And he's like "Because they're afraid!! We're warlike and aggressive and they're afraid of us."
If they were capable of finding us in the first place, they can pretty much do whatever they want with us. Or so I would think.
I don't doubt that there are other life forms out there in the universe somewhere. The odds are in favor of it.
However, consider that there are many entities (human entities) who might have what they consider to be a good reason to get large numbers of people to believe they're being watched by spacemen.
Note: This article mentions L Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.
“”Because they’re afraid!! We’re warlike and aggressive and they’re afraid of us.””
Good.
Stay off my lawn.
Some has been watching too much Star Trek.
Is this what passes for science?
Maybe they observed the 2020 BLM / Antifa riots and thought “If THIS is what Earthings consider a peaceful protest, let’s get outta here.”
That guy may be onto something. Maybe he saw one of Biden’s press conferences.
I wished I could be an expert. That way I could make lots of money making up things and never be responsible for being wrong.
So its not that aliens would put humans on their menu, but humans would put aliens on our menu - got it. Do they taste like chicken?
Fiction for sure
Science..not so much.
This “expert” knows what aliens are thinking? His idea is one of the stupidest reasons I’ve heard. If they have the technology to cross a hundred trillion or so miles of frozen vacuum to get here, all our nukes are like flea bites compared to what they must have.
Afraid?
No, they are laughing at us....................
That is my first thought. A civilization that has mastered interstellar and/or interdimensional travel would probably give us the level of attention and interest that I give an anthill in the woods behind my house.
If it's a fire ant mound that encroaches into my yard, yeah, I would perceive a threat and deal with it appropriately, but otherwise alien technology would probably be as far beyond our scope as my car and computer are beyond the grasp of the ants in the woods.
Civilizations based on evolved organic life are too brief in their existence to have two existing simultaneously in the same galactic neighborhood.
Post-organic artificial intelligence civilizations see no point in screwing around with organic life civilizations.
Star Trek Insurrection...America is a holodeck.
They monitored what Biden did to Corn Pop so they are waiting until Biden is no longer around. Too dangerous to tangle with him.
I’m sure this guy is up for one of those $1 million dollar genius awards that universities like to award.
If they picked up broadcasts of TikTok I can understand.
What’s that cannibal island people are told not to go to? And some chick went there a couple years ago, and the predictable happened? Yeah it’s possible aliens look at as a cannibal island.
Of course the reality is that space is HUGE and we haven’t made much of a footprint. So they probably don’t know about us.
This is a common contention of the self-loathing, flagellating humans of the left. By declaring that humans are generally worthy of annihilation, they place themselves above the rabble and imagine themselves as the ironic and wise greek chorus of the movie in their head. Plus they think other liberals will regard such sentiments as noble and enlightened.
The universe is so vast that I am sure there are innumerable planets with “intelligent” life, but they would all be so many millions of light years away that it is irrelevant.
By definition, any aliens who might visit Earth would have to be tool builders / technological and curious. Whales, for example, might be intelligent, but they’re not going to be building rockets and exploring the cosmos.
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.