Posted on 03/27/2019 11:51:02 AM PDT by ETL
One explanation that scientists explored at the METI meeting, is that aliens are aware of Earth and are observing us as we would observe animals kept in a zoo, METI President Douglas Vakoch said in a workshop.
If this is the case, humans should increase their efforts to create messages capable of reaching our "keepers," to demonstrate our intelligence, Vakoch explained.
For example, if a captive zebra were to suddenly tap out a pattern of prime numbers, humans would be required to re-evaluate their understanding of zebra cognition, "and we would be compelled to respond," according to EarthSky.
But what if we're not part of a vast alien zoo — what if, instead, humanity has been evaluated by alien civilizations, and subsequently "quarantined" from our galactic neighbors?
It's possible that extraterrestrials are actively isolating us from contact for our own good, because interacting with aliens would be "culturally disruptive" for Earth, meeting co-chair Jean-Pierre Rospars, honorary research director at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), said in a workshop.
Of course, it's also likely that we haven't heard from aliens because they're locked under a layer of ice in subsurface oceans ; trapped on massive "super-Earth" worlds by gravity's intense pull; or dead because their advanced civilizations have already destroyed themselves — as humanity might — through runaway consumption of their planet's natural resources.
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they’re here to serve man’..
Complete nonsense.
they’re here to serve man’..
And don’t ask me how I know. ;)
I heartily agree. It’s utter speculation with no basis in any fact whatsoever.
How come everyone assumes aliens are our better and not just swamp slugs of some type swimming around in a cosmic quagmire who know nothing of us?-)
I was going to add PREDATOR 5 where they get sent to a galactic preserve and all the bad ass dudes (from ex-Green berets to yakuza) from earth are the hunted..
No. Space is big. I mean REALLY big.
We also are only now starting to understand new means of communication that are generally not detectable to outsiders. Trust me, any advanced alien civilization is not using standard RF (radio frequency) communication. They most likely are using some form of “spooky action at a distance” quantum entanglement based communication or something even more advanced. So the answer to why we can’t hear them is we’re not advanced enough.
You wanna talk about alien zookeepers at a sci-fi conference? Go right ahead. But at a science conference?
I sure do miss the old days when scientific discussions were based on repeatable and verifiable experiments. And maybe a little math was thrown in. Now it seems like anything goes.
I’d like to say more, but Warden Zork from the Eighth Dimension is summoning me now.
Maybe we’re the most intelligent beings in the whole universe and our civilization is the most advanced.
Isn’t the most obvious answer that the speed of light really is a speed limit and that there is no way to go faster? So if there are intelligent aliens, they can’t get here in any practical time frame.
Most days, I don’t want to talk to us, either.
Everyone knows the zoo is on Tralfamadore.
*ping*
Aliens are watching and were going to visit when Hillary became President. When Trump won, the aliens continued to watch and hoped that the special council’s report would cause Trump to leave and be replaced by Hillary. Well now that Trump has won again, the aliens are done with humans!
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