Gold Rover
Jr. Member
Since I'm a neophyte to the prospecting life, I find that I can contribute little to the forum that is worthwhile or noteworthy. However, I came across this bit of history and "science" information that may help explain our visceral reaction to seeking and finding gold. Gold mining is in our DNA.
You see, according to some ancient Sumerian texts, 430,000 and some odd years ago aliens, the Anunnaki, landed in the Persian Gulf in order to loot Earth's gold. They needed it for some such stuff that was important to them. They proceeded to mine away at our gold resources for a couple of hundred thousand years until the poor alien schmucks who were charged with mining it said "Enough!! Gold mining is too hard. We quit." and went on perhaps the first labor strike on the planet.
Of course, the evil alien overlords (probably management in the first evil corporation on the planet) said "Well fix that." and instructed their medically adept minions to produce a hybrid "worker bee" of sorts. They fiddled about with splicing the genes from different animals and Homo Erectus, but with disappointing results, so they winged it and spliced up the caveman's genes to their own. Presto, Homo Sapiens were created and they grabbed their picks and shovels and went to work.
The mining was evidently pretty good, because they came to the conclusion that their labor force really needed to be increased. But the hybridized worker bees that were our ancestors were sterile, and since the management couldn't just send someone to the town saloons to look for more miners, they had to do some more fiddling to allow our species to procreate.
While at first that may appeared to have been a grand idea, it ended up the way many things do that involve a lot of people, FUBAR. Let's just say the story from there involves steamy inter-species sex, exodus, and floods and the Anunakki bugging out to leave us to our own devices.
So there you have it, a highly scientific reason for our "gold fever". Prospecting for gold is what we were made for.
You see, according to some ancient Sumerian texts, 430,000 and some odd years ago aliens, the Anunnaki, landed in the Persian Gulf in order to loot Earth's gold. They needed it for some such stuff that was important to them. They proceeded to mine away at our gold resources for a couple of hundred thousand years until the poor alien schmucks who were charged with mining it said "Enough!! Gold mining is too hard. We quit." and went on perhaps the first labor strike on the planet.
Of course, the evil alien overlords (probably management in the first evil corporation on the planet) said "Well fix that." and instructed their medically adept minions to produce a hybrid "worker bee" of sorts. They fiddled about with splicing the genes from different animals and Homo Erectus, but with disappointing results, so they winged it and spliced up the caveman's genes to their own. Presto, Homo Sapiens were created and they grabbed their picks and shovels and went to work.
The mining was evidently pretty good, because they came to the conclusion that their labor force really needed to be increased. But the hybridized worker bees that were our ancestors were sterile, and since the management couldn't just send someone to the town saloons to look for more miners, they had to do some more fiddling to allow our species to procreate.
While at first that may appeared to have been a grand idea, it ended up the way many things do that involve a lot of people, FUBAR. Let's just say the story from there involves steamy inter-species sex, exodus, and floods and the Anunakki bugging out to leave us to our own devices.
So there you have it, a highly scientific reason for our "gold fever". Prospecting for gold is what we were made for.
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need and greed make ya do the deed and forsake all others-John
This has been on the net since 2011 and has yet to be disproved!
