But the aliens' real mission is to prepare humanity for the next stage of evolution.
At the top of the list of things to do is preparing humanity for what's coming.
But while I can see it as making good stoical sense for the individual, I'm not sure it's sufficiently rousing to prepare humanity, en masse, to cope with what's coming down the steely, preprogrammed track.
Instead of diverting our attention to fear-based mythological power grabs, we should prepare humanity to survive into the foreseeable future.
At some point in 1974, Norman revised the date at which she expected extraterrestrials to land to September 1975, citing ongoing Confederation efforts to prepare humanity for their landing as the reason for the delay.
On the surface, Ambrose thanks the Doctor for not letting the Silurians execute her for killing Alaya, and the Doctor asks her to help prepare humanity for their next encounter with the Silurians.
She saw a federal world government as the culmination of Wells' Open Conspiracy but favorably argued that it would be synarchist because it was guided by the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, intent on preparing humanity for the mystical second coming of Christ, and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
Princeton is one of twenty-eight institutions to receive the Next Generation Ph.D. Grant, a nationwide initiative of the NEH to transform the culture of graduate education and better prepare humanities graduate students for today's changing academy.
Last year, six of them wrote "The Future of the Humanities Ph.D. at Stanford," a much-discussed white paper promoting the redesign of curriculums to prepare humanities Ph.D.'s for "a diverse array of meaningful, socially productive and personally rewarding careers within and outside the academy," as well as reducing time to degree, which often takes close to a decade.
This easy access to scientific and data expertise is another way to better prepare humanities students and make them more marketable.
