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What people failed to notice here is that NASA basically announced that aliens are for real.
Would contact with extraterrestrials benefit or harm humanity? A scenario analysis
While humanity has not yet observed any extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), contact with ETI remains possible
Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa's Planetary Science Division and his colleagues compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, to help humanity "prepare for actual contact".
Originally posted by Kali74
Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa's Planetary Science Division and his colleagues compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, to help humanity "prepare for actual contact".
The if's in their language are getting smaller.
Originally posted by AnotherYOU
Reply to post by BigfootNZ
but the question remains.
do we really deserve to populate the stars and spread around the galaxy?
when we still dont quite know or understand what lies in our thickest jungles or the bottom of our oceans...
priorities right?
i say deny that ignorance first, then we may proceed into space exploration.
Why would an advanced Alien Race worry about us? We can hardly get a Shuttle into orbit and back without blowing it up. To talk about this issue a person must first understand that as far as how Aliens View Humanity....is lesser in scale of our possibility of being a threat than Humans view a Butterfly being a threat to us.
They are not concerned with us to the point of how a person is concerned with the moon crashing into the Earth....but even less so. This is OUR PROBLEM....as it took a long time just to get them to agree....and not all of them....to limit their activities on this planet to be as covert as possible....and they didn't even uderstand the concept to begin with.
You can't associate how we think and feel and percieve the Universe to how THEY do. There are few similarities and any concept of an Advanced Alien Culture have a similar sence....or any....of morality or concepts of right and wrong....is foolish. They do not think as we do nor do they even comprehend things that we would find as invasive or criminal.
To get a better picture of these differences....a person could observe the behavior of say....an Ant or a Bee colony as apposed to a single Humans concept of self determination and rights. I have never heard of an ant stop dismembering a possible food source or percieved threat....because it decieded it was WRONG.
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Originally posted by Swills
Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists
www.guardian.co.uk...
Oh NASA, you're so silly! We do need to clean up this planet and stop supporting those who would pollute and destroy it, I'm looking at you Big Oil, but we don't need an alien invasion to light a fire under our asses. Either we clean up our act or the world is destroyed by our own doing, not Aliens. Although, this fits nicely with the NWO Fake Alien invasion conspiracy.
Rising greenhouse emissions may tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report for Nasa
It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim. Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth's atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain. This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by scientists at Nasa and Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.