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Do we dare let aliens know we’re here?
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| 8/17/10
| Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 08/18/2010 11:43:50 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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The average star is more than six billion years old. The Sun is 4.5 billion years old. So the average advanced civilization could be a couple of billion years more advanced than we are. Is it possible they could harm us across interstellar distances? Absolutely! It is IMPOSSIBLE for us to conceive of their motivations or capabilities. Hawking is right. Advanced aliens might view us the same way we view cockroaches and zap us from a distance. We have no way of knowing. So... Shhh!
To: LibWhacker
Or maybe they don’t contact us because they just don’t care?
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:45:13 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: Dallas59
To: LibWhacker
Or maybe we’re already in the galactic petrie dish under their observation.......
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:47:43 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: Dallas59
Don’t worry. The really big rocks are on the way...
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:48:14 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: LibWhacker
*facepalm*
Not this sh!t again...
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:49:12 AM PDT
by
TexasPatriot1
(Legalize the Constitution)
To: LibWhacker
We may in fact prefer aliens to our current masters.
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:49:35 AM PDT
by
ThirdMate
To: LibWhacker
Who’s to say aliens are ‘advanced’????? What if they’re not?
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:50:26 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
To: LibWhacker
They are already here....check the hundreds and hundreds of sighting reports and pictures on MUFON web site. They do not want to make any mass contact however for whatever reason...
To: LibWhacker
We are probably already quarantined by the Galactic Order like a plague bug.
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:52:07 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: Dallas59
Or maybe they don't want to be directly involved with such a primitive species. They've been exploiting the resources of our solar system for a very long time. Why bring spoiled brats into the family of intelligent beings when we have yet to demonstrate that we are 'intelligent beings' in the sense the alien races regard that characteristic?
Imagine how fast the disease of our species arrogance would spread to the universe, if we had the capability to step in and out of volumetric time, to traverse the expanses almost instantaneously! We would be the disease all other races had to fight against which would corrode their civilizations into squabbling hordes. Better to keep us quarantined for now.
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:53:02 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Dem voters, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when deceived.)
To: LibWhacker
It might be a good idea to determine whether such life exists before worrying about whether we should contact it. It is kind of like a baby worrying about toothaches before developing teeth.
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:53:17 AM PDT
by
rob777
To: AU72
To: LibWhacker
I have always been amazed that supposedly smart people just assume that a more advanced civilization would be benign. That has rarely been the case on earth.
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:53:35 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: roaddog727
We have been and we are. Don’t worry though unless Gabriel, the man who brought Islam to the world, shows up first with his pals.
Thats assuming his message to mohamed is what mohammed conveyed... but i tink mohammet cranked out his own crap and carnage.
To: TexasPatriot1
Acck Acck!
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:56:23 AM PDT
by
GunsAndBibles
(God save Calif. - 'cause it's gonna take a miracle.)
To: LibWhacker
This article is funny. Is someone proposing that we open the big ball that keeps all the radio waves contained to our galaxy thereby “accidentally” contacting them?
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:56:40 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
To: LibWhacker
They would be smart to avoid official contact with us.
I try to and I am not even an alien!!
They wold be better off leaving us to our own devices and do covert work with a few of us and leave the masses alone to figure it out.
I think they are interested in our development and are excited on the coming changes in the next decade or two.
Life is rare. Intelligent life, even rarer. Intelligent life with potential would be awesome.
Imagine seeing our history from a third party point of view! I hope they are recording this because it would be fascinating what their take is on it and what they see that we don’t.
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:57:02 AM PDT
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:58:56 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(It ain't Sidney Poitier...)
To: AU72
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:59:04 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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