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“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
As a scientist by education, I'm skeptical aliens could or would be here, as in Earth, for a variety reasons that make it far-fetched at best, flying saucer low-IQ BS at worst.
I am dumbfounded as to why high IQ types such as Hawking, or yourself for that matter, would suppose hostile intent from a civilization capable of contacting Earth physically. I mean... if the means of transport was a vessel of some kind, it would have to be self sustaining for the duration of the journey! It would in essence be a micro-planet. What resource on Earth would be so uniquely valuable that they could not synthesize it themselves? If the means of transport is something entirely unfathomable, then it would be even less likely that there is any resource on earth that could not be acquired with far less effort on their part.
Earth is doomed if its higher order thinkers cannot escape the primitive limbic programing of the human brainstem. The fear of alien invasion is actually the fear that the aliens will be appalled at the human treatment of the other sentient lifeforms that share the planet. That and the appalling disrespect that humanity has paid to the very Earth that houses our species. Their reaction would be proportionate to the magnitude of our transgression against Mother Gaia and her inhabitants, humanity included. Yah, I'd fear that.
Luckily, I ride a bicycle everywhere and/or use Mass Transit, and I recycle. I have nothing to fear from the Alien Visitors. They may make me an Ambassador . While I am enjoying the celebrity and the attention from extraterrestrial sex tourists, the F350 owners that do their own oil changes in their backyard, and do not recycle the used motor oil, will not be treated quite so benevolently. Oh well, its not like I haven't spent several years here on City Data urging the Denyers and other Luddites to wake up and smell the coffee.
With the modernday advantage of practically everyone having a recording device on them, or hd capable cameras even on cell phones, where has all the UFO evidence gone?
I am dumbfounded as to why high IQ types such as Hawking, or yourself for that matter, would suppose hostile intent from a civilization capable of contacting Earth physically. I mean... if the means of transport was a vessel of some kind, it would have to be self sustaining for the duration of the journey! It would in essence be a micro-planet. What resource on Earth would be so uniquely valuable that they could not synthesize it themselves?
What makes you think making contact with us is their intent and that our resources aren't the primary purpose of coming here? Our terrestrial history shows us that whenever a superior invasive species competes with an existing species for resources, the existing species loses and is often exterminated.
They already did. Back in the Clinton administration. They found evidence of life on Mars. This seems to be more significant, the chatter is they have had communications with aliens.
When was this? Do you have a (mainstream) article on it? That would've been huge and I don't remember it.
I feel like Alien intervention is how the human race has advanced so rapidly...
No, we haven't advanced that much at all, especially in the area of space travel -- an area that would be greatly helped by an alien race capable of making the light year distances to reach us. The Russians put the first rover on Mars in 1971. Today, 45 years later, we still haven't been able to do anything beyond putting rovers on Mars.
As for the existence of aliens, I believe bacterial life is common. Surface life like animals and plants are rare. Technological life like humans is very rare, if not unique. The process of going from a bacteria to complex life and eventually intelligent life requires a long time and stability, which on earth would not have been possible if it weren't for the moon and Jupiter.
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. While I am enjoying the celebrity and the attention from extraterrestrial sex tourists, the F350 owners that do their own oil changes in their backyard, and do not recycle the used motor oil, will not be treated quite so benevolently. Oh well, its not like I haven't spent several years here on City Data urging the Denyers and other Luddites to wake up and smell the coffee.
