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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

If you haven't read the later books in the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, at one point it's revealed that an ancient spacefaring society gathered up the most useless people they had (I think it was ad copy writers, telephone sanitizers, and hair stylists), shoved them in long haul spacecraft designed to crash land and destroy themselves entirely while safely delivering the passengers, disabled all internal controls, and pointed the craft at ancient earth.

They unfortunately outbred the native neanderthals. This also completely broke the earth's original purpose of being a giant biocomputer.