Is the surest sign that there is intelligent life forms out there in the universe, the fact they haven’t tried to contact us? We live on a planet where common sense is so rare it should be classified as a superpower.
Yet we strut around this shrinking globe of ours, believing that if awesome was a crime our species would be facing a prison sentence, negotiating with the idea that we are so important aliens are going to invade on December 22nd 2012, and take over our planet.
It might happen. But would a species so advanced that it could build an invisible space station/observatory on the moon (people believe this, I’m not making it up) really be that enthralled with observing a race of heavily armed monkeys get excited about making phone calls?
We aren’t advanced. We need to stop fooling ourselves. Any race that spends billions upon billions of pounds (while millions starve) on discovering new ways to wipe itself out with weapons of mass destruction (they do exist, America and the UK has most of them) would not attract a higher species to it.
It’s like when you go on holiday, book into a hotel and the friendly receptionist tells you about the places you should avoid. Earth would be like the Ghetto’s of the Galaxy – nice place, lovely views, just a shame about some of the locals.
Some believe aliens are here, now, ruling our planet disguised as our leaders. It might be true, but why would they disguise themselves? Hitler didn’t disguise his armies when he invaded Poland. Why should invading Earth be any different?
I don’t want to come across as cynical. I have an extremely open mind. But I also am a realist, and truly believe that any alien that ends up here is either lost or being punished. Can you imagine coming from a higher civilisation that has evolved above the need for money as trade, or violence as solution, only to end up here?
I enjoy the conspiracy route as much as any other, but humans have a problem with projection. We made a God in our image, and it got us nowhere. Is basing alien behaviour around the worst aspects of our own likely to get us any further? Especially as the word alien signifies that something is different. Aliens would have to deplore war, violence, greed, hatred and bloodshed for profit. Otherwise they would not be alien at all.
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