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 ...
But will they be jabbed, boosted and wear masks?
I was trying so hard to think of that song.
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?
Any ‘’intelligent’’ life out there probably figured a long time ago this was a neighborhood to avoid.
Trembling tran scrots.
Nobody with an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator is afraid of our firearms. Marvin the Martian shows what horrors await us in space...
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.
Scientist or bad script writer? Can’t tell the difference anymore.
Earth is tooooo far away and inhabited by Monsters
Ditto that.
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)
Do they taste like chicken?
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To me they taste more like cheese.
Either way, kinda stringy.
Ummm...
Yeah, I could see that.
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.
“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
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!
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.
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