Trick wrote:RobP3 wrote: What if they offer us advanced technology such as free energy?
Our rulers wouldn't like that, find those aliens quick enslave them or eliminate them
Sure. Think it through, knowing what we know. For ex., if ets came, and it was possible for us to communicate with them, who would we delegate to talk to them? What if they could only communicate with people who spoke some obscure language in the "third world"? What if they had advanced materials or technology, and suppose they wanted to share, but they didn't have enough? Who would we allow to have it? Would we take it? Suppose we had something they wanted, but it was only in Djibouti or Ireland?
Well, imo, an intelligent life form with extraterrestrial capabilities would take a long hard look at any other life forms they discovered. They'd be the ones deciding who they'd contact and when. If they've taken people and anal-probed them, it means they're smart enough to maintain a safe distance. We know that whatever advanced technology they'd have would not be shared by humans --at least at this point in our history. The only positive result of meeting extraterrestrials would be the emergence of a sense of our being "terrestrials" as opposed to "nationals."
Meh, I'm more a "Day the Earth Stood Still" than a "War of the Worlds" kind of guy. The Keanu version sucked except for when he said "
Yourplanet?" to the president.
"A man is rich when he has time and freewill. How he chooses to invest both will determine the return on his investment."