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Authors: Theo Marais
Tags: mars, alien intervention, environmental conservation, habitable planet, communication with cetaceans, dolphins and whales, messages from cetaceans, what is life and death, what is progress
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Our minds were reeling with the implications
of what we were hearing. Was their legend of the aliens bringing
them there really true? There did seem to be a direct connection
between the dolphins on the two planets, but how could there be a
connection with such a vast distance between them? How did our
dolphins have such strong prejudices and fears against us from
their legends, when we had only recently met them? How did they
know of other cetaceans, their ‘cousins’, on another planet? What
was giving them such confidence and power that they could warn and
threaten us, demanding changes in our behaviour? Changes that we
have only relatively recently realised were necessary for the
survival of us and all life on Earth, and which we have been
struggling so hard to implement effectively.
The dolphins kept us guessing for ages.
Then one day we heard what the origin of the
legends was, and it was almost word-for-word what Aristotle, the
whale, had told us a few years ago at Plettenberg Bay. It seems
that two pairs of juvenile dolphins were brought to Earth 2 after
being ‘abducted’ by aliens from Earth, possibly 15 000 years ago.
The reason appears to be that life on Earth was threatened by
massive asteroid strikes, and the aliens were trying to re-locate
as much life as they could on the nearest habitable planet, which
already had its own flora and fauna. It appears that they
deliberately did not bring humans or other large predators.
Fortunately, the first four dolphins had
produced eight off-spring by the time they died, leaving a large
enough gene pool for their long-term survival, and indeed, they
thrived in their new environment. But now, they had mixed feelings
about seeing humans. They were happy to share the planet with other
intelligent beings, but they had heard from Earth cetaceans about
our history, and so they were worried that we may do the same here
on Earth 2. Had we really learned anything about the urgency of the
need for us to change our ways? Would we try our utmost to redeem
ourselves on Earth where we still had a slim chance? Would we make
a truly new start on Earth 2?
Their final message, and the source of the
threats of the ‘unspecified measures’ they could take in future,
was that the aliens had visited them again fairly recently and had
learned to communicate with them. They had warned the dolphins that
humans could be arriving and settling soon, and had promised to
return in a few years to check on developments. They had promised
the dolphins that they would deal decisively with humans if they
had started repeating their previous sins on Earth. However, if the
dolphins gave positive reports about human activities, the aliens
had said that they would make contact with them and start sharing
their vast store of knowledge and skills with them.”
CHAPTER 3
A pod of mostly senior dolphins meets near
the small bay. A senior female, who has arranged the meeting,
welcomes all warmly by name and they respond heartily.
“As you know, we are meeting here today to
discuss the human settlement, whether we think it is positive or
negative for our planet, and so whether to support it or not.”
A younger female responds, “Earth dolphins
have warned us about humans’ past destructiveness there. Do you
really think they are likely to have changed? I feel
ambivalent.”
An adult male reasons, “We have only a small
group of humans here and they have only relatively recently
arrived.
So it is very difficult to predict how they
will behave in future, when there are more of them and they want
more food and start making big towns and factories like on Earth.
Will they eat all our fish and pollute the rivers and the sea and
the sky again? While we should keep these questions in mind, I
believe that we should give them a chance.”
“This is outrageous!” bursts out a younger
male. “We have seen that this is
Earth in this regard.
Our minds were reeling with the implications
of what we were hearing. Was their legend of the aliens bringing
them there really true? There did seem to be a direct connection
between the dolphins on the two planets, but how could there be a
connection with such a vast distance between them? How did our
dolphins have such strong prejudices and fears against us from
their legends, when we had only recently met them? How did they
know of other cetaceans, their ‘cousins’, on another planet? What
was giving them such confidence and power that they could warn and
threaten us, demanding changes in our behaviour? Changes that we
have only relatively recently realised were necessary for the
survival of us and all life on Earth, and which we have been
struggling so hard to implement effectively.
The dolphins kept us guessing for ages.
Then one day we heard what the origin of the
legends was, and it was almost word-for-word what Aristotle, the
whale, had told us a few years ago at Plettenberg Bay. It seems
that two pairs of juvenile dolphins were brought to Earth 2 after
being ‘abducted’ by aliens from Earth, possibly 15 000 years ago.
The reason appears to be that life on Earth was threatened by
massive asteroid strikes, and the aliens were trying to re-locate
as much life as they could on the nearest habitable planet, which
already had its own flora and fauna. It appears that they
deliberately did not bring humans or other large predators.
Fortunately, the first four dolphins had
produced eight off-spring by the time they died, leaving a large
enough gene pool for their long-term survival, and indeed, they
thrived in their new environment. But now, they had mixed feelings
about seeing humans. They were happy to share the planet with other
intelligent beings, but they had heard from Earth cetaceans about
our history, and so they were worried that we may do the same here
on Earth 2. Had we really learned anything about the urgency of the
need for us to change our ways? Would we try our utmost to redeem
ourselves on Earth where we still had a slim chance? Would we make
a truly new start on Earth 2?
Their final message, and the source of the
threats of the ‘unspecified measures’ they could take in future,
was that the aliens had visited them again fairly recently and had
learned to communicate with them. They had warned the dolphins that
humans could be arriving and settling soon, and had promised to
return in a few years to check on developments. They had promised
the dolphins that they would deal decisively with humans if they
had started repeating their previous sins on Earth. However, if the
dolphins gave positive reports about human activities, the aliens
had said that they would make contact with them and start sharing
their vast store of knowledge and skills with them.”
CHAPTER 3
A pod of mostly senior dolphins meets near
the small bay. A senior female, who has arranged the meeting,
welcomes all warmly by name and they respond heartily.
“As you know, we are meeting here today to
discuss the human settlement, whether we think it is positive or
negative for our planet, and so whether to support it or not.”
A younger female responds, “Earth dolphins
have warned us about humans’ past destructiveness there. Do you
really think they are likely to have changed? I feel
ambivalent.”
An adult male reasons, “We have only a small
group of humans here and they have only relatively recently
arrived.
So it is very difficult to predict how they
will behave in future, when there are more of them and they want
more food and start making big towns and factories like on Earth.
Will they eat all our fish and pollute the rivers and the sea and
the sky again? While we should keep these questions in mind, I
believe that we should give them a chance.”
“This is outrageous!” bursts out a younger
male. “We have seen that this is
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