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sled735
This is how the government plants fear into people's mind about outside life visiting us using the media.
It's brain-washing, people! Pure and simple by our beloved government. They don't want us to accept that the aliens could be coming to help us! That would mean their loss of control over us!
Oh man! I hope everyone sees what's going on here... how these movies are planting ideas into the public's mind!
sled735
This is how the government plants fear into people's mind about outside life visiting us using the media.
sled735
The narrator even speaks with a negative, sinister tone about them, piling on all the negative effect the show can muster!!
sled735
Yeah, they COULD be coming to take over the world, but shouldn't we find out what their motives are before we attack them? And, yes, if they are under our attack, they're probably going to fight back. Wouldn't you?
sled735
Not all of them are bad, with evil intentions for us. Some want to help us.
sled735
It's brain-washing, people! Pure and simple by our beloved government. They don't want us to accept that the aliens could be coming to help us! That would mean their loss of control over us!
sled735
Oh man! I hope everyone sees what's going on here... how these movies are planting ideas into the public's mind!
I'm pissed!!!
JadeStar
ZetaRediculian
reply to post by JadeStar
Alien invasion ideas are fairly juvenile and scientifically illiterate.
Personally I am looking forward to the next season of falling skies.
So am I!!! I love that show! lol
I will say one thing about that show. One thing about Spielberg is that he does a very good job making it all plausible.edit on 2-1-2014 by JadeStar because: (no reason given)
DeadSeraph
reply to post by sled735
I don't understand why you're so upset over it? It's based on a hypothetical situation. Hypothetically speaking, there could be some completely sentient robot civilization out there that wiped out their creators and is in the business of consuming planets for resources and self replication. Think borg, or The Matrix.
Starcrossd
I wouldn't get too upset about the show OP. I agree with the general consensus, it's just a show they put together for ratings.
True, some could be hostile but why come unfathomable distances to blast us off of our planet? If they really wanted humans gone it would be so simple to drop a microbe here and there or even a neutron bomb to annihilate us. I would imagine though that their needs would be so different that coming here to destroy us wouldn't make much sense. I suppose they could need raw genetic material for whatever reasons.
On another note; Can you tell us more about the 'beam of light' experience you had?
JadeStar
There is a better program on The Science Channel called Alien Encounters. I think it was a 3 part series.
One was called "The Message", another was called "The Arrival". I forget what the other in between them was called. I think it might have been "The Reaction". Not sure.
It seemed to be the more realistic scenario as the "aliens" are pretty much unfathomable/indifferent. Not evil. Not cuddly ET either.
There are some excerpts from it here: science.discovery.com... but I can't find whole episodes there or on Youtube unfortunately. Keep an eye out for it because it has re-aired several times.edit on 2-1-2014 by JadeStar because: (no reason given)edit on 2-1-2014 by JadeStar because: (no reason given)
NSM4747
JadeStar
There is a better program on The Science Channel called Alien Encounters. I think it was a 3 part series.
One was called "The Message", another was called "The Arrival". I forget what the other in between them was called. I think it might have been "The Reaction". Not sure.
It seemed to be the more realistic scenario as the "aliens" are pretty much unfathomable/indifferent. Not evil. Not cuddly ET either.
There are some excerpts from it here: science.discovery.com... but I can't find whole episodes there or on Youtube unfortunately. Keep an eye out for it because it has re-aired several times.edit on 2-1-2014 by JadeStar because: (no reason given)edit on 2-1-2014 by JadeStar because: (no reason given)
Good to know, i might try to find it from World Wide Dataspace
(Imagine) if we were the aliens. Lets say a million years older than we are now...
Astyanax
reply to post by JadeStar
(Imagine) if we were the aliens. Lets say a million years older than we are now...
That is both impossible and irrelevant. The only thing we can reasonably do is imagine aliens who resemble us as we are now, and as we have always been: very, very dangerous.
That's the only thing you can do.
Your thinking about deep time is rather limited. There have been societies on earth which were not very dangerous or aggressive. They typically lived in abundance so it's called extrapolating.
If one understands the reasons we've been dangerous its been mostly down to fighting over bits of this tiny rock and the resources on it.
Why fight over infinite worlds?