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My first thought: "Are you f*cking serious?"

Ancient Aliens brah. 6 seasons brah.

jatan plz. Is common belief. :P

Um, that is more books (Daniken) than video games, unless I missed some doing it -.-"

If you didn't know that is a common theory then perhaps you played too many video games and should stop insulting OP for your own lack of information.

I guess to much History Channel (what does it even have to do with history nowadays btw o.O)

yep.

Humans...

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I haven't watched that movie yet, don't spoil it please.

That's creepy. Hypnotic.

As paradoxical as quantum qubit's superposition, and we take that as fact.

What will really blow your mind is if, like feynman's doulbe-slit experiment, when we go looking to the stars, simply by looking we generate new matter. We could be.. by looking too early, before we can even get to these stars, putting our own fate of exploring and continuing out existence out of our reach of any technology we create.

Tag that on to OP's original idea, and our future selves could have been telling us to ONLY look at these stars we've assigned by giving us the awesome structures so that our future won't be a loss. That's not to say in the future we can't time travel, but we might never be able to leave our system.

A procedurally generated universe.

That is ridiculous. It would probably be a ferret of sorts.

Heh, I got a 30 day ban on the History Channel forums for bringing up this very point a couple years ago.

I think that as well. Besides, like we have our "genuises" from more or less recent times (Einstein, Curie, etc.), they might have had them as well. Their genuises might have been involved in some of those things we marvel at.

In any case, if people think of huamns in the past as primitive, or less developed, I don't think they will readily accept that the people then, could've been smart enough to develop their own things.

Thanks a million times, I've been looking for years for the actual name of this phenomenon!

No, you misread. Read again.

what if the moon does not exist

What if the dark side of the moon is full of Nazis?

Perhaps Paganius' current avatar represents alien intent.

Think about it. If aliens are pointing us in the direction they want us to go, who says we're not going to go through a wormhole, land on an alien brothel-planet, and get a bucket of alien urine dropped on our heads as we enter the front door?

And what if Battlestar Galactica got it right that man and machine will be in conflict with each other throughout all of eternity and are just suffering through cycles of peace and war before our ultimate annihilation. Or what if Mass Effect got it right that one sentient being will be chosen by the oldest of the machines to decide whether all life is ready to join the machines and stop the cycle all-together. Or what if Spielberg's A.I. got it right that machines will actually replace all life throughout the universe and will become the only living proof that we ever existed and will remember us as creator gods. I don't know where I'm going with this...

On a more serious note. It is extremely unlikely that earth possesses the only intelligent life in this universe. The odds of this planet, being the only one to have that. Is insanely small.

Of course, it does not mean that who or what ever they are are more advanced, or not. Just means that other species exists beyond this solar system somewhere. Hell, its still possible some life exists on other planets in our solar system. Its really hard for us to tell for sure since we can not visit those planets in person. Now before you mention the machines we have used.. we have only looked at the surface of those planets. Nothing underneath.

Hell, for all we know, there could easily be some intelligent life form on earth that we have yet to discover. We still discover new species of animals/insects/ect every day as is on Earth.

Of course, you are also wrong with your what if possibility regardless. If humans are wiped out, there is still something. I honestly feel that humans will not outlive the universe. Heck, unless we really start getting things into gear, we might not even exist even before this planet dies. We will be in serious trouble food wise in one thousand or so years from now ( possibly sooner even ) if our population keeps growing at the rate it has compared to deaths.

What if you wouldn't respond with a pointless comment.

Not being able to go back in time is impossible. NO matter what anybody says.

Really? First time I experience someone with proper grammar posting something like this.

Going back in time is just a matter of choosing dimensions.