We All Came From Outer Space

Like many enquiring minds, a subject that has often crossed my thought processes is the question of where did we come from. Over time there have been a great many claims, some religious, others scientific. None of the claims have ever been conclusively proven. And, in an effort to put forward my own solution to this problem, this brings me to yet another unproven subject, the Fermi Paradox.

"The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence.[1][2] As a 2015 article put it, "If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now."[3]" Wikipedia.

In short, if we accept the extremely high likelihood of there being life on other planets - a statistical hypothesis that inspired Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi to exclaim, " Where is everybody?" - then we could be quite easily looking at a not unreasonable claim that we came from out of space.

There are expected to be billions of planets in the universe capable of supporting some form of organic life. And yet there is not the slightest shred of evidence that there has ever been anybody but ourselves. It would seem that we are unique, rarer than any other cosmic lottery winner. And yet...

It seems to me that the earth is awash with evidence of there having been other lives than ours. And that evidence is, of course, us. For me, the idea that we ourselves came from out of space is no more far-fetched than the holy bible. And yet millions of people willingly accept the biblical model that God made us all, and only us, and at the same time totally reject any other theory. These days even certain religious leaders have conceded to the possibility of life on other planets.

With the discovery of an increasing number of habitable planets, a number that is expected to reach up to billions, it is becoming increasingly likely that we will eventually have some form of a close encounter of the third kind.

It has been claimed that life on Earth began in Africa some two million years ago. This begs one or two questions. One, where did those original people come from? Two, how do we get so many extreme variations of race from one? Are we to believe that the Asians, the Hispanic, and the Europeans, all came from one race black Africa?

I personally believe that all the different races on Earth came from different planets somewhere in the cosmos. I think that a group of other, highly intelligent, extraterrestrial beings organised a planet-hopping Round-Robin trip, doing Noah-like pick-ups, before eventually dropping everybody off on planet Earth.

Now this very neatly resolves the Fermi Paradox and at the same time answers the question of where did we all come from. It also brings into focus what I think we should do next.

Every year we spend billions of dollars exploring space hoping to find another planet, like Mars, for example, that we can inhabit to escape the inevitable eventual destruction when the Sun does its little Supernova dance of death and collapses into a cosmic heap of ash. It seems to me that we should spend all of those space exploration billions on improving the quality of life here on Earth. However, that is just me coming over all ideological. I do believe that there is a different take on space exploration.

I am now old enough to be cynical enough to treat everything with a healthy dose of deep suspicion. And it occurred to me that what today's politicians are really all about in exploring space is to see if they can discover from which planet exactly we all came. Then when they have ascertained all of our different places of origin, they can ship us all back to where we originally started.

In the meantime, perhaps they can build a space station and locate it off the coast of planet Earth, like the United Kingdom with its immigrant barge, and fill it with undesirables prior to being sent onward to where they came from. It's one way of depopulating the planet, if nothing else.

One way or another, we all came from outer space, and one way or another, that is exactly where we will all end up. As for why exactly we exist at all, we simply do, deal with it.