Submitted by Gari_305 t3_yowbpx in Futurology
ilaissezfaire t1_ivgiij8 wrote
I think it's hilarious, that we assume an alien race with advanced tech will arrive and ask someone to take them to our "leader". In all honesty, with their advanced tech, we wouldn't have a remote say in anything they'd want to do.
SamohtGnir t1_ivhgofg wrote
I wouldn't be too concerned. 90% of the motives that stories give to aliens for attacking Earth really don't add up in the real world. If there was contact it'd probably be more of trying to observe and study us without interfering.
ilaissezfaire t1_ivhp1xa wrote
According to some accounts, Jimmy Carter may have learned something along these lines. Based on that line of rational, If the theory that they created us and religion to keep us from wiping ourselves out while they studied us is correct, then the rumor that if we stop killing each other in exchange for higher tech may also be plausible.
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Ex defense minister from Canada (And I'd just like to put that these people, like Paul Hellyer, Ben Rich and Boyd Bushman had top secret clearance in their jobs, it's highly unlikely decorated people are just trying to make a name for themselves as I've seen some rationalizations, so any arguing by lower ranking officials or naysayers at this point is moot - this has been documented)
"Paul Hellyer, who has long insisted that aliens have visited Earth for many years, says that when aliens saw the atomic bomb they decided that we were a great threat to the cosmos." Here is an interesting- if not strange -article about that.
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SamohtGnir t1_ivjhf8w wrote
I've heard many theories that aliens created us, or at least sped up our evolution. I don't really give any of these any credit. I think most people who believe these are not able to grasp how evolution and development of technologies could very easily have happened just fine without any outside interference.
I did hear an idea recently that once our ancestors left the tress and started venturing out that they may have started ingesting psychedelic mushrooms, and the mind altering reactions can help explain how the brain doubled in size in only a 2 million year period.
myusernamehere1 t1_ivkuqd0 wrote
Mushrooms could not have led to an evolutionary change, as they dont effect your genetics. The doubling of brain size was an evolutionary arms race for intelligence.
ilaissezfaire t1_ivjuqj8 wrote
Well, I've taken religion classes in college and have done thousands of hours on reading ancient texts so I do, give weight to these theories.
OffEvent28 t1_ivlip2g wrote
The problem with such silly stories is that aliens with interstellar travel capacity would never consider us a threat. They could exterminate us in minutes, or disarm us in a few more minutes. Even things that WE are thinking about creating would make the "conquest" of Earth a trivial task. Too many movies where the humans defeat the alien invaders have led people to think that somehow we would always win.
ilaissezfaire t1_ivlvaw2 wrote
Not if they made and are actively observing us. Anyway I'm not a high enough of a ranking official to know either way but there have been several congressional hearings related to UFOs , there's only so many coincidences, you know? Its healthy to be skeptical though.
vrenak t1_ivgj8kz wrote
Hopefully they act more like Vulcans than Sheliak.
ilaissezfaire t1_ivgl3qg wrote
One could hope. Though, I don't think Vulcans would approve of our emotional gender tantrums.
vrenak t1_ivgma9a wrote
Well at least they won't "eradicate the infestation", provided we don't somehow manage to get a superlong complex treaty in place.
IH4v3Nothing2Say t1_ivh0ref wrote
That’s just Hollywood, folklore and other imaginative story tellers. I believe that we hope to at least get a signal back from some location that lets us know we’re not alone. Similar to being stuck out in the ocean all by ourselves with no sight of shore or life at all, just calling out or using flares and hoping for any sort of response.
What’s the worst that can happen? Aliens causing a massive extinction of life on Earth? We’re already doing that ourselves and pretending we’re not. So, I’d say the benefits outweigh the negatives. But, so far we aren’t getting back any responses, and we might not ever either.
ilaissezfaire t1_ivh1aa9 wrote
I mean, the worst that can happen would be something like a second inquisition but what do I know.
Or parasitic entities that eat us from the inside out while wearing our skin.
I could continue.
INCOGNITOdoggie4444 t1_ivhhx5e wrote
curious to see what being an alien slave would be like 👍
Randall-Flagg22 t1_ivi004n wrote
yep. We're only just getting the tech now available to see their craft, hence the recentish video releases from the pentagon and AATIP.
So yeah I mean they're doing their own thing already, they appear to be already here.
OffEvent28 t1_ivlhaiy wrote
Indeed. The aliens would probably be the ones guiding the conversation, choosing what to say to who and when. Governments would never be able to control the dialog.
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