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i don't think a parallel to this mans situation can go very far. we aren't reluctant to make contact with aliens the way he is reluctant to contact us. we woul
by exit 16y ago
i don't think a parallel to this mans situation can go very far.
we aren't reluctant to make contact with aliens the way he is reluctant to contact us. we wouldn't appreciate being "preserved" the way indigenous tribes would prefer to perpetuate their traditions.
assuming aliens capable of contacting are us out there, i think the likeliest explanation for the fermi paradox is complete disinterest. their relation to us is more like our relation to inanimate matter than our relation to this fellow human.
- joe_the_user 16y agoMaybe... But it's also possible that we simply could not conceive of the kind of transformation which the alien contact would bring about. Lots of native tribes were actually eager to contact European explorers but had no idea that it would lead to the more or less complete destruction of their culture. There might be an analogy in contact with aliens but an analogy which are simply incapable of even understanding, despite belief that we are the most advanced thing around.
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- DanielBMarkham 16y agoIt's also possible that we were not alive and/or could not have understood the "howdy" when it occurred. We are but a primitive species. To think that somehow in the last 1000 years or so somebody must have made contact in a way we could understand -- or there is nobody -- is really pretty arrogant.
- palish 16y agoHow about accepting the apparent fact that we are completely alone, instead of trying to satiate our immense egos with fantasies about why someone else would possibly want to ignore something so important as the human race?
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoWhy would my ego be satiated by possible beings who have no interest in me?
- WildUtah 16y agoWhy would my ego be satiated by possible beings who have no interest in me? I mean, it sure doesn't work with girls.