Ancient Aliens and Gold....

[neutral_site]

It IS a bit disconcerting if you follow the proposal that humans are little more than genetically re-purposed gorillas, whose entire existence is oriented to dig for gold.

Still, you could picture it: the AA's engineer us, set us to work, and come back periodically to collect the gold we dig up. Some of the AA's are "nice", some aren't so nice, variations just as in humans.

When they analyze us and discover traits they don't like, they set off 'plagues' to destroy those of us having the mutations they deem dangerous, just as we curb undesirable traits in animals or crops.

Following such logic, what we do as a "society" is of little more interest to them than, say, an ant hill or bee-hive is to us.

Not saying that is the way it is, but, you just never know.

[Moon]

I just find it hard to believe they have a technology to come here from tens of thousands of light years away to find gold. Humans have always loved gold, but it is not necessarily so for the extraterrestrials.

Besides, they would have the technology to easily get it from the seas, which actually has a tremendous amount of gold in the water.

[neutral_site]

I just find it hard to believe they have a technology to come here from tens of thousands of light years away to find gold. Humans have always loved gold, but it is not necessarily so for the extraterrestrials.

Besides, they would have the technology to easily get it from the seas, which actually has a tremendous amount of gold in the water.

Perhaps, though, the technology for travel is far easier than the technology to either create of extract gold.
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I tend to agree with you in principle, but can't really rule anything out.

[Gravity&Space]

I Believe it was not Gold that was needed but mass. Gold has the ability to travel unaffected and its mass is superior to most.

I assume the ET's needed mass and had many ships.

We (us as a planet / people) would then have been considered a long shot for a long-term solution. There are plenty of other planets to harvest from.

I assume that we (us as a planet / people) nor gold is the grand solution or the middle to the existence of anything.

By the way if I assume it only makes an ass out of me. That is a great one. Thanks because I once again can assume.

I assume I will not make an ass out of me.

[Moon]

We have the technology to extract gold from the sea, but it is cheaper to use mines. I would not think an advanced race of beings would be economy based. I would assume they are past materialism.

Then again I shouldn't assume as I make an ass out of me, not you.

[Dr. Z]

I just find it hard to believe they have a technology to come here from tens of thousands of light years away to find gold. Humans have always loved gold, but it is not necessarily so for the extraterrestrials.

Besides, they would have the technology to easily get it from the seas, which actually has a tremendous amount of gold in the water.

Perhaps, though, the technology for travel is far easier than the technology to either create of extract gold.
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I tend to agree with you in principle, but can't really rule anything out.

I do not buy that ancient aliens wanted gold. Surely they had machinery 1000 times superior to manual labor via human hands and mining tools of yesteryear.

Gold has some usual properties. Perhaps the ancient aliens wanted us to have gold.

[The_Atomic_Punku]

We have the technology to extract gold from the sea, but it is cheaper to use mines. I would not think an advanced race of beings would be economy based. I would assume they are past materialism.

Then again I shouldn't assume as I make an ass out of me, not you.

Hi Moon: I feel it is unlikely that if the aliens wanted gold it was for its aesthetics, monetary value or mass. In my opinion it is more likely it would be used in nano-tech. If gold nano-tech was necessary to advance or even save their species, it seems likely when their own supply of gold was exhausted they would boldy go where no alien had gone before in search of more gold.

Molecules associate with the nanoparticle surface of gold and the surface bound molecules establish a double layer of charge that prevents nanoparticle aggregation(unwanted particles sticking to the gold). High salt environments collapse the charge and cause nanoparticle aggregation, which may have been undesirable.

I am unsympathetic to the theory mankind was placed on the planet to mine gold for aliens. If they had been, it seems likely to me that the aliens would have left overseers to enslave us. However I do believe it is possible aliens may have bribed existing leaders with the promise of of a tomb that would endure for eternity(as an example) to offer incentive to rally the peons to mine on their behalf. That would explain a lot.

[Regulus]

Gold could have been needed for countless reasons. If they come to earth for gold then it may have been any of these fundamentals, repair, energy, for our star(sun) for whatever reason, or to study earth itself. If they needed gold so bad it can be found within supernovas, however they may have to wait for it to explode then they would have to gather it all up, and throughout an area larger than our solar system. Or maybe they can go within the dying star to extract it.. It may be easier to mine from a planet than a supernova.
Reactions in a supernova have neutron-rich nuclei, I don't know what happens when nuclear reactions in supernova explosions move beyond the table of isotopes. Many exotic atoms are formed that do not exist on Earth and which quickly transform into stable elements. There could be other elements they use we have never seen. Since we have no data on these exotic nuclei, the astrophysicists have to make many assumptions about their properties so with the information we have today I wonder if The Ancient Extraterrestrials needed heavier elements as well, like uranium. But why here? They must have been just passing through collecting elements they need along the way sense they are so abundant throughout the universe. We just happen to be closer. I'm trying to figure this one out, so if elements heavier than iron cannot form in stellar nucleosynthesis such as our sun, (because more energy is required to fuse heavier elements together to create the really heavy elements than is released in that kind of fusion) that would make more sense as to why they came to earth to mine. But not just for that reason alone, it was Also their interest in human activity as well, not just to mine the solar system and go. For some reason they wanted to help push us along our species. I’m sure they know that Iron is what kills a star so maybe they were here to monitor our sun as well knowing it is our life support.