RE: Reaction to extra-terrestial life.
August 18, 2014 at 12:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2014 at 12:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 18, 2014 at 11:54 am)ShaMan Wrote: True to form, in our ignorance, we Humans would try to kill it.Cmon, could they really blame us for trying? Maybe, once that's out of the way (assuming that we both survived the attempt) we could get on to more productive interactions. It's not necessarily ignorance that leads us to do that, btw. It's been an -exceedingly- successful survival strategy thusfar. As a creature whose existence largely depends upon knowing, the "unknown" does present a credible and compelling threat.
Hell, for all we know, this behavior is precisely why some alien species might come a-knocking. Maybe they've got a "job" they need done, they just want to know if we'd be interested...lol.
(I know...I know...different situation....I just couldn't help it, if we found microbes or simple life...anything "non-threatening", we hand out nobels and bottles of champagne. Cmon....we're human beings, not goblins. Why do we imagine that we wouldn;t treat them and their environment like some et serengeti, where the do-gooding humans "protect" the local flaura and fauna?)
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