Perhaps these dead Neanderthals served as a warning to the other Neanderthals. "Don't eat grasses and vegetables, man; that stuff will kill you! Just eat meat!" And the rest is history.
Of course, we learned nothing from the Neanderthals. We have these big brains and we're smarter than everybody. Such is the claim, but just repeat that to yourself three times. Take any issue from the cafeteria of human folly, and then repeat that mantra to yourself three times: we have big brains, we have big brains, we have big brains! Try not to laugh; it does back up my theory of alien avoidance.
Any extra terrestrial life worth its salt, with any given amount of intelligence, would be far too wise to involve itself with creatures that think so much of themselves with such a poor track record to base it upon - creatures that through higher mathematics can unlock the very secrets of the universe but still stick gum under tables. A creature with the ability to make deserts bloom, while at the same time turning rain forests into deserts.
We defeat ourselves with every turn of the card. It was once prognosticated that the crossbow was such a terrible weapon that it would either eliminate war or eliminate mankind. The folly of such thinking is, it is not the weapon that is dangerous, but mankind himself. Man with his big brain and organizational abilities creates huge armies, and weapons that can fly or sail underneath the waves for months at a time. Yet in Chicago, they can't organize a baseball team on the North side of town that can win a championship in over a century.
That alone might be enough to scare off any alien contact. Our scientists once believed that water was rare in the cosmos. Now we know that it is common in the universe. We've traveled to the moon and sent probes to Mars and discovered that they are made up of the same basic elements found on Earth. What are the planets on the other side of the cosmos made of? The same stuff.
We have found for all of our research that we are pretty common, made from basic carbon atoms; it follows as likely to have occurred elsewhere in the universe.
Hopefully, we will never meet them, another bumbling stumbling race of beings who think they are smarter than everyone else because they can beat Neanderthals at Uno, five games out of six. A higher race of monkeys, violent and dangerous, easy to anger and easily misled. I wonder if the aliens didn't send out a rescue mission to save the Neanderthals from us? Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away the Neanderthals live safe and secure, freed from the homo Sapien menace.
Maybe, the Neanderthals' leadership was made up of Republicans and blue dog Democrats that decided to outsource hunting and gathering to the Homo Sapiens?The society became impoverished when their jobs disappeared, taken by those smaller guys that didn't eat so much.
Then the Neanderthal stock market collapsed, and the Neanderthals leadership proposed a bail out.
My personal theory is that the fundamentalist wing of the Neanderthal's Republican party passed an amendment declaring the Bible as God's holy word. Then, when it became clear that the Bible doesn't believe in Neanderthals, they did what was right and faded away so as not to contradict the Bible. They taught their children to practice abstinence education until they were all gone.
The aliens perhaps admire us from afar, like a hornet's nest. They observe with consternation a planet whose beings practice an economic system which is based solely on greed. They scratch their little alien heads at the disdain that is heaped on a system which shares all goods in common. They see our devout, loving religious beliefs and the graveyards they have filled. When the question of contact is broached among the aliens, they recoil. Contact with them! No way, man! Not those guys; I'd rather poke a mastodon in the nut sack with a sharp stick!
Science will always find new horizons. Did the Neanderthals ever invent the toothbrush? Will the Cubs ever win the World Series? Is gum stuck under tables an alien marker, a precursor of alien conquest? Does a cat have a climbing gear? Is the Pope Catholic? Do scientists have too much time on their hands?
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