(September 20, 2017 at 8:43 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(September 20, 2017 at 5:08 pm)Jehanne Wrote: I agree with that. But, the Big Ear is now a golf course. If it was an ET beacon and had we been looking continuously since it was discovered in 1977, it may have been the greatest discovery of all time. May have done more for international peace and goodwill than the International Space Station and McDonald's combined!
If you think humans on the whole are susceptible to being inspired towards international peace and goodwill by a discovery that fundamentally alters humans' perception of their place in the universe, then there must be ETs and you must be one yourself.
It's just basic anthropology. If you were in Iran, you would gravitate towards anyone who was an American, or, for that matter, a Westerner. Ditto for Earthlings in the Galaxy. If it could be shown that there were millions of civilizations within the Local Group of galaxies (say, through a unique spectral signature), then, yes, human beings, I believe, would become closer to one another. Impossible to prove or disprove until such happens, of course.
