Posted on 09/23/2016 3:01:14 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
For more than a century we have been broadcasting our presence to the cosmos. This year, the faintest signals from the world’s first major televised event – the Nazi-hosted 1936 Olympics – will have passed several potentially habitable planets. The first season of Game of Thrones has already reached the nearest star beyond our Solar System.
So why hasn’t ET called us back?
There are plenty of obvious answers. Maybe there are no intelligent space aliens in our immediate cosmic vicinity. Perhaps they have never evolved beyond unthinking microbial slime or – based on our transmissions – aliens have concluded it is safer to stay away. There is, however, another explanation: ET is nothing like us.
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Perhaps they are already here.
Come in, Quix. Come in, please.
>>The first season of Game of Thrones has already reached the nearest star beyond our Solar System.<<
“These humans seem to get naked for no particular reason.”
Somewhere in here we must employ the word ‘oxymoron.’
If they’re interested in us, they’re not intelligent life forms - they’re oxymorons.
It is too bad, he was amusing and quite insightful when not ridding his favorite hobby horse.
What if aliens only stop here to let their pet take a leak?
Or, what if we all had a universe underneath our fingernails, and WE are just a little tiny universe underneath a GIANT’S fingernail?
What about that, huh? Think about it, man.
“If they’re interested in us, they’re not intelligent life forms - they’re oxymorons”
Send more Chuck Berry!
Pass the bong, man.
I’ve read the book and/or seen the movie!
But Jim has revived his account so he still might notice and come in for a comment.
Humans are the scummiest fungus ever.
Foolish Earthlings!
Ignore this story!
Get back to work!
That is all.
I don’t know... the Kanamits didn’t exactly look like theoretical physicists to me...
There are a few possibilities:
1) There is no life anywhere in the Universe, except here on Earth (and perhaps on Europa).
2) There is life elsewhere, but it isn’t capable of any kind of spaceflight.
3) It is capable of spaceflight, but too far away from us for it to matter - they either can’t come to us, or it isn’t worthwhile for them because there are 250 billion other planets with resources that are closer to them.
4) There are intelligent aliens capable of spaceflight, and they’re relatively close by, but they choose not to contact/invade us for a variety of reasons - e.g. it is against their moral code; they are frightened of how violent we are; they are observing us in a manner not unlike how we observe insects; they are worried about the spread of disease; they are too weakened by war, disease, etc. to send ships here (yet); or they are preparing for contact or invasion as we speak.
5) There are intelligent aliens capable of spaceflight, and they have already visited us (and may still be visiting us, and we just don’t know it).
Keep in mind that any aliens capable of spaceflight to this solar system would necessarily have to be incredibly technologically advanced compared to us. They’d be further ahead of us than we are now ahead of the Aztecs in the early 1500s. If they wanted to invade us it wouldn’t even be a fight - I would expect that they would simply terraform the planet for themselves, notwithstanding (and not caring about) the fact that we are living on it - we’d be gone in a matter of weeks or months in the best case. Alternatively, if they were OK with the climate, they could simply destroy us by destroying our technology (starting with a gigantic EMP to make all of our computers and communications crap out), and watching us starve to death, die from disease, fighting, etc. It’d take a bit longer, but not that much longer. Or they could just bombard the planet with asteroids, rendering the place unfit for habitation (if they didn’t care about wasting a planet for a few hundred years). IOW, IF there are aliens, and IF they are nearby enough and capable of space travel, then we had better hope that they have moral inhibitions about killing other species - cuz otherwise, we’re toast.
“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS—EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE”.
It must have been difficult when the west encountered the Japanese, with no root word in common. Now think of encountering a race with not root concepts in common. Suppose they don’t have sex, but simply divide. Suppose they have little physical form and create technology by linking molecules together. Suppose they breath liquid helium and live in such a cold environment they would explode here and we would be crushed and frozen there. What would we talk about? You guys want to listen to some Chuck Berry? How about we have some slimy Robert Heinlein interspecies sex?
The tiny radio signals we produce are insignificant;y small compared to the giant sun.
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