From: Bob Tidwell <bob.t@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 22:30:50 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:02:43 -0400
Subject: Phenomenon # 8 - Part 2
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# 8 - Part 2 Strangeness Around us
May 17, 1998
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Part 2
*** The Grays - and their Long Journey Home
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The Grays - and their Long Journey Home
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Of all the different types of aliens, we seem to be fascinated
the most by the Grays. In fact, the bald oval head with the large
almond-shaped eyes and pointed chin has become the standard icon
for our concept of all aliens, even to the point of becoming cute
to look at. The alien head now adorns everything from key chains
to t-shirts, and is used in all kinds of advertising, regardless
of whether or not it has anything at all to do with real aliens
or ETs.
But who is this small gray being, and where do they come from?
Are they visitors from other worlds in the cosmos, genetic
creations, other dimensional beings, time travelers, etc... ?
The first thing that immediately stands out is the fact that even
with their strange alien look, they are still roughly humanoid in
general appearance. This resemblance alone opens the door to all
kinds of questions regarding their ancestry. So, let's take a
look at several possible theories as to their possible origins,
and see where it leads.
Are the Grays actual extraterrestrial beings from another planet
in our universe? They certainly do have an alien look to them,
and they do fly around in what we call flying saucers. But, how
could a being from another planet light years away have so many
human physical characteristics? They may be small, gray and
baldheaded, but they are still humanoid. Their eyes are big and
almond shaped, but they're still eyes, and they're in the right
spot on the head.
Come to think of it, the mouth, nose and ears are also in the
correct places. They have a torso, with two arms, having hands
with fingers, and they also have two legs with feet. The clothes
may look a little strange, for now that is, but they do generally
wear clothes. I thought alien beings from another planet were
supposed to have round fat bodies with bug eyes, or am I thinking
about Rodney Dangerfield? (I know that I don't usually pick on
anyone, but he doesn't get any respect anyway :-)
There have been reports of beings that do look like they came
from another planet, but the Grays are too similar to us. There
have been sightings of Grays that are much taller than the more
common shorter ones, but the Japanese are also getting taller,
now that we've put Mc Donalds over there. (Um, maybe I've come up
with a possible answer for the cattle mutilations.)
Maybe the Grays are from another dimension, one in which lighting
conditions are the reason for the grayish skin color and large
eyes. But, then again, they still look too humanoid.
They could be an engineered species, bred to pilot the saucers,
and to conduct medical examinations. The Grays do seem to be
orientated to those specific tasks, and the reported lack of
reproductive organs doesn't seem to indicate a self-replicating
race, other than by artificial means. (No wonder they never
smile)
An engineered race would also serve to hide the actual masters
from us, even though these masters have been observed on
occasion, and appear to look human like us, or resemble a being
that may have an ancestry going back to the dinosaurs. If this is
true, then any of the above could be correct, since genetic
material from humans could have been used in the process.
If the Grays are actually alien life forms from another world,
then it would seem to indicate a grand master plan within the
Cosmos, a plan that requires a humanoid body in order to allow a
"brain" to evolve. After all, can we have intelligent thought
without a physical brain? This idea alone would take an entire
article to explore.
But, for the time being, I would like to suggest a more
down-to-earth answer to the riddle of the Grays. They are simply,
us, but from an Earth in the distant future. Before you say "Bob,
you've really lost it on this one", let's look at the facts.
By evolutionary laws, the human race is changing. Women are not
breast-feeding their babies as much any more, and they're not
having as many children either, on a worldwide average. This is
slowly resulting in smaller breasts, and the hourglass figure is
giving way to more straighter lines. If you don't believe this,
just look at the women in old movies and compare them to the
women of today. Also, look at the women in the old paintings of
the Masters. I'm not saying that this is a bad change, and most
men agree that the women of today are much more pleasant to look
at. (I wonder if I got through that one without getting too many
women upset with me? Besides, it's the women that are improving,
not the men. I can see the emails now! :-)
Anyway, the only thing that I'm pointing out here is that the
human race is evolving. Another change is with our concept of
sexuality itself. We humans think of sex more as a sport than as
a means of continuing the human race. In fact, at some point in
our future, our genetics will have reached the point where
procreation is no longer necessary. The pain of childbirth would
no longer have to be endured in order to have children. The
genetics of the man and woman would be combined in a birthing
institution, and a few months later, Junior is carried home.
The problem with this is that the DNA in our cells carry a
genetic memory that is directly influenced by it's environment,
namely us. Men no longer would have to impregnate women. Women
would no longer need men to have children. In fact, they wouldn't
even be going through the birth process at all. Just give a
little bit of their DNA to the lab, and let artificial nature
take it's course. Of course, the new DNA begins to know this, DNA
being as smart as it is, and starts to make changes of it's own.
One of the changes would be that sexual attraction is no longer
necessary in order to insure that the human race continues.
Humans would eventually turn to other, more intellectual, forms
of entertainment to amuse themselves. If being attractive to the
opposite sex is no longer necessary, our genetics would start to
change our appearance to reflect our new life styles. Our heads
would grow bigger, because of the increased brain activity
resulting from not having to think about sex all the time, and
since being pleasant to look at wouldn't matter any longer, why
have all of that hair to worry about.
Our diet would most certainly change. With our increasing
population, it's getting harder to provide as much meat in our
diet. The new forms of reduced protein foods might result in
smaller humans, which could also be affected by reduced amounts
of human labor, which is constantly being replaced, or made
easier, by robot machines.
A change that is taking place already because of our diet, is
that we don't need our molar teeth any longer, because of the
softer, easier to chew foods. Dentists will tell you that our
jaws are now too short for us to keep our wisdom teeth any more.
That why we have to have them pulled. Sooner or later, they will
genetically go away altogether.
Since we no longer have as many craftsmen in the World, turning
out intricate works with fine detail, our little fingers are no
longer needed. The same can be said of our little toes, being
kept inside shoes most of the time, and not needed for support.
What will the atmosphere be like in our future. We're cutting
down the rain forests at an alarming rate, and allowing various
chemicals to permeate the air. Our internal organs would have to
slowly adjust to these new conditions, and our eyes would evolve
into a more efficient means of seeing through the haze, and
protecting the pupils from the harsher, more acid atmosphere. Our
skins would develop a new color, with a harder, more protective,
thickness.
What the human body could evolve into might include:
* A small slightly built torso with an enlarged brain, housed
within an oversized head.
* Large eyes with protective membranes to better see through the
altered atmosphere.
* A small slit-like mouth ,probably without teeth, or at least
having only a boney ridge.
* Skin with a more leathery outer layer, and maybe having a dull
gray color.
* Slender arms and legs with only four fingers and toes.
Beginning to sound familiar?
But the worst problem is still to come. All of those years of
non-breeding could eventually result in disastrous results for
this new human race of the future, one that could mean the end of
the human race altogether.
Our genetic memory could eventually forget how to pass on the
reproductive gene. This would mean that there could be a problem
with using DNA cells from their current donors. Of course there
could be a supply of Human DNA cells safely stored away some
place, but that would eventually be exhausted. Also, serious
health or genetic problems could arise, because of not having
fresh new DNA cells in the gene pool any more. (In much the same
way as each new generation of a photocopied document loses
integrity.)
At this point, the scientists and/or leaders of this future time
would attempt to find a more permanent solution to this
disastrous problem. An obvious solution would be to find a new
source of reproductive DNA, one that would once again contain the
building blocks that remember how to create a new life with
healthy genes. But where would this genetic material come from?
Mankind could, by this time, have spread themselves far out into
space, starting various colonies on different worlds. A search
would be initiated to catalog these different offshoots of
humanity, in hopes of finding a fresh new source of genetic
material. But alas, these sources are just as old as each other.
Certain races could carry genes that would be fatal to other
races, and still others may have reached the point to where their
DNA is no longer comparable to any other race. A little time may
have been bought, but the problem is still there, and is not
going away.
Genetic Engineers would eventually realize that the only solution
to this monumental problem would be to find a fresh supply of
uncorrupted genetic material that is common to all of the
different new races of mankind. The trouble is that this fresh
genetic source only exists back in their distant past, on the
home world of humanity - Earth.
Their scientists would then have the task of finding a means of
traveling back in time, in order to collect this fresh genetic
material. Time travel though, could be just as disastrous to a
future human race as the current problem. What would happen if
enough changes were made in just the right situations in the past
that could cause this future race to never have existed in the
first place. Great debates would probably ensue over this
monumental risk. But non-the-less, in the end they would all
likely be in agreement that this would be the only solution, but
great caution would have to followed.
After a time travel device is developed, tested and perfected (a
project that could take a very long time in itself), the next
decision would be as to which time period to return to. The first
trips would be short ones, to gather information about ancient
humanity during different periods of development. Chances are
that the time travelers would have very little idea as to what
they could expect to find in the distant past. These future
generations could be from thousands of years into the future, and
records could have been lost for a great variety of reasons. We
could face the same problems today, if we were going back say ten
to twenty thousand years.
Gathering information from the past would present a great challenge,
due to the fact that their current physical appearance
would make them immediately noticed. They might not even have a
precise idea as to what we really would look like. Our appearance
could be as strange to them as they are to us.
In order to obtain the best possible match to their future race,
the genetic material would have to be collected from a previous
time period that was the closest to their own time, but was still
only in the early stages of the changes yet to come, say the 20th
century, give or take a century.
The first target would possibly be in a time period that their
records indicated was not technologically advanced enough to
detect their time ships. This could be a hit or miss situation,
so they would probably pop into Earth orbit at different time
periods, monitor electronic signals from Earth, and pop back to
analyze the newly collected data. These first attempts might even
be automated devices, with an occupied craft to follow later.
Another method would be to send back an automated probe, and if
it didn't detect any electronic signals, to simply wait until we
had reached a certain level of communications technology before
sending back a time reference beacon.
Once they had managed to find a time in which their time ships
would not be detected in Earth orbit, the surface would have to
be visited in order to actually start collecting genetic
material. The time travelers would be astounded to discover vast
unbelievable amounts of fresh water, and a great abundance of
plant and animal life (Which could also be of great importance to
a depleted future Earth). The first reports back to the
scientists of the future would most likely not be believed, until
they also had journeyed back to this wondrous world of the past.
Plant and water samples would be the easiest to collect
undetected, but sooner or later human genetic material would also
be required for research and testing. Since great care with
altering future time is a great concern, these encounters would
be planned to blend with the customs, myths and legends of a time
period that didn't have mass communication abilities, say the
last two thousand years or so, excluding maybe our last
one-hundred years.
These encounters with our future selves would become the stories
of abduction by the wee people of legends; elves, gnomes,
leprechauns and such. These stories would tell of being taken to
fairy houses, and of sexual encounters with these unusual beings.
Usually, the hapless victims would return to fine that hours,
weeks, or even months and years had passed, but to them seemed
like only minutes or hours.
>From these time periods, the Grays could send small probes into
the near future on reconnaissance missions. These probes would be
known to us as foo fighters, ghost lights, and other small
unidentified glowing orbs of light. The grays would then follow
in their larger craft, disguised to resemble the aircraft of that
period, or in the next few years to come. We would assume that we
were seeing new inventions, or the latest secret military
aircraft.
Their geneticists could by this time have devised a means of
sending temporary genetic human constructs to the surface when
needed. These constructs, which we have given the name "men in
black" (MIB), would be necessary to keep certain individuals,
those who's accounts could seriously alter the course of future
time, from accurately presenting their stories. These individuals
would of course wonder why they were visited by these MIB, when
they had so far kept their sightings to themselves, and had
talked to no one else.
A major setback would come when they encountered an unusual
recent Earth technology - Radar. Several time ships could be lost
before they realized that these pulsed beams of microwave energy
were interfering with their anti-gravity drives. A few mishaps
could be dealt with by simply going back in time, but time travel
is full of strange paradoxes, and it could be that not all of
these loses could be altered by this method. In fact, it could
force the Grays to do something that they had hoped would not be
necessary, actually make formal contact with certain Governments
of this Earth. They would provide certain items of technology,
those that we would probably soon develop anyway on our own,
providing that these Governments would agree not to disclose the
official existence of the Grays.
Having the use of time travel, the Grays would also have the
advantage of looking ahead into our future years, to insure that
they would never be fully revealed. They might even discover a
future global catastrophe, one that could serve to erase their
gifts of technology to the near future generations.
There would still remain one very major problem though. Having
long ago given up personally bringing new life into their world,
and requiring the comfort of having a mate close to them, they
would slowly have lost their greatest treasure, the ability to
love someone or something.
Their first attempts at artificially replicating crossbreed
newborns from our genetic material would encounter a very serious
problem. Our DNA would still carry over into these newborns the
need to have a mother figure to provide spiritual nourishment in
the form of loving and caring, in order for their emotions to
properly develop during the early years of life.
The Grays, having acquired the use of telepathic communications
long ago, could also have further resulted in the masking of
certain emotions; other than fear, which all species need in
order to survive. The first crossbreeds could possibly develop
into mentally and/or emotionally deficient beings. This could
result in the Earth donor mothers being taken aboard their ships,
and being telepathically scanned in an attempt to discover what
necessary conditioning was being passed on to these children. The
Grays might even have the donor mothers hold the children, in
an attempt to pass along this required emotional conditioning.
This problem would most definitely have to be solved in order for
Human genetic material to be incorporated into the generations of
the far future, a problem that might take a very long time.
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So, if you're ever riding along on a lonely country road, late at
night, and a strange craft lands nearby with two small gray
beings, instead of saying "take me to your leader", they might
just ask "brother can you lend a gene?"
~~~ Bob ~~~
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