posted on Apr, 18 2011 @ 06:35 PM
Originally posted by wasco2
reply to post by pitchdragon
Nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked, "If there are technologically advanced aliens in the galaxy then why aren't they here?" And went on
to explain his reasoning in what has become known as the Fermi Paradox:
Fermi's Paradox
The galaxy contains roughly a hundred billion stars. If even a very small fraction of these have planets which develop technological civilizations,
there must be a very large number of such civilizations. If any of these civilizations produce cultures which colonize over interstellar distances,
even at a small fraction of the speed of light, the galaxy should have been completely colonized in no more than a few million years [1]. Since the
galaxy is billions of years old, Earth should have been visited and colonized long ago. The absence of any evidence for such visits is the Fermi
paradox.
Note at the time it was not known how many, if any, other stars had planets orbiting them. Now we know that most stars probably have planets orbiting
them so the likelyhood of technologically advanced aliens is even higher yet still they are not here.
Do we have cooties?
Have they been here and decided we are not useful for anything and taste bad?
Are we really alone?
Is there a Galactic Federation that has put us under an embargo.
Who knows?
You definitely put it well.
The "cooties" idea is definitely one possibility i like to think about occasionally. I've read/watched stuff that say they pretty much came down a
long time ago and laid out the makings for a species to advance into us, by whichever means, just for the sake of creating a race to enslave and use
for whatever miscellaneous work. I think people like Einstein, and several other inventors, artists over the centuries may have given the impression
that we hold a greater worth than mere slaves (a percentage of us anyways XD). As for why they wait so much..... well with advanced tech their lives
could be seriously significantly longer..... so it wouldn't be a surprise to me if not only were they a more calculating, but much more patient
race.
So what could they be waiting for...... Well, I'd like to think that they hope that if they give us enough time we won't need saving, and that
accomplishment alone would be a great thing for our species that they may feel they do not have the right to take (given they are the friendly wise
types). They could already be helping us and pushing us in the general direction, just from the sidelines as to not encourage large populations to
just flock to them for all the answers and help we need to live the grand lives that some of us do.
I really feel that a lot of people turn to much to gods and those around them for the fixes to their problems. Its good to be able to have those
around you who will lend a helping hand..... but to have people rob you of the ability to be self-reliant for the most part is kind of saddening. In
the end you have mass amounts of people looking to a select few for answers...... which can be good..... or can lead to crap like the holocaust.
So who knows, maybe they are friendly peeps who just want to see if we can learn to pick ourselves up. Cause if they weren't friendly.... I cannot
really see them just leaving us alone once they find us.... unless they aren't all that more advanced protection wise from our weapons and/or are
smart alongside being malevolent.
Personally I hope they are friendly..... the idea that there is an actual "big brother(s)" up in the sky, giving us slight nudges in the right
direction to protect us from ourselves, while at the same time showing us what kind of people we need to be if we wish to live up in the big blue
bayou alongside them and whoever is out there. Cause if we ever to plan to go out into the stars..... we cannot be the same people who stole the
united states from the natives, cannot be the people rounding up jews, blacks, "witches" and burning/hanging/baking them in ovens. If those types
continue to hold power as we go out into space, then it will only lead to people of our own species becoming the exact kind of aliens we fear of
meeting; savage thieving self-centered Beasts. That and the rest of us peaceful types will be associated and blamed by those blinded by/seeking
revenge.
I think they are waiting for more of the human populations to on average, "grow up". For all we know there could already be humans way Way the he!!
out there alongside our universal siblings, simply reaping the rewards of living a truly caring/giving life on a planet filled with some seriously
deranged beings.