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Is THIS why we're yet to find aliens? Intelligent life may exist but be too SCARED of 'dangerous' humans to visit Earth, expert claims
UK Daily Mail ^ | 24 February 2022 | Jonathan Chadwick

Posted on 02/24/2022 6:16:15 AM PST by Scarlett156

Sci-fi films and TV shows have routinely depicted a brutal race of aliens visiting Earth in their spaceships and enslaving unfortunate Earthlings.

But according to one expert, extraterrestrial life may actually be too scared of 'dangerous' and 'violent' humans to want to come here.

Dr Gordon Gallup, a biopsychologist at the University of Albany, argues that humans are 'dangerous, violent and ceaselessly engage in endless bloody conflicts and war'.

For this reason, aliens with the technological capability of making a visit to Earth - if they exist - are likely inclined to stay away for fear of death and genocide, according to Dr Gallup.

No life beyond Earth has ever been found and there is no evidence that alien life has ever visited our planet. But this may be due to extraterrestrial life being too scared of 'dangerous' and 'violent' humans (artist's impression)

Dr Gordon Gallup (pictured) is a biopsychologist at the University at Albany

Dr Gallup has presented his argument in an open access paper published in the Journal of Astrobiology this month.

'If [alien life] exists it may have found us by now and discovered that humans are dangerous, violent and ceaselessly engage in endless bloody conflicts and war, and continually develop even more powerful weapons of mass destruction,' Dr Gallup says.

'It would also be obvious, that as a byproduct of increasing pollution, habitat destruction, coupled with endless wars, pillage, death, destruction and the desire for conquest, that humans pose an unparalleled and unprecedented risk not only to other life forms on Earth but to life on other planets.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; UFO's
KEYWORDS: albany; alienlife; biopsychologist; biopsychology; completeidiot; dailymail; extraterrestrials; fringe; gordongallup; jonathanchadwick; moron; newyork; ohsomysteriouso; theleftisbereft; ufo; ufos; unitedkingdom
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To: Salamander

But will they be jabbed, boosted and wear masks?


41 posted on 02/24/2022 6:37:31 AM PST by gcparent (God Bless America )
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To: COBOL2Java

I was trying so hard to think of that song.


42 posted on 02/24/2022 6:41:15 AM PST by Scarlett156 (Vaping is for homosexuals. )
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To: Salamander
That would be wonderful.
“Tough, fierce, independent. Humans are one of the most terrifying sapients in known space!”
43 posted on 02/24/2022 6:42:25 AM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Scarlett156

So they come across the interstellar distances, can survive just fine for years near us in space studying our broadcasts and understanding us. And they fear us militarily...rather than say for not having any natural immunity to the pathogens in our ecosystem?


44 posted on 02/24/2022 6:43:32 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: Salamander

Any ‘’intelligent’’ life out there probably figured a long time ago this was a neighborhood to avoid.


45 posted on 02/24/2022 6:46:13 AM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: Scarlett156

Trembling tran scrots.


46 posted on 02/24/2022 6:46:24 AM PST by bosco24 (EOD)
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To: Scarlett156; fwdude
Scared of us? Nah.


47 posted on 02/24/2022 6:46:33 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Imagine, if you will, a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it. )
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To: Salamander

Nobody with an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator is afraid of our firearms. Marvin the Martian shows what horrors await us in space...


48 posted on 02/24/2022 6:46:55 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Scarlett156
"biopsychologist at the University of Albany, argues that humans are 'dangerous, violent and ceaselessly engage in endless bloody conflicts and war'. For this reason, aliens with the technological capability of making a visit to Earth - if they exist - are likely inclined to stay away for fear of death and genocide,... "

Which irrationality is itself a deterrent, as if such technologically advanced life would find physical threats a real challenge, but dealing with the Liberal Mind might be.

49 posted on 02/24/2022 6:46:58 AM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: Scarlett156

Scientist or bad script writer? Can’t tell the difference anymore.


50 posted on 02/24/2022 6:48:33 AM PST by robel
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To: Scarlett156

Earth is tooooo far away and inhabited by Monsters


51 posted on 02/24/2022 6:52:03 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Salamander

Ditto that.


52 posted on 02/24/2022 6:52:21 AM PST by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: Scarlett156

Could be that Earth is the Baltimore of the universe.

“Keep flying Zork. Don’t even stop for gas.”

(props to Kathleen Madigan for her version)


53 posted on 02/24/2022 6:53:16 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: PIF

Do they taste like chicken?
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To me they taste more like cheese.


54 posted on 02/24/2022 6:53:55 AM PST by nagant
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To: nagant

Either way, kinda stringy.


55 posted on 02/24/2022 6:56:17 AM PST by robel
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To: Scarlett156
Intelligent life may exist but be too SCARED of ... humans to visit Earth, expert claims

Ummm...

Yeah, I could see that.


56 posted on 02/24/2022 6:58:32 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: Scarlett156
'If [alien life] exists it may have found us by now and discovered that humans are dangerous, violent and ceaselessly engage in endless bloody conflicts and war, and continually develop even more powerful weapons of mass destruction,' Dr Gallup says.

We're armed and crazy all of you kumbay-aliens.

See also: Russian invasions of Ukraine during the Trump administration. :-)

An interesting take on the alien invasion theme is the short story "The Road Not Taken" by Harry Turtledove. Interstellar travel is so easy someone in the iron age could do it but we just missed it somehow. Aliens attacked us with matchlock muskets. A few were skilled enough to get off a second shot, but not many.

57 posted on 02/24/2022 6:58:52 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Dictatorship: now available in maple flavor.)
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To: Flick Lives

“If there are aliens observing us, their technology could be 1.000 or 5,000 years more advanced than ours. They have little to be scared regarding their own safety. They may be simply curious and want to observe our behavior the way we might observe a species of monkey.”

I know I would not want to directly interact when the world was full of Dinosaurs... Could be similar. lol


58 posted on 02/24/2022 6:59:08 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

I’m not sure I would want to interact with a world of monkeys considering chimps’ propensity to rip off fingers, faces and genitals. It’s a madhouse!


59 posted on 02/24/2022 7:03:52 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Dictatorship: now available in maple flavor.)
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To: Mr. Lucky

Think about it...the journal he wrote for is based on on a subject that doesn’t exist at present. Like a journal on Centaur morphology. One thing for sure, there is little intelligence in the viewpoint. Just speculation.
Anyway his idea is an old one. OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET by C.S. Lewis briefly mentions it as the mindset of the extraterrestrials.


60 posted on 02/24/2022 7:06:36 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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