Tuesday, March 27, 2012

First Civilization Part 2 Chapter 13

 

 

The migration from Mars to Earth did not happen all at once but gradually over a long period of time.  This story is about some of the last of the migrants who came to Earth. The story concerns the Ancient Astronauts who landed in Eurasia.  Their starship landed in an outpost area previously explored so there was equipment on the ground where they landed.

 

spaceship by outpost

The Supreme Leader wanted to move to a less conspicuous location.  So they sent the clones down to dismantle the outpost and brought the equipment to a new location.  They landed in the area of Mount Ararat.  Mount Ararat  is a snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone in Turkey. It has two peaks: Greater Ararat (the tallest peak in Turkey, and the entire Armenian plateau with an elevation of 5,137 m/16,854 ft) and Lesser Ararat (with an elevation of 3,896 m/12,782 ft).

 

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The Peaks of Mount Ararat

The Ararat massif is about 40 km (25 mi) in diameter. They landed according to ancient tradition near Mount Masis, the highest peak in the Armenian Highland, which is therefore also called Mount Ararat.  Mount Ararat is located in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey near the border with Iran, Armenia and Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, between the Aras and Murat Rivers. Its summit is located some 16 km (10 mi) west of the Iran and 32 km (20 mi) south of the Armenian border. The Ararat plain runs along its northwest to western side:

 

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The clones had many of their creator's genetic traits which were not discrete features but were instead traits that controlled height and skin color. These complex traits were products of many genes. The influence of these genes was mediated, to varying degrees, by the environment they had  to adapt to.. The degree to which an organism's genes contribute to a complex trait is called heritability.  So the clones looked like the Ancient Astronauts themselves outwardly.  Each member of the crew was required to donate DNA for the clone reproduction.  Their clones were their offspring since they could not reproduce among themselves.  The full set of hereditary material in humans (usually the combined DNA sequences of all chromosomes) is called the genome.  It was like that with the Ancient Astronauts. They like other species had so called sex chromosomes, which are special in that they determine the sex of the individual.  

 

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One the Ancient Astronaut Clones

Asexual reproduction is  used by in multicellular organisms including  clones, producing offspring that inherit their genome from a single parent. Offspring that are genetically identical to their parents are called clones and this was how the Ancient Astronauts made them.  But they did not give them the same amount of knowledge or intelligence they possessed only a high percentage of it.  They were capable of learning and acquiring new knowledge.  They had all the emotional traits of their creators.
At this time the area around Mount Ararat was covered in lush forests and not a bare hilly area like today.  They wanted to find a location to hide their spaceship and build a landing pad for it there.

 

spaceship repair

Building a landing pad on an unknown alien world can be deadly work

The Ancient Astronauts with anti-gravity beams raised up the spacecraft allowing the clones to build a pad on the ground where the ship could lay so that it fit in with the area they were located. First they had to clear the area of growth around the pad while concealing it.  For the pad they constructed it from natural materials found in the area, earth, rocks, and materials from the original outpost.

 

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The remains of the landing pad today

 

The clones also had emotions just like their creators.  Their desire for companionship was one of their strongest drives and that is what was to cause them trouble.  They seeing their masters with female and male partners, they  wanted the same  form of  romantic relationship not knowing they had the same reproductive problems as their creators. They had never been told.  Their creators thought it would not be an issue.  But some of the clones wandered off and returned. They tried sexual intercourse with each other.  They were warned that they were putting everyone's life in danger by wandering off.  Then they were told they were not made to have children.  Their job was to serve their creators.  But when head counts were taken daily some of the clones came up missing at each count.  The Supreme leader at a council meeting said," Now they think they know more than us."  But the Supreme leader added at the council meeting said," We should eliminate those who have been disobedient and treat those who have obeyed with gratitude and happiness."  But no one agreed on the method of elimination so nothing was done.

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