RE: When do you think we will have extraterrestrials visit us? visit us
June 8, 2012 at 6:02 pm
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2012 at 6:06 pm by Brian37.)
(June 8, 2012 at 5:33 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(June 8, 2012 at 5:13 pm)Chuck Wrote: I am not projecting the opposit. I am trying not to project at all. I am trying to start from a clean slate.
The person I was responding to claimed that aliens that were 1% smarter than us would not care more for us than we care about Ebola. My statement concluded with 'I don't think it's so easy to predict alien attitudes.' I think you may have mistaken my position.
(June 8, 2012 at 5:13 pm)Chuck Wrote: 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.
The aliens you propose would be indistinguishable from gods and all of the problems that apply to gods apply to them. I have only the one sophont species to judge by, but I think it's highly likely that a species with the technology and will to expand beyond their star system will exploit and transform everything in their way. If they valued non-intererence and invisibility, they could have stayed home.
Life exits. There is no dispute about that. Mental masturbation about "what could be" has produced the Redskins since their last Super Bowl with NOTHING!
If if's and butts were candy and nuts the Redskins wouldn't SUCK SO BAD.
When anyone postulates something, I might poo poo it from the onset, as I have and do. But for all others I say, "Patient office and Nobel Prize" are the quickest way to make me eat crow. "I'll believe it when I see it"
As an aside LOVE TYSON! FYI he had a cameo on Big Bang Theory.
