Think about it: we are placed on this earth, it’s own isolated Petri dish, isolated from any other living thing so there is no way to cross contaminate us with anything outside our environment.

We are placed in an environment that gives us basic subsistence and we are allowed to evolve. After a few million years, we develop farming and civilization (~8,000 years ago), we grow and develop technologies (the Industrial Revolution ~1760-ish), first flight (1903), and then with enormous effort of resource allocation, organization, and technology we pop out of our Petri dish in 1957 with Sputnik, and later the moon in 1969. However, because our life span is too short, it is impossible for us to travel much beyond that.

So — what if our lifespans were engineered to be artificially short, so we can’t travel beyond our solar system— meaning no escaping the experiment. With shorter life spans, we can be studied generationally like we do with lab rats.

Are we being studied to see how highly advanced AI plays out? (Humanity as the AI?) We are given just enough ethical/religious guidance and yet the free will to create technology that could kill us — nukes, global warming, etc. Are we being studied to see if we will have the collective intelligence to save ourselves or burn ourselves out due to greed and ignorance?

Are things like ethics and religion variables in the experiment? What happens when we are given small insights? For instance, we know we are poisoning our atmosphere due to fossil fuel use, but we still continue even though we know the outcome.

Now we are at the evolutionary step of creating our own AI? At what point does the experiment end?

Are our alleged UFO friends, then, monitoring the experiment?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5634291&forum_id=2:#48338035)