On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 12:23:47 PM UTC-6, agrays...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 9:49:55 AM UTC-7, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 10:07 AM, <agrays...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > >>> I plead stupidity. I still don't get it. >>> >> >> Your plea is duly noted and entered into the court record. >> >> >>> > >>> Why would the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence imply doom for >>> humanity? >>> >> >> Ask the flying saucer people that are running around Roswell. >> >> John K Clark >> >> > > You're a prick. AG >
Alan --- in case you have not gotten a sense of things, talking about UFOs and grey aliens is just stoner talk. Curiously I see these things as forming the narratives for what might be emerging as the new religions. I think comic book superheros are serving this as well. These things are filling in the role of gods or superbeing, where traditional monotheism is disintegrating. We seem to be seeing the emergence of pseudoscientific polytheistic semi-belief systems. L Ron Hubbard had sort of the right idea along these lines. However, none of that stuff has any scientific merit. There are a number of ways finding aliens might mean our doom. Assume in this galaxy we find a number of ET species out there at approximately our level of development. This would then mean no alien species has reached the level of super-advanced, say type II or III civilization, and most or all die out before reaching that. That would presumably include us as well. Also if we found a type III civilization was somewhere out there taking over this galaxy they would swat us away in a moment if we stood in their way. If they wanted to convert the planets of this solar system in to some energy grid to tap into the sun they could do it. After all, we don't give a lot of concern for life that get wiped out in our developments of resources. Remember the opening of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If we meet Vogons, we're dead. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
