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RE: Is Humanity Ready for First Contact?
September 26, 2016 at 10:25 am
I don't worry too much about "first contact", because while I believe intelligent life does exist elsewhere, I also believe we'll never meet them prior to our own extinction.
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RE: Is Humanity Ready for First Contact?
September 26, 2016 at 6:04 pm
IMO any intelligent life form would be interested in us because despite us being lower forms of life they would be curious for the same reason we are curious of other lower forms of life. Intelligence goes hand in hand with curiosity.
I also think that it may be possible that no other intelligent life forms will ever be aware of us for 2 reasons:
1. Very very very very very very big universe. 2. very very very very very very rare intelligent life.
Too distant and too rare for there to ever be any contact. But if they could contact us they would be interested.
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RE: Is Humanity Ready for First Contact?
September 26, 2016 at 6:08 pm
I'm sure they would be curious about us and probably run experiments on petri-dish earth.
Look what we do to every other "lower" life form.
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RE: Is Humanity Ready for First Contact?
September 27, 2016 at 2:35 am
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2016 at 2:39 am by Edwardo Piet.)
See, I really think this whole notion of the "Those super smart aliens won't wanna contact us until we're more advanced" thing is a fallacy... because if it were the case that intelligent beings didn't want to study beings far below themselves then us humans wouldn't study single celled organisms.
I think the "They won't wanna contact us yet" thing is just a thing that people say. I think it doesn't really have any merit.
I think the real case is they are unable to contact us either permanently or temporarily.... or they are so significantly advanced that they can monitor us from a distance without us knowing and see it as a waste of energy to actually show up.
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RE: Is Humanity Ready for First Contact?
September 27, 2016 at 5:08 am
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2016 at 6:30 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
What does it mean to be a higher form of life? It doesn't mean that you are from a civilisation that is more technologically advanced. We are still the same species that existed 1,000 years ago. We're not a higher form of life compared to our medieval ancestors. We still have the same base instincts, drives and emotions. We're both apes walking around on two legs. Think of an alien, they'll be an animal too evolved in a similar way for a specific environmental niche.
A higher form of life is something more biologically complex with a larger hierarchy, in the same way that a multi-cellular organism is a higher form of life than a single celled organism, and a mammal is an even higher form of life. We already contain lower forms of life within us, like gut bacteria, or mitochondria DNA. Higher forms of life already exist on this planet. They're called corporations.
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RE: Is Humanity Ready for First Contact?
September 27, 2016 at 6:07 am
The really big robot that stands in the background is really a sommelier. His job is to select a wine to serve when they eat us for dinner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iF5sINVns
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