Are we actually a prison planet?

Seen this idea thrown around from time to time so I thought I would examine it myself.

When most people picture earth as a prison planet they picture us humans as the prisoners, however i posit that it may actually be another very intelligent species that is limited by its size - Ants.

Sounds crazy i know, and probably is, but humour me. Ants supposedly appeared during the Jurassic Period some 150m years ago and have since outlasted all but 2 or 3 other species, this is in large part due to their intelligence/resilience plus their super strength for their size.

We can see that ants exhibit many of the characteristics and behaviours that we associate with intelligence and civilization. In fact, if ants did not exist on Earth but we encountered them on, for example, Mars, I am sure that we would wonder if we had encountered an intelligent alien race that builds cities, farms, raises animals, and organizes itself into a complex society complete with social ranks such as nobles, soldiers, workers and slaves. I am sure that we would conclude that these aliens were in fact intelligent.

Now given the age of the universe is it too much of a stretch of the imagination that ants perhaps evolved in another part of the galaxy where they were much larger in size and had the ability to mine materials and generate technology? We know that ant colonies also wage war against one another (and capture slaves!) so they do have an ingrained aggressive tendency. Maybe they were a massive threat to the galaxy and were shrunk down and dumped on a rock where they could still live but didn't have the size capabilities anymore to mine metals and over millions of years they forgot their past and became a natural part of earths ecosystem.

TLDR: Ants are hyperintelligent species who can farm algae and other animals for their own benefit, build ventilation and sewerage systems in their cities, communicate/cooperate with one another and build advanced infrastructure like bridges to cross ravines or water. Ants were bigger somewhere else in the galaxy millions of years ago and needed to be passified by getting shrunk down and placed on earth where they couldn't cause any more trouble.

Submitted July 05, 2021 at 01:00AM by DisclosureJune https://ift.tt/36h7pUh