“We couldn’t fight them off if we wanted to. That’s why I don’t think they’re a threat to us, or they would already have been.”
We’re meaner than they are and there’s a whole lot more of us. That’s why they won’t try anything.
They have watched the selection of what passes for entertainment on TV and movies and in advertisement and just pity us.
“We’re meaner than they are and there’s a whole lot more of us. That’s why they won’t try anything.”
Said the king of the ant hill. Ha Ha.
I guess we could look at this stuff in a couple of ways. The first is to assign them our goals of exploration: Curiosity and the attainment of natural resources. If that is the case, we would be poked and prodded and then harvested. We would fare no betting than the Native Americans. First, it is inevitable that we would “catch” any unknown diseases—which would wipe out most of us. And the rest would be swept aside.
Another way would be to look at them as conquerers. They would not announce their approach and would simply wipe us out and harvest our resources.
Another way is to look at their approach as simply scientific. They would send “drones” to map and observe. The “craft” we are “seeing” are certainly not attack or invasion craft. Instead, they appear to be inert and illusive.
If you accept a couple of other theories, they are inter-dimensional or or time craft of some manner. Our actions might be spilling into their worlds—and they aren’t happy about it.
The long and short of it is that a common worker bee from any of those “civilizations” would have technology that, as Asimov said, would appear to us as magic. Yesterday someone mentioned the Cargo Cults of the South Pacific. I believe we have a lot of that going on.
In the end, I think if there is something out there/here and it has been recovered by us, the tech is explainable and some humans may have mastered it. In those cases the magic would quickly be erased.
But, if we have learned about frictionless travel and cheap energy...and we released it to the world, our economies would tailspin. Our economy is based on oil. Our food and production is still heavily tied to transportation. What would happen if you could build a craft that could move products from a plant in China to a retail location in DesMoines at little or not cost? What would happen if you have the free energy to spend on desalinization in Africa?
Whomever controlled that technology would HAVE to make it available to the rest of the world immediately, or they would face the wrath of those left out.
The philosophical, economic, and moral implications would literally be earth changing.
The whole thing about “disclosure” is not about learning that “something is out there.” It isn’t about religion. It is about the paradigm changing in an instant. What was valuable yesterday...would be worthless today. THAT is what these people are talking about.
Don’t fear the little green men. Fear the greedy bastards who are “in charge” and who have been keeping the rest of the world poor for the past 80 years. I get the sense the rest of the world isn’t going to be happy they were kept in the dark.