Turanil
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According to a documentary I did see, life on Earth is much, much older than what was believed before.
Well, to begin with, it is well known that life on Earth began to evolve approximately 500 millions of years ago. And scientists were wondering why it had waited for a so long time before starting...
But then, scientists discovered that some primitive, and extremely resistant micro-organism began to exist 3 billions of years ago (3000 millions rather than 500). However, at that epoch, Earth didn't have... a moon!! The moon came to Earth approximately 500 millions of years ago, when a passing small planet crashed into the Earth. This was an utterly blast of fire horror, and everything on earth's surface was melted down, and boiled at 4000 degree celsius, and took 1 million of years to cool down.
Everything was destroyed except some of these resistant micro-organisms that were kept intact deep into the crust, in some places filled with water, that survived the crash. So, when Earth had cooled down (about 500 millions years ago), they immediately began to "evolve" and much later, here **we** are.
From that point on, everything is speculation on my part, and the subject of this thread...
So what happened before? Think that the micro-organisms had already had 2500 millions of years to evolve into something, compared to a mere 500 millions were **we** are concerned. Can you imagine our Earth with a much different environment, but a life that could well have evolved at our own human level of complexity, and maybe even much further??
They had the time for that!!
As a gamer, it all reminds me of Lovecraft and his stories of incredibly ancient races, absolutely alien and unfathomable, that populated the Earth in a past so remote, that to think about it would make you mad (roll a sanity check at DC 17 please).
Well, if only he could have known...
Well, to begin with, it is well known that life on Earth began to evolve approximately 500 millions of years ago. And scientists were wondering why it had waited for a so long time before starting...
But then, scientists discovered that some primitive, and extremely resistant micro-organism began to exist 3 billions of years ago (3000 millions rather than 500). However, at that epoch, Earth didn't have... a moon!! The moon came to Earth approximately 500 millions of years ago, when a passing small planet crashed into the Earth. This was an utterly blast of fire horror, and everything on earth's surface was melted down, and boiled at 4000 degree celsius, and took 1 million of years to cool down.
Everything was destroyed except some of these resistant micro-organisms that were kept intact deep into the crust, in some places filled with water, that survived the crash. So, when Earth had cooled down (about 500 millions years ago), they immediately began to "evolve" and much later, here **we** are.
From that point on, everything is speculation on my part, and the subject of this thread...
So what happened before? Think that the micro-organisms had already had 2500 millions of years to evolve into something, compared to a mere 500 millions were **we** are concerned. Can you imagine our Earth with a much different environment, but a life that could well have evolved at our own human level of complexity, and maybe even much further??
They had the time for that!!As a gamer, it all reminds me of Lovecraft and his stories of incredibly ancient races, absolutely alien and unfathomable, that populated the Earth in a past so remote, that to think about it would make you mad (roll a sanity check at DC 17 please).
Well, if only he could have known...
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