Posted on 06/23/2012 8:13:17 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
If they were technologically advanced enough to get here, I doubt we would be any threat to them, no matter how violent or insane we were. The Aztecs were violent and insane, but the Spanish had no problem subduing them and putting them to work for them.
Point taken, but we're just having an intellectual exercise here.
What would be the upside in making open contact with earthlings for an advanced extraterrestrial race? I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Thanks NormsRevenge.
![]() |
||
· join · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post new topic · subscribe · | ||
Google news searches: exoplanet · exosolar · extrasolar · | ||
“What would be the upside in making open contact with earthlings for an advanced extraterrestrial race?”
Pets? Slaves? Inter-species concubines?
I don’t know and I don’t really care much, since I don’t think there are any alien races out there. I think we’re it.
Not to belittle you, but do you have any inkling of the astronomical odds against that being the case?
Try to wrap your head around this....there are around 100 billion stars in the average galaxy. Scientists are now finding that nearly all stars have planets of one type or another - many with the same density as ours (which indicates the presence of water).
There are more galaxies in the known universe than all the grains of sand on every beach on earth.
I know it's an impossible task, but just try to conceptualize 100 billion stars for every last grain of sand on this planet. EACH of them with planetary systems.
Heck, just try thinking with the fact that there are 100 billion suns in our own galaxy, MOST of them with planetary systems. That's 100 billion chances for life to develop in some place other than here. Look at the sheer numbers involved with this for a while, and you'll realize why the scientific community no longer asks the question "if" there's life beyond our planet, but "where" it is.
Yet, the entire argument rests on believing that life can spontaneously arise and organize itself out of non-life. If that is not possible, then you can have 100 billion, 100 trillion, or 100 zillion chances and it doesn’t matter one bit.
No one's ever proved that life spontaneously arose and organized itself on this planet. I'm afraid that's not the basis for the entire argument that life exists elsewhere in the universe.
In fact, the question of 'how' life arises, is completely irrelevant and non-sequitur to the conversation about life elsewhere in the universe. The sheer scale of the numbers involved with the question, argue for a 100% certainty that life exists, and is even abundant, throughout the universe.
We don't need to know how life arises to examine the question of extraterrestrial life. Our planet is proof that life can and does arise.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.