Higher Beings Millions of sunrises ago, before the invention of the telephone, before the fall of the Roman Empire, long before the first civilization emerged, humans were able to survive because they had the instinct to hunt, like all other animals that could eat meat. Later on, humans would develop tools such as the lever and the wheel that would make their lives easier. The new technology would then be taught to their offspring. This …showed first 75 words of 1071 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1071 total…memory and the ability to hunt. Since the discovery of the first crystal by Moon-Watcher to the time when TMA-1 was found, humans had been able to survive on their own. In that time, in Clarke’s book, they were able to colonize the moon and to hibernate people in space. Humans have done very well for themselves in the last couple million years. With luck, they will continue to do so for eons more.