RE: When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 8, 2012 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2012 at 5:29 pm by Brian37.)
(June 8, 2012 at 5:13 pm)Chuck Wrote:(June 8, 2012 at 5:06 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: What is the reason for projecting the opposite onto them?
I am not projecting the opposit. I am trying not to project at all. I am trying to start from a clean slate.
(June 8, 2012 at 5:13 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Which is why I find the lack of evidence for them disturbing. That is, it is some reason to suspect that we might be the first sophont species in the Milky Way with a reasonable prospect of spreading beyond our own star system.
I don't. We really have no idea what evidence we should expect from a sophant 5 million years, or 5 billion years, more advanced than we are. For all we know we could have been providing amusment like crickets in a box all along.
I think we ARE lucky as a species to even end up on this island to produce the crap we have in terms of superstition and tribalism. I am not saying we should worship that fact. But I am alive, and as sucky and unpredictable it all is, with the low output of protection the universe and evolution puts out, shit, I am here. That is a fraction of the entire species attempts, and for that matter all life. 99% of all life on this planet has gone extinct.
It is not to say that that is ideal, not in the least. I wouldn't set it up this way if I had absolute power. But life can suck and it can be good, and we die in the end no matter our status or class or political party or religion.
I cant say it's all been good, life never will be all good or all bad. I can say that when observing science and nature, both in the benefit it produces and the destruction it produces, it humbles you like looking at Sagan's comments of the Earth pictured through Saturn's rings.
