(May 20, 2011 at 6:03 pm)Chuck Wrote:(May 20, 2011 at 5:52 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: More seriously... they need to stop (All of them) trying to find extraterrestrial life. And especially need to stop attempting to contact said life. They are very likely *not* friendly if they as a race have managed to survive for so long.
Given the likelihood of their being much more advanced than we are, it seems unlikely that we can find them if they did not already know of us. If they already know of us, then clearly we are not significant enough to bestir their unfriendness into decisive action, or else we wouldn't live long enough to wonder whether we should try and find them. Since we are still here, I would say they could not be bothered to notice when we find them.
Unknown likelihood + unknown likelihood = oh let's be reckless explorers?
A planet with previously unknown life on it is as useful to an advanced race as the Americas to those who 'discovered the new world'. It is quite worth the taking, even if it is of little worth strategically. It remains that reckless behavior in regards to exploration and especially expansion will end us.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
