Exploring the galaxy.

Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our solar system, located 4.37 light-years away in the Centaurus constellation. It is a triple-star system composed of two Sun-like stars (Alpha Centauri A and B) and a red dwarf (Proxima Centauri). Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun and hosts confirmed planets, making the system a primary target for finding extraterrestrial life and future interstellar exploration.

Proxima Centauri: Hosts at least two, possibly three, planets, including Proxima Centauri b, an Earth-sized planet within its habitable zone. (Goldilocks zone - not too hot, not too cold, just right.)

Alpha Centauri A & B: While they are prime targets for finding habitable worlds due to their sun-like nature, no planets have been definitively confirmed around them yet, despite ongoing searches.

Habitability Challenges: Although Proxima b is in the habitable zone, it likely faces harsh conditions, including potential tidal locking and heavy radiation from stellar flares.

Although us humans have only traveled and walked on the moon, and driven a robotic rover on Mars, we are getting more advanced every year, and by 2028 we will have a permanent presence on the moon, and then we have set our eyes on inhabiting Mars permanently as well. But we know that both moon and planet does not have multi cell life forms. There might be micro bacterial life. But we want to find more, if not intelligent life, at least primate, pre civilized hominid life. So the search goes on. And we know that there is none of that kind of life in our solar system, but what about in other solar systems? Our telescopes have not detected anything yet, but we have discovered a large number of planets that orbit around stars in solar systems in our galaxy, the Milky Way. And some of them are located in the Goldilocks Zone of their star.

So all we have to do is go to those stars and explore their system to investigate those planets in the habitable zone for water, oxygen, vegetation and multi cell life. And unlike the “prime directive” on Star Trek, ( where they don’t interfere with life that they find), we want to do what was done to us anciently, as documented in the Bible, and other ancient texts from Mesopotamia, Sumerian, India, Japan and China, and kick start civilization by mingling our DNA with the primates we do find, with their DNA, and teach them math, science, technology, like the wheel, fire, weapons, farming, irrigation, and writing. And make them intelligent human beings like us.

We will start by sending unmanned space craft to the closest star system, Alpha Centuri, which we already know has Goldilocks zone habitable planets that are orbiting suns, and observe close up if those planets have all the elements of life. Then we will send a manned flight, with astronauts who can land on the planets and make contact, hopefully, with primates, or even intelligent hominids, and do medical testing on them, and educate them to kick start their civilization to eventually be at our level.

By the time we are ready to send the first unmanned spacecraft, we will have developed an advanced rocket propulsion system with nuclear energy, solar energy, and probably unknown technologies as of this writing, which will make our space craft go further, and faster, and more comfortable than known currently, so that when the manned craft blasts off from our Lunar base, it will be bigger, faster, and ready for a long journey in interstellar deep space. It’s not that far off, it will be in my life time, and yours too. Early European explorers were gone for four or five years on their journeys of exploration, so it’s not unreasonable to plan on a journey that long.

So the day comes that the first manned flight happens, and after a long 2 year flight comes to an end with the capsule orbiting around one of the rocky planets identified by the unmanned mission as having all the elements needed for life, as well as visual observation of vegetation and liquid water, and the astronauts left the capsule in the shuttle and landed on the surface of the planet. History was made. Every astronaut was armed with the latest defensive weapon, in case they were met by hostile life. They weren’t, in fact the beings were timid, gentle, but very inquisitive, and approached them, touching their clothing, and helmets, and after the helmets were removed by the astronauts, their hair. They spoke a language between them, but was undiscipherable to the astronauts until they turned on their translation computers and worked out what they were saying and could talk back to them. Then it was easy sailing from then on. They were very primitive, hunter gatherers. The weather was temperate and they didn’t wear any clothes. They also did not live in permanent shelters, either in caves, or temporary leaf and branch lean to’s. They ate raw meat and vegation, tubers, fruit and berries. The astronauts had a lot of work to do to teach them some rudimentary life skills, like make and harness fire, and cooking. And cooking utensils, bowls, pots, pottery, knives. And the wheel. But they learned quick, and talked excitedly amongst themselves, comparing what they accomplished in the class.

‘The astronauts led the whole tribe ( 14 of them)into the shuttle and blasted off to the orbiting capsule, where they gave a tour of the inside, including showing them a view of their planet, then ended up placing them on beds for medical testing, bloodwork, catscans and, MRI’s. And finally, artificial insemination on the females with human sperm from the sperm bank. Then they were shuttled back to the planet. The tribe was subdued by this time from what they had experienced, and when the astronauts bade them goodbye and entered the shuttle to return to their space craft the tribe bowed and pleaded for them to stay. But they had to leave, promising to one day return. Then they blasted off.

Then next stop on their agenda was another continent on the other side of the planet that they had observed weeks earlier that looked promising. Once the shuttle touched down, they started exploring the jungle and surrounding savanna, finding tracks of hominids. When contact was eventually made, it was discovered that the hominids were primates, looking similar to chimpanzees back on Earth. They were carrying sticks, clubs and spears, very primitive. They could not talk, only make sounds. The astronauts captured 4 females and transported them to the orbiting space capsule, where extensive medical tests were carried out, along with artificial insemination, in an attempt to speed up their evolution into an intelligent hominid being. A much longer process than what they had done earlier. One of the first things they were taught was making fire, or at the very least keeping coals alive so they had fire. Cooking, heating water. Introducing them to using shelters to live in, tree branches, leaves, mud and grass brick making. Small steps. The astronauts stayed around long enough to see the pregnancy grow, then they left for the return trip to Earth.

For the next one hundred years, unmanned flights were sent back to monitor the results of that first contact. Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics allowed us to land on the surface of the planet and make contact with the beings there, talk to them, see their advancement, and teach them new skills. For the primates the AI robots performed artificial semination all the females, to help them evolve the species. They recorded the evolution of the species from the first contact and imsemination, and there was some change. They still could not talk, but they were using fire, and building mud huts. Rudimentary, but better than just living under trees or in caves. Stable communities were developing. The robots documented all advancements, including paintings on walls of the first astronauts, and the shuttle. The primate hybrid beings treated the robots like gods. At the hominid settlement, the robots documented their advancements as well. Using translators, they were able to communicate with them and the beings indicated their pleasure at the return of the gods to them. Their civilization had advanced quite a lot, and the people looked healthy and content. Large plots of land were under cultivation, and water canals were being used to guide fresh water to the crops being grown. They were wearing clothes.also noted were many clay tablets with writing on them. The robots documented the tablets, and were able to translate them. It talked about the gods coming from the stars to teach them, and would return one day. The beings had built a temple to worship them.

New advanced mathematics was taught to them, and building techniques, road construction, chariot manufacturing, iron smelting. It was decided that another manned mission would be sent, to teach them human behavior and our history. And slowly guide them towards space travel and communication, computing, and religion. With the success of this planetary mission, we were ready to explore further. And build a federation of planets. The future is here. We are ready, hold on to your horses.

Go boldly where no man has gone before. So now we know the gods we worshipped on Earth weren’t gods at all, they were aliens from a close planet and just astronauts on a mission to advance civilization. And we were the ancient primates that they hybridized and educated. Now we are the gods.