanity is going to become a star-faring nation that has long life because you're going to need that for some of these long journeys.

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But we might become more like the gods that seem to live for thousands of years and travel the heavens.

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Is humanity on the verge of becoming an intergalactic civilization?

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And if so, is it possible that we resettle this path by an extraterrestrial race that visited Earth thousands of years ago?

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Perhaps one day, the immortal gods, seen descending from the sky on a distant planet, will be us.

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