It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: imitator
a reply to: Greggers
Thank you for understanding, I probably seem to come off as cryptic... that's not my intention.... It's really just something simple..... and I think you know the answer.
Though It might take luthier awhile to figure it out, I didn't come in here to dispute theoretical physics.
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: mahatche
I can accept government secrecy on some things.
Intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe is not one of them. The 7+ billion people on this planet deserve to know and come to their own conclusions about how it affects them.
There comes a time, and they are rare, where people want to be treated like soldiers and told the whole truth rather than being treated like victims and kept in the dark.
originally posted by: mahatche
What if our government has already confirmed that there is life here, but we've learned from friendly aliens that are in contact with earth, that the species on this planet is actually hostile and more powerful than we are, so they hide it to prevent human curiosity from reaching out and pulling them this way?
What if hiding aliens is just the smart defense?
originally posted by: BrianFlanders
originally posted by: mahatche
What if our government has already confirmed that there is life here, but we've learned from friendly aliens that are in contact with earth, that the species on this planet is actually hostile and more powerful than we are, so they hide it to prevent human curiosity from reaching out and pulling them this way?
What if hiding aliens is just the smart defense?
Implausible. In that case it would be more likely that they would have already found us long before a friendly species would. Aggression or desperation seems to be what drives exploration. Yes, we like to think explorers are these benevolent enlightened ones but what does earth history say about that. What kind of guy was Columbus in reality?
originally posted by: luthier
a reply to: ChrisM101
I wonder if its possible to evolve as a species and be excessively violent without the ability to colloborate. You can only achieve so much by ruling with fear and violance before you loose creativity or destroy yourself. Just thinking out loud though that may be off base.
Now being species centric i can understand. Simply just wiping out a competitor on a planet so they can survive. As simply a logical conclusion of their own species survival.
luthier
I think your making some very broad generalizations.
luthier
Why not just say they will make contact through telepathy.