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I won't believe they are real aliens until they post in Hacker News. In reality how would we even know they are aliens? If you are an advanced race, you would
by coldcode 7y ago
I won't believe they are real aliens until they post in Hacker News.
In reality how would we even know they are aliens? If you are an advanced race, you would have the technology to either hide your presence or affect the human identification in some way. If you didn't care if humans saw you, why not show up in Times Square? Why would you only show up in the US and only in ways no one but the military or government can see?
Does not follow Occam's razor.
- zadler 7y agoMaybe they operate on a different time scale, fully intend to make contact but experience tells them that it’s better to take it slow. There could be any number of reasons.
- 52-6F-62 7y agoDoesn’t it? Have you seen Star Trek? The federation exploration missions usually seek to speak first with the leaders and minimize their involvement with civilizations that haven’t matured enough. Not that they don’t still screw it up sometimes. Too many variables for Occam’s razor to be applied to that question. They could be as fallible as an emotional being might be and yet generally with benign, exploratory and diplomatic intentions as the federation in Star Trek. They’re merely adhering to the “most powerful” government’s diplomatic requirements. You know, because they met the US first by chance. There could be a good story in there somewhere...
- usgroup 7y agoReal alien here; AMA.
- JulianMorrison 7y agoIt works if you assume (1) yeah they can hide, they are never seen by accident, (2) they are disclosing themselves, but intentionally taking it slow.