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!
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To: LibWhacker
Or maybe they don’t contact us because they just don’t care?
2 posted on
08/18/2010 11:45:13 AM PDT by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: LibWhacker
Or maybe we’re already in the galactic petrie dish under their observation.......
4 posted on
08/18/2010 11:47:43 AM PDT by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: LibWhacker
*facepalm*
Not this sh!t again...
6 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.
7 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?
8 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.
10 posted on
08/18/2010 11:52:07 AM PDT by
AU72
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.
12 posted on
08/18/2010 11:53:17 AM PDT by
rob777
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.
14 posted on
08/18/2010 11:53:35 AM PDT by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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?
17 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.
18 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
19 posted on
08/18/2010 11:58:56 AM PDT by
mikrofon
(It ain't Sidney Poitier...)
To: LibWhacker
I think the Mexicans know we're here whether we inform them or not.
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22 posted on
08/18/2010 12:00:49 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.)
To: LibWhacker
They have already been here and left.
24 posted on
08/18/2010 12:01:15 PM PDT by
mad_as_he$$
(Playing by the rules only works if both sides do it!)
To: LibWhacker
This is a very real threat. It threatens to snuff out human life within the century. I call it Global Cacophony® and propose that all nations except nations we have no control over developing nations like China reduce their transmitter outputs to pre-1950 levels and nightly brownouts be enacted immediately. The fate of our planet depends on it! And all the children say, "Don't be a Global Cacophony® denier, you Nazi!!!
25 posted on
08/18/2010 12:01:24 PM PDT by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: LibWhacker
This alien yes

This alien no

32 posted on
08/18/2010 12:05:38 PM PDT by
xp38
To: LibWhacker
36 posted on
08/18/2010 12:11:09 PM PDT by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: LibWhacker
Yet more Hawking nonsense.
40 posted on
08/18/2010 12:14:28 PM PDT by
onedoug
To: LibWhacker
What could a bunch of little green men do to us that would be any worse than what the war chimp has already done?
43 posted on
08/18/2010 12:20:32 PM PDT by
Augie
To: LibWhacker
If they have the technology to harm us at interstellar distances, then they already know we’re here and just don’t care. We aren’t a threat.
44 posted on
08/18/2010 12:22:47 PM PDT by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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