If I were an alien or demon bent on giving folks on some distant planet crap, I wouldn't go there at all. I'd send 20 A-I's to 20 different planets, so I didn't have to worry about life support, and I'd be messing with all 20 !
The downside with that is that by being present there are resources that could be more easily obtained... as hard as it is to put oneself into an alien mindset with a human mind.
I had a discussion recently where one was upset because I was saying gods and God (gods being non-descript that could be alien, angels, or something else that the ancients did not know as opposed to God as the creator)
The best we could do is speculate as to what was actually going on at those points in history.
If I were an alien or demon bent on giving folks on some distant planet crap, I wouldn't go there at all. I'd send 20 A-I's to 20 different planets, so I didn't have to worry about life support, and I'd be messing with all 20 !
The downside with that is that by being present there are resources that could be more easily obtained... as hard as it is to put oneself into an alien mindset with a human mind.
I think it was tried both ways. I think the gods that liked their offerings burnt and an occasional young virgin were actual biologicals.
I had a discussion recently where one was upset because I was saying gods and God (gods being non-descript that could be alien, angels, or something else that the ancients did not know as opposed to God as the creator)
The best we could do is speculate as to what was actually going on at those points in history.