Ancient Aliens: They Came from the Sea, or maybe from Hollywood
They Came from the Sea is where Ancient Aliens explores and extrapolates every sci-fi movie plot about the depths of the ocean.
They Came from the Sea may as well be Ancient Aliens dipping into a classic sci-fi vault. Or at the very least a sequel to The Abyss (no discussion about nuking alien fish). Ultimately, many things in the ocean look weird, behave oddly, and live in great depths.
Therefore, Ancient Aliens proposes some of those creatures must be aliens. Furthermore, life may have been created by a force beyond Earth, like an alien hurling spore into space.
Release the Kraken!
Sailors have talked about sea creatures for ages. And since drunken, rickets-stricken sailors are such sources of wisdom, Ancient Aliens runs with it. For supporting evidence there is a dark, murky, underwater video filmed by the same people who worked on The Battle of Winterfell.
In the waterlogged Zapruder video, there is a glimpse of something, much like there is a glimpse of a creature in all Bigfoot videos. The narrator throws out the word mermaid. A commentator says Kraken. If it’s good enough for Liam Neeson, it’s good enough for me.
The ocean is unknown
Exploration of the ocean floor is at roughly 10%. According to the folks at Ancient Aliens, we know more about the face of Mars than the deepest crevices of the oceans. Decades ago it was thought no animals could live past a certain depth. Of course, people used to think the Sun went around the Earth. Nonetheless, the discovery of heat vents at the ocean’s floor surprised marine biologists because a different form of photosynthesis (no light) forms bacteria and helps create life.
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For instance, there was life-like the immortal jellyfish that can revert to a nubile stage and start its life over and over again whenever the environment gets harsh. Someone really missed out on calling it the Benjamin Button jellyfish.
So what if the immortal jellyfish came from space? According to one interviewed scientist, this theory of panspermia, and not a primordial soup, is how the chemical precursors of life resulted in all the creatures on Earth. This can be done by comets and such – another scientist showed Giorgio a meteorite with liquid water and amino acids – or it could just be the Engineers from Prometheus.
To support this “life on Earth from space”-theory, there is a brief note about the fact that astronauts on the International Space Station discovered plankton. Mr. Krabs can’t be happy.
The octopus theory
According to some scientists, the octopus has alien origins. Octopuses (octopi?) can manipulate shape, color, and camouflage itself. In some ways they can edit their own genetic code, their double helix of DNA, yada yada, and can make new proteins via RNA editing. They can also use tools, which is not exclusive to octopuses because I’ve seen a chimp use a frog like a Flesh Light. The narrator mentions octopuses have three hearts and nine brains to sway the unconvinced, but the hagfish has four hearts and it looks like a purple tube sock.
Then there is the giant squid! It has the largest eyes in the animal kingdom according to Ancient Aliens. Ummm, OK.
Mythology mentions many animal/human combinations, like mermaids, minotaurs, centaurs, and ManBearPig. And don’t forget about the ctenophora, which are called the “aliens of the sea,” That pretty much settles things for Giorgio. It’ s all aliens.
BERMUDA
The final piece of evidence are the blue holes in Bermuda. The underwater caves allow no light, and people said life couldn’t exist there. Like these people have never seen The Descent or Pitch Black. Anyway, a scientist with scuba gear found a wide variety of animals. Four pictures are shown that look like the same shrimp from different angles. Not incredibly convincing.
dark. Next. Ancient Aliens: The Badlands Guardian is convincing alien interaction
Ultimately this is one of the least convincing Ancient Aliens episodes ever. There is some more talk about underwater shapes that may or may not resemble structures. Or rocks. In addition, there are reports of lights from the water to go along with USO (Unidentified Submersible Object). In other words, we’re back to the plot of The Abyss.
Ancient Aliens airs Fridays on History.