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I'm posting Chad's Publisher's Letter from our February issue of PUG here to get your thoughts.
How will we handle meeting Extraterrestrial beings for the first time? Will we respond with love, peace, hate, war, or something in between? Will we let fear control our actions, or will we allow our curiosities and general search for "more" to come into play?
Space Age Prejudice
By Chad Wilson
Publisher
http://www.paranormalunderground.net
With the recent discovery of a plethora of Earth-like exoplanets, that is planets in other solar systems, I don’t think it’s a matter of if there is other life in the Universe, but more a matter of when we will we discover these other life forms.
With the storied history of racism and prejudice on our planet, I am led to wonder how will we, as a species, react when we eventually meet face to face with life on other planets and more specifically, how we will react to other forms of life that are different than our own?
Knowing the human species and its propensity to segregate and ostracize that which it doesn’t understand, will we be able to fit into Galactic society with our common hang-ups over race, beliefs, gender, and the like?
Imagine if you will a life form based not on water, but say methane. Will we even consider the members of that species as being on the same level as us humans? Even more extreme, say we come across a life form that is like a bacteria. They might seem small and insignificant to us due to their size, but what do we know?
We define life according to our limited, Earth-bound view. We have only stepped out into our own solar system in the past 50 or so years, let alone a Galaxy that could very well be infinite in its scope.
Maybe this is why we are approached with apprehension by supposed alien visitors. Any extraterrestrial species who has observed our history will see us for what we are, a self-destructive species full of bigotry and hate.
Yes, we can also be compassionate, kind, and caring, but the former makes us less attractive as a species, even with the latter taken into account.
So, what are we to do as a species? Hopefully, in time we will grow and leave behind our tendency to try to control, conquer, and even destroy that which is different. Only then do I think we will be accepted by whatever other life are out there.
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Makes sense to me. I could see some people being accepting and others calling up the military to shoot them down. Also, if they were to review our history….well we would not be looked favorable upon in the respects of welcoming new people with open arms. Our planet has a nasty habit of not accepting right away. So this very well could explain why we have seen so few "visitors" to the planet.
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It seems as though since the 70's the mindset that aliens would hold our civilization in contempt
has been pretty prevalent. Who is to say that they wouldn't be a warrior race that would enlighten
humans on more new and improved methods of destruction? Just because a species may be
technically advanced does not automatically guarantee that they will be Nobel Peace Prize poster children.
It really all boils down to the "hope" that, when aliens make contact with humans on the planet earth, they
will be peace loving flower children of the cosmose. For our sake I really hope they are. Odds are though
that, if they are able to travel such great distances, they won't be here for tea or to study us for a biology tutorial.
They will ,I feel however, be here for something we have that they want or need. Speculation on this subject I'm sure is limitless given the lack of interest on the aliens part to contact us and clarify their reasons for being so elusive.
Until then I reserve the right to not assume the role of histories conquered peoples who welcomed their destroyers with gifts.
Erring on the side of extreme caution could only be respected by an intelligent alien race. /blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />
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It seems as though since the 70's the mindset that aliens would hold our civilization in contempt
has been pretty prevalent. Who is to say that they wouldn't be a warrior race that would enlighten
humans on more new and improved methods of destruction? Just because a species may be
technically advanced does not automatically guarantee that they will be Nobel Peace Prize poster children.
It really all boils down to the "hope" that, when aliens make contact with humans on the planet earth, they
will be peace loving flower children of the cosmose. For our sake I really hope they are. Odds are though
that, if they are able to travel such great distances, they won't be here for tea or to study us for a biology tutorial.
They will ,I feel however, be here for something we have that they want or need. Speculation on this subject I'm sure is limitless given the lack of interest on the aliens part to contact us and clarify their reasons for being so elusive.
Until then I reserve the right to not assume the role of histories conquered peoples who welcomed their destroyers with gifts.
Erring on the side of extreme caution could only be respected by an intelligent alien race.
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Very true. But I, for one, would rather be nice to the war mongering aliens with a bad temper then tick them off. They may have similar mind sets to us. In my view, make friends, dont make the aliens with hugely destructive and lethal weapons mad.
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Since the possibility exists that a planet could have developed like Earth then it is also possible that the beings also evolved the same. So if the planet is just a tad older, could they already be here?
Our planet being observed by an outsider would be seen for what it is. A planet in constant conflict. I wonder why any intelligent life would want to come here announced. No, I think it is more likely that they would pass us by or visit undetected. Should they visit, I would think that blending in would be the smart move and who’s to say they haven’t already.
Invasion is just not a smart move as it would take a large effort even for an advanced civilization and all it would do is destroy anything they might hope to accomplish. However, since it is more likely that visitors would come in small numbers I would think that, if we are even that interesting to anyone else, then they probably have already visited or even assimilated into our society many years or centuries ago.
Not such a farfetched idea when you sit down and really ponder the possibility.
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Since the possibility exists that a planet could have developed like Earth then it is also possible that the beings also evolved the same. So if the planet is just a tad older, could they already be here?
Our planet being observed by an outsider would be seen for what it is. A planet in constant conflict. I wonder why any intelligent life would want to come here announced. No, I think it is more likely that they would pass us by or visit undetected. Should they visit, I would think that blending in would be the smart move and who’s to say they haven’t already.
Invasion is just not a smart move as it would take a large effort even for an advanced civilization and all it would do is destroy anything they might hope to accomplish. However, since it is more likely that visitors would come in small numbers I would think that, if we are even that interesting to anyone else, then they probably have already visited or even assimilated into our society many years or centuries ago.
Not such a farfetched idea when you sit down and really ponder the possibility.
This is always sort of what I thought would happen, as well.
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Since the possibility exists that a planet could have developed like Earth then it is also possible that the beings also evolved the same. So if the planet is just a tad older, could they already be here?
Our planet being observed by an outsider would be seen for what it is. A planet in constant conflict. I wonder why any intelligent life would want to come here announced. No, I think it is more likely that they would pass us by or visit undetected. Should they visit, I would think that blending in would be the smart move and who’s to say they haven’t already.
Invasion is just not a smart move as it would take a large effort even for an advanced civilization and all it would do is destroy anything they might hope to accomplish. However, since it is more likely that visitors would come in small numbers I would think that, if we are even that interesting to anyone else, then they probably have already visited or even assimilated into our society many years or centuries ago.
Not such a farfetched idea when you sit down and really ponder the possibility.
I wonder if there will come a day when we will find out that a portion of our population is really an alien civilization (or some of them any way) that ventured here and blended in. Im not going to go around saying every person I meet isnt human, but whos to say aliens have to be little green men?
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I wonder if there will come a day when we will find out that a portion of our population is really an alien civilization (or some of them any way) that ventured here and blended in. Im not going to go around saying every person I meet isnt human, but whos to say aliens have to be little green men?
That is my take on it. If the universe was formed as in the Big Bang theory then all should be close to the same age. So if another planet was created and evolved like ours then the possibility of beings like us or even identical to us could also exist, I would think.
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That is my take on it. If the universe was formed as in the Big Bang theory then all should be close to the same age. So if another planet was created and evolved like ours then the possibility of beings like us or even identical to us could also exist, I would think.
thinking this much is giving me a headache, but not necessarily the same age due to suns being born, dying etc. does that make sense???
"We are the music makers... and we are the dreamers of dreams." - Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder)
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thinking this much is giving me a headache, but not necessarily the same age due to suns being born, dying etc. does that make sense???
Is not the same age very close. Maybe one evolution above. But I understand what your saying on the different ages of suns and such. But to me, unless they were evolved enough to move planets the oldest of civilizations would die when their sun did.
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I think it will be like in Mars Attacks all the pc people will be there and insult the aliens accidentally and it will all be over from there /tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />
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Since the possibility exists that a planet could have developed like Earth then it is also possible that the beings also evolved the same. So if the planet is just a tad older, could they already be here?
Our planet being observed by an outsider would be seen for what it is. A planet in constant conflict. I wonder why any intelligent life would want to come here announced. No, I think it is more likely that they would pass us by or visit undetected. Should they visit, I would think that blending in would be the smart move and who’s to say they haven’t already.
Invasion is just not a smart move as it would take a large effort even for an advanced civilization and all it would do is destroy anything they might hope to accomplish. However, since it is more likely that visitors would come in small numbers I would think that, if we are even that interesting to anyone else, then they probably have already visited or even assimilated into our society many years or centuries ago.
Not such a farfetched idea when you sit down and really ponder the possibility.
This is the first intelligent thought I've read in a while. I totally agree. I believe that they're already here & assimilated into our society, for whatever reason. Good point .
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If a race of aliens can travel hundred, thousands of light years to our planet I think they could very well have their way with us. Hey, if the stories are true, they've been 'probing' us for years without anyone stopping them. If aliens have visited up I am sure they have ways of comeing down and saying hello without getting anyone up in arms (re: 'probing us for years' remark I just made') and start a shooting war.
All I can say is….if they probe me can they look like Pam Anderson. Or Alissa Milano. **** I love her cookies.
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For some reason I am reminded of the scene in independence day
"City officials are asking Los Angelinos NOT to fire their handguns at the alien craft, you may inadvertently start an intergalactic war"…
you know it would happen, lol…
what the hell is that?
I dunno, just shoot it..
Andy
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