# What would happen if... (Aliens seeded some humans, not others) \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 7, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471 "2006-02-07T23:31:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![magpyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@magpyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magpyre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/21 "2006-02-08T03:10:39Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Are you serious? :dubious: about the room under the sphinx? yeah, its well documented, whats so wierd about it? its the theories about whats in it that go over the top, not the fact that its there. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/22 "2006-02-08T03:14:05Z")
> [@magpyre](#): > > Its not a rumor, it actually exsists, remote control bots have been sent in to have a look, but theres not a lot to look at! > > however the theory that the US and Russia have trained “remote viewers” that have seen inside and say there is a conspiracy to cover up the world changing secret in there is a bit of a non starter. > maybe its a note from god saying, “stop messing about you buggers and be nice” You were better off with “its just hypothetical!!” Anyhoo, let’s assume that evidence presents itself that some sizable fraction of the human species is of alien origin. Is there any way to exploit this for technological or scientific advancement? Are the alienspawn able to use newly-discovered alien artifacts of great power and mystery whose power is only exceeded by their mystery? If there’s no way to put the discovery to any practical use, what good is it? I predict such a discovery will be oohed and aahed over for a while, then quickly dismissed as useless to day-to-day life. ---
**Author:** ![magpyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@magpyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magpyre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/23 "2006-02-08T03:14:42Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > are you sure you’re not talking about the formerly unknown chamber inside the Great Pyramid? I think they’ve sent bots into it but haven’t reported anything major. > > I just wish we’d had some real info about it in time for Dr. Gene Scott to update his Pyramid teaching. No they found it when they were doing something with underground radar, the sphinx is quite fragile, so the Egyptian government wont allow any excavation work to be done, thats why they used the bots I would guess. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/24 "2006-02-08T03:17:03Z")
> [@magpyre](#): > > about the room under the sphinx? yeah, its well documented, whats so wierd about it? > > its the theories about whats in it that go over the top, not the fact that its there. No, about the: > [@](#): > > maybe its a note from god saying, “stop messing about you buggers and be nice” If we just let reason take a walk for a second and consider the preposition… what point is there in writing a note intended to give a message to all mankind and then hiding it under an alleged secret chamber under the Sphinx? I mean, if I want to leave a note for one of my coworkers I leave it in plain view, I don´t stuff it into the hollowed leg of one of the tables stashed away on the basement. Gee, I guess He has taken the “He works in misterious ways” way too seriously… ---
**Author:** ![magpyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@magpyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magpyre)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/25 "2006-02-08T03:24:37Z")
it would all depend on who found it. anyway its 3am, I’m going to bed! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/26 "2006-02-08T03:44:23Z")
> [@Anne Neville](#): > > That’s actually one of the more interesting aspect of this question to me- if blacks are from Earth and whites are from some other planet, where is everybody else from? Brooklyn? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/27 "2006-02-08T09:57:25Z")
> [@magpyre](#): > > so why are the indiginous folk of Australia black, when the country has every kind of zone within it, and why would white occour, and not just light brown, which would work just as well in western europe, also Inuit people are not white, which you would expect given their climate… > I would not have thought skin cancer was a big consideration as folk didnt live long enough to worry about developing it. As I said, it was a vast oversimplification; some ‘racial’ traits may be nothing more than founder legacies. But what exactly are you saying here? That you doubt natural selection played any part in human skin colour? C’mon, cards on the table please! ---
**Author:** ![Pope\_Bob\_The\_Pious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@Pope\_Bob\_The\_Pious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pope_Bob_The_Pious)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/28 "2006-02-08T10:13:16Z")
Isn’t this just the old Nation of Islam line rehashed? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/29 "2006-02-08T11:13:24Z")
Leaving aside the ludicrous and woo-woo aspects of this scenario, the bottom line is: If one race of humans were the result of seeding by aliens, they would not be able to interbreed with other races of humans, in fact we would probably call one or other group something other than ‘human’. This clearly isn’t the case, so it doesn’t matter. If the aliens cleverly engineered the seeded race so as to be able to interbreed with other races of humans, then their whole experiment would have been arbitrary and pointless, as they’d just be putting _more humans_ on the planet, so again, it doesn’t matter. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/30 "2006-02-08T13:12:39Z")
This is the stupidest, lamest variation on the “Christian Identity” ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian\_Identity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity)) thesis I have ever encountered. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/31 "2006-02-08T13:17:28Z")
> [@magpyre](#): > > about the room under the sphinx? yeah, its well documented, whats so wierd about it? Cite? At any rate, there’s nothing about it here – [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great\_Sphinx\_of\_Giza](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza) its the theories about whats in it that go over the top, not the fact that its there. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/32 "2006-02-08T13:30:08Z")
Isn’t the ‘room under the Sphinx’ one of Von Daniken’s babies? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/33 "2006-02-08T13:43:47Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Isn’t the ‘room under the Sphinx’ one of Von Daniken’s babies? Von D may have addressed it, but I really think Edgar Cayce came up with it- in his view it’s supposed to house The Hall of Records - the Secret Truth about everything. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/34 "2006-02-08T13:48:58Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > This is the stupidest, lamest variation on the “Christian Identity” ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian\_Identity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Identity)) thesis I have ever encountered. Look up the Wesley Swift and William Potter Gale sermons (somewhere on the Net) for some real doozies. I didn’t know till then that Swift incorporated Cayce-ite and Urantia beliefs into his theology. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/35 "2006-02-08T16:04:12Z")
> [@magpyre](#): > > I think if I learned I was not a native to the planet, it would make me feel decidedly odd about it, plus it would explain why we keep on screwing it up environmentally, as we are not supposed to be here! But you would be native to the planet…just not all of your ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/36 "2006-02-08T16:15:31Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > No, about the: > > If we just let reason take a walk for a second and consider the preposition… what point is there in writing a note intended to give a message to all mankind and then hiding it under an alleged secret chamber under the Sphinx? I mean, if I want to leave a note for one of my coworkers I leave it in plain view, I don´t stuff it into the hollowed leg of one of the tables stashed away on the basement. > Gee, I guess He has taken the “He works in misterious ways” way too seriously… Well, If one would do such a thing, it would no doubt be because the sphinx is more likely to be there 1000 years or more later, as things left in plain sight tend to get lost, stolen or just destroyed by weathering. Leaving a note in the table leg might be discovered centuries later if the table survives but leaving the note on the table has the risk of the note getting crushed, crumbled, destoryed by an orange juice spill, swept under the vending machine by a gust of wind, or thrown in the trash(accidently or otherwise). ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/37 "2006-02-08T18:08:56Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Well, If one would do such a thing, it would no doubt be because the sphinx is more likely to be there 1000 years or more later, as things left in plain sight tend to get lost, stolen or just destroyed by weathering. > > Leaving a note in the table leg might be discovered centuries later if the table survives but leaving the note on the table has the risk of the note getting crushed, crumbled, destoryed by an orange juice spill, swept under the vending machine by a gust of wind, or thrown in the trash(accidently or otherwise). The point I was adressing was the visibility not the longevity of the message; If (a) god wanted he could write it arranging the stars in the sky, down on our own skin, wispered on the sound of sea shells or he would just may have phoned everyone, what´s the point of omnipotency if you restrain yourself to “natural” events? ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/38 "2006-02-08T20:50:46Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > (By the way, what exactly are “the white races” and “the black races”? Into which of those categories would you put, say, Lebanese, or Italians, or Afghanis, or Moroccans?) Into whatever category was politically convenient to me at the moment. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/39 "2006-02-08T20:51:57Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > The point I was adressing was the visibility not the longevity of the message; If (a) god wanted he could write it arranging the stars in the sky, down on our own skin, wispered on the sound of sea shells or he would just may have phoned everyone, what´s the point of omnipotency if you restrain yourself to “natural” events? Good point. I was thinking if Aliens had left a message under the sphinx when I wrote the message. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471/40 "2006-02-08T20:52:11Z")
> [@magpyre](#): > > There was irrefutable proof that the white races were seeded here by an alien entity and the black races were the actual indiginous population? > > dont ask where the proof comes from, its just hypothetical!! > > 😃 Arthur C. Clarke, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-happen-if-aliens-seeded-some-humans-not-others-edited-title/343471.md?page=3)