I realize our science fantasy shows love to show all this lovely contact between alien races, sometimes even working together, sometimes at ‘odds’, yet rarely do you see entire planets or solar objects being destroyed.
Think about it: You have likely a thousand times closer relationship with ants or dolphins or even trees; tell me your plan to communicate with them before they decide that you're just too much trouble. The application of technology will be extermination not communication.
IF, by some grace of God, He sends to us people just like us, our first reaction should be to fire every single thing we have at them. Simply sharing the same air could easily create the most vicious epidemics we've ever experienced; something like Ebola might be a common vaccination among their people, making them immune and us wiped out in days.
There's really just no way around this. I know we crave for there to be something beyond us, above us, someone to take the journey with us. Heck, JUST the news of another entity out there would likely result in one of the deepest religious crisis ever. We argue over little points, imagine trying to rationalize another entity as one of God's creations, especially if they too believe they are made in God's image.
So, no, we've never had contact with an alien race. We've never been visited, and they certainly wouldn't give a flying rip about our petty nuclear plants or other ‘classic’ technologies. There will never be a pan galactic federation of aligned worlds unless we make it to destroy any other form of life we find.
Flights of fancy are wonderful, but the harsh reality is that it'll never happen in any of our lifetimes and it is questionable if it'll happen anywhere during the span of humanity. Yes, the odds say that life should exist out there. It also says that the chance is over billions of years and depending upon who you consult, humanity has been around for the smallest of fractions of that time.
There’s also the possibility we were seeded here and they are just doing “checkups” on their science experiment.
“Get off my lawn” is not exactly the most enlightened policy I can think of.
Quite the contrary, the technology of a very old advanced civilization would eventually calcify once all avenues of research have been fully explored. One valid option at that point would be to seed a new civilization then watch to see what new technological paths they uncover.
Not just technology either, but societal innovations and entertainments could be revolutionary to a stagnant civilization.
Fun to ponder even though I believe we are the only intelligent life in the universe.
I humbly suggest we stop thinking in terms of Star Trek or ET, and instead think in terms of the Bronx Zoo. Zookeepers and their charges are, by necessity and (you could say) by design, biologically compatible.
Yes, the odds say that life should exist out there. It also says that the chance is over billions of years and depending upon who you consult, humanity has been around for the smallest of fractions of that time.
The odds say nothing of the sort.
We do not have enough information to calculate the odds. But, given that we have found nothing, it suggests there is no other life form to communicate with us.
We may be effectively alone. Perhaps our duty to God is to populate the universe with life.
They are probably looking for intelligent life and wanting
to check out the ants as the only possibility.
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