Aliens at last?

GopherT

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R!f@@

Joined Apr 2, 2009
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A notch (a small cut with a pocket knife) in your bed post is a method to register each visitors to your bed. Maybe more common in countries with a lower divorce rate. In your country, you may just count sets of divorce papers.
Hee hee. I change the bed on each visitor...How about that ?

We break the record on everything.
 

tracecom

Joined Apr 16, 2010
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I recently binge watched the first two and a half seasons of Fallen Skies. Although it finally exceeded my capacity for suspending disbelief and I won't watch the remaining episodes, it wasn't the sci-fi content that sank, but rather the stupid and amateurish use of "dream scenes," excessive plot coincidences, and other poor writing that pushed me from the viewing ranks. (For example, Tom rubbed two sticks together in a rain forest to cause a pile of straw to suddenly explode into flames.)

On the other hand, some of the alien situations were interesting and stimulated my imagination at what just might be possible.
 

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cmartinez

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J_Rod

Joined Nov 4, 2014
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What could super-advanced aliens want to do with us, in the first place?

  • My first guess would be to simply study us and learn (most likely how not to do things). Or they might take DNA samples from earth organisms and add them to their library.
  • My second choice would be the exploitation of our natural resources. But I find that extremely unlikely, since water (for instance) could be more easily extracted from comets, and minerals from asteroids. Instead of having to haul them out from earth's gravity in the first place.
  • My third, and probably most scary theory, is that they might want to impose on us some intergalactic religion, political system, or existentialist rule, so that every single civilization that they touch ends up believing in the same thing, acting the same way and obeying the same laws... or else. It is this desire for a brutal uniformity (be it religious, ideological or political) that has driven most of humanity's bloodiest historical events, and I see no reason why another intelligent species wouldn't act the same way
In my imagination, it's conceivable that some of these aliens might study us, for whatever purpose they have in mind, just as some people study insects and bacteria. I doubt there is much they could learn from us in regards to our civilization, however, as their technology would be billions of years beyond us. How long ago would they have had to send out these radio signals, if they are from our own galaxy, let alone another galaxy? Inconceivable! It's also unlikely that these aliens understand our world at all. It is so far beneath them, then what is unknown to us is also unknown to them. That's why you don't see flying saucers everyday - although they very well may be here somehow. I also think that they would not need any resources from us, but if they did, they would violently take what they want. That's like people who kill off pests, or even farm animals. That's why it's possible that we are serving some kind of purpose for these aliens, just as animals have long ago been domesticated. We wouldn't even know it. Another possibility is that these radio signals are an attempt to probe this planet, or a communication with something already on this planet.
 

WBahn

Joined Mar 31, 2012
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I doubt there is much they could learn from us in regards to our civilization, however, as their technology would be billions of years beyond us.
On what do you base this claim? Consider where humanity was just a hundred years ago compared to where we are today. Now extrapolate that just a few hundred years.
 

Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
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There are many more resource in out solar system than on this puny planet. The only thing we might have that would be interesting in unique real estate. If they were that advanced they could make their own.
 
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