Imagine, if you will an alien species originating in a much denser galaxy and planet than the earth we find ourselves upon. Owing to the incredibly dense environment of their home planet, this species evolved senses and developed scientific equipment suited only to the observation, detection and analysis of only very dense materials.
Further imagine that this species travelled away from their planet and happened upon the planet Earth. With the particular senses which were part of their physiological makeup and the scientific equipment geared only to observation and analysis of the denser materials on the Earth such as iron, other metals, glass, concrete and a variety of inorganic minerals, these creatures became intrigued by the movements of certain entities on the surface of the Earth. Organic, carbon based beings such as plants, animals and humans completely escaped their detection.
These aliens became transfixed upon the cars, trucks, airplanes, ships, trains, etc. that moved about on the surface, air and waters of the Earth. Convinced as they were by the regular movements and somewhat predictable behaviours of the mechanical vehicles on the Earth, these aliens began to develop a theory of the evolution of the “life forms” on the planet.
The top scientists theorized that metallic based life forms on the earth evolved into more sophisticated forms based upon increments in speed, rather than survival. The higher evolved forms, such as airplanes, rockets and certain land based vehicles achieved extraordinary speeds - given their primitive mechanical structure - depending upon their efficient use of certain fossil based fuels which they sucked from underground or above ground metallic capsules, tubules or other stationary metallic lifeforms the aliens called “plants” because these did not move. The metallic animated forms would consume and be lubricated by undetectable compounds - it was speculated - which were extracted from underground by the stationary life forms, since these stationary forma often extended long tubules down into the crust of the earth into the hollow pockets that were found there…
Migration patterns of the mobile Earth life forms along certain asphalt or metallic pathways were tracked by the alienscientists over time. Certain patterns of behaviour were documented and generalized theories of how red colours affected these creatures by causing them to stop and green colours made them resume motion were published. The scientists generally agreed that Earth’s life forms were primitive metal based organisms that acted quite predictably, but had evolved based upon natural selection for speed. Faster organisms were more successful because they moved away from crowded conditions into the air or less trafficked trackways.
The existence of animals, plants and human beings completely escaped their attention. Anomalies such as why collisions between organisms occurred were explained by metallurgical defects in the less fit specimens. Since collisions occurred less frequently with the airborne forms, these were deemed more advanced.
Nowhere in their theorizing did these alien scientists suggest that the life forms on Earth had evolved even a semblance of intelligence, since the behaviour of Earth’s metal based inhabitants was quite predictable and “mechanical” in cause.
These scientist were convinced by the nature of their own sensory apparatus and of the equipment in their arsenal that intelligent life was not present on Earth. No where was there evidence of intentional planning, anticipation, creative or spontaneous behaviours that could be taken as signs of intelligence. The asphalt roadways and metal trackways grew “crystal-like” in the environment and the vehicular inhabitants took advantage of the pathways to bump up their speed.
More complex vehicles capable of higher speeds could survive whereas slower outmoded vehicles less capable of speed increases were naturally culled by increments in speed. They simply could not keep up so they meandered away from trackways into solitary existence where they gradually decomposed as a result of natural chemical processes such as rusting.
What these scientists had failed to notice, because of the limitations of their “scientific” gear and empirical faculties was that even though the mechanical motions of the devices used by the undetectable - to the aliens - biological and intelligent life forms (humans) on the earth, these movements were - to the aliens - predictable and explicable by cause-effect analysis. The biological forms, that had escaped their attention, were actually piloting the mechanical devices and furthermore were engaged in a myriad of activities like writing books, doing scientific analysis, developing technology, etc. which were the intelligent underpinnings of the metal based devices that escaped alien detection. What the aliens mistook as primitive and unintelligent behaviours of mechanical vehicles was, in reality, the metallic “wake” of the more meaningful behaviours of the undetectable intelligent beings piloting the vehicles. Furthermore, the aliens missed completely the fact that the vehicles on the Earth did not evolve but were the calculated result of careful design and crafting by the intelligent soft life form that had completely escaped their attention.
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