Thursday 14 April 2011

Aliens

Sounds legit to me
  I recently read online a report claiming that a memo had been found that proved the existence of aliens, discussing them having been found in Roswell in 1950. Now, I have no doubt that this report is bs and the pictures attached are fake (not least because it's a report by The Daily Mail), but do not doubt at all that there is life elsewhere in the universe than on our little planet.
  That said, I do not think that as a species we will ever encounter alien life (not least in my lifetime), because while there are many many planets, and so many inhabitable planets, and so undoubtedly some with life, the probability of any of these inhabited planets being remotely near to us is slim... I know that if what the attached report is saying is true, then surely the species to which the aliens belonged would have come to Earth in order to try to track down their lost comrades, or to avenge them...
Picture semi-related, but also kinda cool...
  But, even if alien life were to be real, what possible positive outcomes for the human race could come from this knowledge? Assuming they didn't completely destroy our planet and us (which if they were able to locate and get to us, shouldn't be a problem for them), they would be very likely to be peaceful towards us. I'd rate the chances of coexistence being about 20%, with negligible chances of us being able to dominate them. Now if these  aliens were to, for whatever reason, fall into that 20% chance of being peaceful, we have to look at what would change for our society.
  Sure, in the billions of years when Earth becomes uninhabitable we'd have somewhere to move to, but it's far more likely that the lifetime of the alien's planet would be shorter than that of ours... We could get their knowledge, their understanding of the universe, science, medicine, and weapons. Understanding would be nice, but wouldn't really benefit anything other than our curiosity... Medicine for our already overpopulated planet wouldn't be great, and alien weaponry would undoubtedly be bad... (Though it could enable us to dominate other lifeforms should that day come).
District 9; good film...
  Anybody who gives the outcome of alien communication any thought should be able to see that it is on the whole a bad thing, yet still people try ever harder to communicate with aliens! Can't we just live our lives without them? Let me know what you think in the comments

19 comments:

  1. but if there are, you cant just ignore it

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  2. I'm hoping of living in coexistence if we'd ever meet any. However, I think we'd see lots of segregation etc.

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  3. The way I see it is that even if there are extraterrestrials, there is no reason why they would be so advanced that they would find us first. I mean, if it took a certain amount of time for our solar system to be created, a similar thing could have happened somewhere else. Also their genetics may have not given them certain advantages we have, so we might have to find them first.
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  4. Pretty sure if they came to visit then one our world's leaders would do something stupid like shoot first and ask questions later. There is no peace with humans.

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  5. I don't think there are aliens, but just in case there are, I hope we can get along :p

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  6. I believe that there are aliens. And they are already here. I think there is plenty of proof. Check this out:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87PRVP4EQAo

    Nice article by the way.

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  7. I don't really believe that there is alien, there may be but if there are any I think they are too far away for us to find.

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  8. Pretty good video False_Chicken, but I remain unconvinced :D

    AD, we were set back loads technologically by things like Christianity... Plus if resources existed in different abundances here we could be in a pretty different place technologically

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  9. World has too many problems right now, being harassed by alien faggots is the last thing we need right now.

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  10. Why should they be the ones to destroy our planet? Why can't we destroy theirs? :P

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  11. District 9 was a great movie. I can't wait for them to make another.

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  12. Kill aliens, take their resources, kill hippies who interfere - unlimited profit

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  13. It would be interesting to know about aliens, are they like us (same body) ?
    Do they have sciences, religions, etc.. ? I wish I know some day before I die :P

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  14. OatmealStout, I think they would destroy us rather than us them because their technology would have to be more advanced than ours in order to locate and to reach us...

    Joubz, I think they probably would have religions or something of a similar nature; curiosity (as to a cause of the universe et cetera) is what helps make a species great...

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  15. Those are all very good points. I am personally unsure how the masses would react to an alien encounter.

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  16. Awsome points! Really interesting read. I like your blog im gonna follow it!

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