I've continued to ask myself, how could we
reseed civilization after a meteorite impact?
How could we save enough to get us off the
ground again? When you are talking about a
wall of water a mile high sweeping over the
whole earth, as only part of the aftermath,
and decades of virtually no sun or plant
growth due to dust in the air, how on earth
could enough of civilization's know how be
preserved to make such a life possible again?
Then it struck me: The Space Station! In
addition to being a vehicle for space exploration,
it may be the most important "insurance policy"
we have ever devised.
And a meteorite impact might not be the only
cause. Recent articles concerning the melting
of Greenland's ice sheets and the existence
of methane gas trapped in the ocean floors
that could be released by global warming --
causing a vicious circle that would be equally
deadly -- means that many possible "doomsday"
scenarios exist. The the space station may
be our one best "defense" against them.
In fact, it may have happened before. Stories
of the Norse gods living in Valhalla "above
the North pole", Von Dannikan's imaginary
space men, the flying ships from the legends
of ancient India, ancient maps that show an
accurate outline of Antartica -- an outline
that is at the moment covered over by ice, and
biblical references to the ark and various other
wonders of ancient myth could all be testament
to a pre-existing, highly advanced civilization
that met with just such a catastrophe.
If there were such a civilization, and if it
was indeed a space station that was responsible
for reseeding the culture, dozens of ancient
myths that could previously be understood only
as either imaginary or representative of
contact by alien beings could suddenly make
sense in an entirely new, and potentially
plausible way.
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