So the other day, I posted a what if about how maybe the meteor that killed the dinosaurs was actually a spaceship, and humans were the aliens. Then I went through my Pinterest, because I was reminded of a writing prompt I had saved. In that one, the first manned mission to Mars, finds a mountain with a craft on top of it roughly the dimensions of Noah's ark. The craft is a DNA repository. I'm not a huge sci-fi fan, but that whole concept fascinated me. I need a book written now.
The ark is a ship, a spaceship, and it is way easier to take two of each creature if you just bring their dna. The reason we don't correspond geographically with the events in the Bible is because they took place on another planet, and it is the same with other religions and myths. They all started as one, but we left our original home for whatever reason. As we traveled from planet to planet, new stories and ideas developed over time, and mixed with the original religion as well as the ones we found on those planets. Norse and Greek mythology? It happened. The monsters of those myths? Other alien races on the planet. The gods? Maybe they were real, a high council, an elite team of warriors, maybe it was just a bunch of great movie characters everyone knew, and we've forgotten they were actors. Maybe that giant turtle with the world in it's back was a giant space station, and we called it the sea turtle, because of how it moved between the stars. We are a non-native species, and that means we have no natural predator to keep us in check, so we destroy these planets over time like the viruses we are, then move to a new one, and begin all over again. Knowledge is lost as we have to begin civilisations all over again, and survival outranks higher learning. That's why there seem to be man-made structures in the pictures we take of planets. We made them before we left. We make sci-fi movies about the dangers of space trying to scare ourselves into taking care of this planet, and staying put for once. Those movies and tv shows show the dangers of terraforming a planet or attempting to control it's weather through technology, because we've done it before, and it didn't end so well. Humans stare at the stars, and feel a sense of wonder, sometimes longing. We know where we came from, and we miss our home. We know where we have been. We know what we have done to other planets, other races. We know what we'll do to this planet. We just don't understand what we know.
