Scientist warns world to 'think twice before replying to alien signals from outer space'

Professor Matthew Bailes said 'the history of weak civilisations contacting more advanced civilisations is not a happy one'

"... he warned that making contact with aliens capable of transmitting powerful signals to Earth over tens of thousands of light years could lead humanity into disaster, because they're likely to be so much more advanced."

Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.

There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension.

I am Sovereign.

Reaper? A label created by the Protheans to give voice to their destruction. In the end, what they chose to call us is irrelevant. We simply... are.

Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither and die. We are eternal, the pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.

Confidence born of ignorance. The cycle cannot be broken. The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance, and at the apex of their glory they are extinguished. The Protheans were not the first. They did not create the Citadel. They did not forge the mass relays. They mere found them - the legacy of my kind. Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays. Our technology. By using it, your civilization develops along the paths we desire.

We impose order on the chaos of organic life. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it. My kind transcends your very understanding.

We are each a nation - independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence. We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite. Millions of years after your civilization has been eradicated and forgotten, we will endure.

We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvrIFIjTGt0

3 posted on 07/22/2015 8:38:50 PM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)

Eh. If the aliens come in force, we’ll break out the Slim Whitman records.

Stops them every time.

Given what my Bible tells me, humans are IT for intelligent life and the Earth is IT for life. I’m not concerned about attracting non-existent extra-terrestrials by sending signals into space. Perhaps the money spent on such useless ‘science’ could be used to research better ways to grow food in places life Africa and India, for example.

If they are asking you to transfer funds to a Nigerian bank account, please contact me, for small fee of 15% I can assure you this transaction will be processed in accordance with all inter planetary regulations.

What stupidity.

If antagonistic aliens capable of interstellar flight existed, we would already be splatted. Despite movies such as Independence Day, we would not stand a chance.

Ergo, if such aliens exist, they are not antagonistic. And we are at best a zoo or comedy show for them.

You do understand that a belief in God and the possibilty that we are not his only creations are not mutually exclusive.....right?

It sounds like the discovery of other intelligent life will shatter your beliefs.....

It wont shatter mine.

Dear Twit Brain Bains:
If they are advanced enough to pick up our deliberate signals they are advanced enough to watch I Love Lucy, a signal that has traveled further than SETI.

That may be simply because The Bible is our book, about our planet and our salvation.

Those other people elsewhere have their own paths and books.

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