Ok think about this for a moment. Suppose you were a being of ,apparently, higher intellect, have mastered how to travel at the speed of light or similar and probably have made technological advancements that would amaze the human race. Now imagine your flying around the galaxy in your little ship and you come across earth, a once beautifull planet with a rapidly evolving race of beings on it all hell bent on extracting all sources of energy and generally destroying where they live. A race which over the course of its history war has been waged many times and there are still wars going on today............ would you stop to say hello?
Wow, you make it sound as of the natural evolution of civilization as they slowly depart from their animal ancestor, warring tribal ways is a bad thing. Hell yes I would stop and say hello, especially if they have managed spaceflight. My visit would make their wars suddenly seem much less important because they are no longer these lonely creatures fighting for whatever, they are now a single unit among many different intelligent species units.
Honestly, aside from the religious extremists and racists (turned speciesists) the idea of fighting amongst ourselves would seem pointless. Only those who would be offended by the presence of other intelligence would continue their violence. It would set humans on a path of, I would guess, 20-50 years of debate and acceptance to move past our own petty bickerings.
I think if it was an alien vessel then they are doing the right thing by
observing and not contacting us. I certainly wouldnt stop for a cup of tea especially when you think about what would probably happen if an alien suddenly decided to take a stoll around the high street, mass hysteria would be an understatement. Armys would probably get involved etc and what a pleasnt way to greet a new form of life..... the public throw stones and run screaming and the army put guns in there faces and try to capture them.
Spec....
I think that we would be too curious. The general population of western civilization is not some hate mongering radicals that would want them dead on sight. I do believe some military presence would show up, but it would be doing double duty in making sure no civilians did anything uncalled for, and to make sure these are peacful beings.
The last thing we want is to find out we are galactic Native Americans and they are galactic Europeans come to conquer. But we would want to make sure they aren't here to establish communications before we did anything hostile.
OFF TOPIC:// One thing that always keeped me wondering about that Rosswell incident '47 is, how come that since that time OUR aircrafts/jets have improved so much. We have jets reaching 3+ Mach.
Famine beat me to this one. But like he said, technology was advancing extremely fast before Roswell.
- and another thing that bothers me is, why would the US make such a huge story about something which wouldnt have happened?!?!
You mean Roswell? Well, before the Air Force could report on its findings it was a national story that an alien ship had crash landed, and the drama of the situation was not helped by the fact that science fiction movies were at their peak. I'm not saying it wasn't an alien ship, but I can easily see how it turned into what it has become if it wasn't. The same thing that always makes stuff get blown out of proprtion - media.
The first flight of a powered, manned aircraft (arguments aside) took place in 1903 at a speed of 6.8mph. 43 years later, before Roswell "happened", the Bell X-1, which subsequently broke the sound barrier and pushed on up to Mach 2.2, had its maiden flight.
So in 43 years, without alien-derived advancement, speed of flight had increase from 6.8mph to Mach 1 - a 113-fold improvement. Since then, despite alien-derived advancement, speed of flight has improved only 3-fold (SR-71A Blackbird - Mach 3.3 or greater) or 10-fold if you believe in Aurora. In 60 years.
Rate of advancement in speed has slowed since Roswell's supposed occurrence, as every boundary we push has another boundary closer by than before.
I think that you have understated our history of flight. No one cared about trying to go faster after we got to space. Chuck Yeager was forgotten in the desert while men were riding missiles into space.
I think things truly stagnated with the shuttle. That was when it became more about doing research and less about exploration. Looking at this I think that if we had some form of alien spacecraft we would have built new technology by now instead of letting ours get old and causing two missions to be destroyed by equipment failures.
You haven't seen my Penis
👍
