#675

Who's to say this all hasn't happened before?

The time since the last ice age is said to be 20,000 years ago. With that in mind, we don't have any solid record of history at all, in any shape or form, from 6000 years ago and before. None. Dinosaurs became extinct 65,000,000 years ago, cuz we have a few fossils and bones and shit. How many ice ages did they go through?

What if the earth's elliptical orbit was actually growing in average diameter by say, one centimeter per hundred years? If earth has completed billions of laps around the sun, while the sun pulses - changing the actually distance from the surface, never mind that it is growing - how long would it take to spin out of control and be sling-shotted into deep space? We don't have the technology to know yet. We didn't have public cellular phones forty years ago. People did not believe we could fly a hundred and fifty years ago. It was thought preposterous. Three hundred years ago you'd be a witch, and they would kill your ass.

So what am I getting at...

What if for the last few million years, humans get to a level of technology the same as where we are today? ...in between ice ages of course. Some make it much farther than we, and some not so much. If there is one thing we know the powers that be are good at, it's keeping secrets. Who's to say there wasn't some satellite from before the last ice age that was still spinnin' around the old blue planet. Could be that's how a lot of this technology came so quickly, because seriously, flying was easy. No one took the time to look. They were bicycle builders in Ohio that were probably on a long bicycle ride and just started looking at how birds were able to fly.

I digress.

How about oil? How do we know that the huge deposits won't refill in 40,000 years if we stopped pumping today? We don't. We've only used oil pumped out of the ground for a hundred years or so. Hell, no one used it three hundred years ago. We have no idea what the next fuel du jour will be, but it won't be oil based. Keep in mind, we've known of electricity for less than 500 years, and at that time, land with oil seeping out of it was crap.

Look at Route 66. It was THE way across the Midwest to California. There are parts of it now that are dirt, and rutted, and crappy, and terrible. Look at how cheaply structures have become. Everything is made cheap compared to years ago. When someone built a home out of stone 500 years ago, that mother fucker was meant to last. Now we use stone facing, cheap pine studs, and chalk between two pieces of paper. How many stone structure out west has lived through a hundred years of tornado's? How many trailer parks? Cheap. Shit will just fall apart if un-kept for twenty years. Want proof? Look at Detroit. When the Romans built their roads and buildings, they made them to last. However, they wouldn't last an ice age.

Let me remind you, the last ice age ended 20,000 years ago, 400 times the amount of time we have actual recorded history, and there have been many before. We think we know about the ice ages of the last 650,000 years, which is 130,000 times the amount of actual recorded history and one tenth of the time until the dinosaurs strolled around.

We don't know shit.

Like I said, who's to say this hasn't happened before?

Science says the first human to wander from home and populate the earth came from central Africa. That would be a fun place to be during an ice age, don'tcha think? As beautiful as the Appalachian Mountains can be in winter, you won't find me there hangin' out under a glacier. No one is living in that. Now how do you grow all this damn food to feed all these people when half of the Northern Hemisphere is under fifty feet of ice? You don't. That's when a bunch of people get really hungry, then they go away.

How do we know that after each ice age, the natives don't get cabin fever and start moseying off to other lands for new adventures?

...and every once in a while, when they get just enough time, they invent ipads.