By Ellis Silver
Nonfiction to conspiracy genre
Rating- 4/5 for the attention grab 3/5 for everything else!
Long post alert!
While listening to the pale blue dot and trying to search something about evolution; I chanced upon this article on how this ecologist and Environmentalist called Ellis Silver states that humans are not from this planet! And how his book elaborates on this! The interesting fact is that this is the second corrected and more researched edition! So even though the claim sounds crazy it made me think how the claim that its not the sun but it is the earth which moves around would have sounded to the general public and the scientific community thousands of years back!
So these are some snippets on what you can expect from the book!
Our body’s natural (circadian) rhythm doesn’t match the Earth’s 24-hour clock. This is simple enough to prove: you just deprive people of external stimuli, such as daylight and clocks, and let them wake and sleep and turn the lights on and off whenever they like. After about two weeks they’ll settle into their body’s natural sleep-wake cycle, completely out of step with the outside world, where each day lasts around 25 hours. We aren’t usually deprived of external stimuli, of course, and our biological clocks reset each morning as soon as the daylight hits our eyes. But as we’re an hour short, we feel pretty rotten when this happens. Many of us feel a massive resistance when it’s time to get up in the morning!
He says that there are only three violent animals in the world. These animals behave violently even if it’s not for food or self-defense! That means they will fight and torture other species without any rhyme or reason! The species are Chimpanzees, Dolphins (big surprise for me too!) And the top; humans! (No surprises there!). In fact humans are born with the instinct of violence which they control their whole life! The author states that this may be why the aliens of our original planet would have transported us to this prison Earth!
He informs us about cognitive dissonance which is the psychological discomfort of trying to hold two opposing views at the same time. One such view is Panspermia; which is the theory that life exists throughout the universe and is carried to other worlds by comets and meteorites and so on.
The specific part of panspermia that interests scientists here is exogenesis – the theory that life originated elsewhere in the universe and was brought to Earth. This theory was first proposed in 1871 and, although it remains on the fringes of science, it’s highly plausible. Francis Crick, one of the co-dis-coverers of DNA, was a keen supporter!
He mentions a set of out-of-place artifacts such as the anomalous maps like the Piri Reis map which was created in Istan-bul, Turkey in 1513 and rediscovered in 1929. It shows the coastlines of Africa and South America with almost perfect accuracy. That level of accuracy shouldn’t have been possible at that time.
We couldn’t measure longitude properly until accurate marine chronographs were invented in the 1790s. The map also shows the coastline of Queen Maud’s Land, Antarctica, including sections that have been under two miles of ice for the last two million years. And it shows mountain ranges that were only discovered in 1952. As far as we’re aware, no humans even saw Antarctica until 1820!
There are signs of ancient nuclear explosions in Rajasthan, near Jodhpur and in the Sahara Desert in and around Libya. Several sites in northern India are also contaminated by radiation.
The radioactive contamination in Rajasthan has been dated to about 12,000 years ago, but it could be older. It appears to have been caused by an atomic bomb, equivalent in size to those the Us dropped on Japan during World War II. But the radiation level there today is around fifty times higher than at the Japanese sites. This cannot be explained by the current evolutionary biologists!
The appendix was thought to be the diminished remnant of the long caecum, which herbivores have to help digest cellulose. Now we’re herbivores at heart, but we don’t need to digest cellulose, so the appendix was considered redundant in us. But researchers have discovered that it stores beneficial gut bacteria. Diseases such as cholera and dysentery can kill off these bacteria in the main digestive/fecal stream, but those in the appendix are safely out of harm’s way. And that means they can repopulate the digestive system once the pathogen has passed! We can survive perfectly well without an appendix, but those who have had theirs removed may suffer an increased risk of conditions such as colitis.
In another note by Ellis Silver, he mentions how most animals wake up when they are exposed to increased levels of carbon dioxide. Now This is a useful response as it allows them to flee from things like forest fires! But Carbon dioxide has opposite effect on us, it either sends to sleep or puts us into a deeper sleep! This Could be one of the worst possible responses which kills millions of people, especially before the advent of smoke alarms! Thousands of people owe their life to the pets such as dogs and cats for waking them up when their house caught on fire!
Just as we can’t safely eat raw meat, we also can’t drink from impure water sources, even though they present no problems to any other species. Dogs, for example, come to no harm whatsoever if they drink from puddles, muddy streams and rivulets, gutters in the street, or even toilets!
We have to boil, filter or chemically treat our drinking water to make it safe. The consequences of not doing so are dire!
Dogs have the physiology of meat-eaters, and one of the main benefits of that is having stomach acid twenty times stronger than ours. This could be one reason why they can drink straight out of the toilet while we can’t (though I am sure no one is longing for that!)
The other reasons range from humans suffering from bad backs – which he suggests is because we evolved in a world with lower gravity – to getting too easily sunburned and having difficulty giving birth. Dr Ellis says that while the planet meets humans’ needs for the most part, it does not perhaps serve the species’ interests as well as the aliens who dropped us off imagined.
Dr Ellis would be surprised if one could find a single person who is 100 per cent healthy and not suffering from some perhaps hidden or unstated condition or disorder and this might be because our body clocks have evolved to expects a 25 hour day, as proven by sleep researchers! He suggests that Neanderthals such as homo erectus were crossbred with another species, perhaps from Alpha Centauri!
You would think that even World-class athletes such as Usain Bolt must surely be physically perfect and totally free from chronic conditions right? But it’s not the case. Usain Bolt was born with scoliosis (curvature of the spine) and also has hyperactive disorder according to this book by Ellis Silver called Humans are not from earth! There are thousands of chronic, hidden (or mostly hidden) ailments, disabilities or afflictions that affect us. In fact, there is no person in the world who is hundred percent healthy both mental and physical! He or she will have some ailment or the other ranging from trivial issues (for classification sake only since it may not be trivial to the person!) like anxiety to major problems like anemia or allergy!
Scientists have also found structural differences between black and white skin!
Dark skin is thicker and dermis is more compact this provides protection against skin cancer and explains what people with dark skin typically get fewer wrinkles than those with light skin. Even so, if you compare the thickness of dark skin with that of bear skin and mammals, such as an elephant or rhino human skin is much thinner! Interestingly, elephants are pretty much immune to cancer! Geneticists have found that they have 20 copies of the cancer suppressing Gene while humans have only one! This gene p53 (TP53) churns out copies of the p53 protein if it detected that a cell has suffered DNA damage or it kills the cell if the damage is too severe! So cancer does not have a chance to develop!
p53 gives freedom from cancer
He talks about different animals, about lactose intolerance and so many things in favor of his theory!
Worm hole and warp drives! Yes you get a good description! Really interesting to read! And one of the most interesting chapters for a science fiction fan like me!
He mentions about how chemists have carried out experiments that simulated the atmospheric chemistry of the early Earth and then added electricity to simulate lightning strikes. The best known of these (the Miller-Urey experiment) was performed in the early 1950s by Stanley Miller at the University of Chi-cago. His chemical mix of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapor was slightly off, but it produced amino acids – the building blocks of proteins. Repeating Miller’s experiment with this chemical mix of rock at that time also produces amino acids. Another experiment found that a type of pre-RNA could have formed spontaneously when molecules of barbituric acid and melamine combined!
Another “Alien” thing he mentioned (though throughout the book he mentioned many!); The Antikythera mechanism which is the first-known analog computer – is thought to date from about 205 BC. But it incorporates technologies that were previously unknown until the 14th century AD. It was found in 1902 among objects recovered from a shipwreck off one of the Greek islands. It may have been designed for calculating astronomical and astrological positions, or as a navigational tool, but the latest theory is that it was probably a teaching aid for philosophers. But how did it come to exist 1,500 years before we developed any comparable technology?
Now, there are so many unanswered questions even in science or mathematics but not everyone or everything needs to be answered!
He debunks known evolutionary biologists by poking holes in their theories all supplemented by references! He does not spare creationists either!
He gives a list of Alien landings and also Alien tech (including so many techs we use today!). On top of all this he also gives a timeline of the actual deposition of humans on Earth and the evolution according to him!
Still not astonished!? Well, he also mentions in passing about Alien treaty with US president and how may have seen Aliens and the icing; how he has met two of them!
A very interesting book which kept my attention till the last page and I was almost sad to see it end!
The last five percent of the whole book is the reference which has been classified and pointed out on the lines of a scientific discussion! The only way you can read the book is to be open minded and listen to all the arguments with an open mind! A true scientific mind does not accept and more importantly reject anything without proof!
All in all a fresh perspective on evolution when I am in ocean of books by Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan!
Do check it out!
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