Re: SETI and The Fermi Paradox

On Aug 30, 2:02�pm, "HVAC" <harlowcampb...@gmail.com> wrote:


Metaphors about crashing waves notwithstanding, I ask again
for proof. Since nothing in our universe can travel faster than
light and you claim that aliens have visited earth, I ask where are
the X-ray emissions from a craft travelling a good percentage of C?

They should stand out like a beacon that says, 'Here We Are'


I do like a good metaphor with morning coffee and toasted spelling
checker. ;-)

Nowhere have I have said that aliens have visited Earth. Though I do
believe there is a class of flying object seen by reliable witnesses
which seems to exhibit characteristics beyond human capability either
in scale, behaviour or extreme feats of acceleration and directional
change. It is unfortunate that all such sightings must be filtered
through the garbled, universal translator of the "UFO expert" crowd.
Most of whom seem to be borderline nuts, completely insane or retarded
attention seekers. The governments of the world have no need for
counter measures against such rumours while these people are free to
espouse their "science". Boredom with mundane lifestyles has its
price.  It is little different from religion in its lack of
objectivity and shows poor selectivity regarding any possible evidence
and will drag any "road kill" into the story to reinforce its absurd
illusions.

Though I do fondly wish for an alien contact before I die. Not only
for its own curiosity's sake but in the vague hope that it will help
to destroy our badly broken human organisational systems. As a species
we need a very sharp kick up the backside to head us off in a new and
far more constructive direction. Pandemics seem too wasteful of our
time and our ultimate human potential. Our worn-out warmongering is
the absolute proof that we are crackers in following any leader, flag
or nation.

The need for superheroes and aliens is surely a sign that we
desperately wish for external intervention to undo the mess we are in.
Religion promised justice for all but none ever arrives as the
millennia grind on and on over it's countless victims. Give us one
alien and we'll be forced to build a new world order. Hopefully one
without religious, national or political loyalties. We are an
intelligent race! Not in a race to inevitable global destruction at
the hands of a few aggressive, self-seeking psychopaths. If we cannot
feed the world then we have failed the very first survival test as a
species. We should have no need of vast, sacrificial groups in a
global society of truly intelligent beings. Leave that to the ants we
so like to copy in our daily behaviour. We are really no better than
cavemen with TVs. Amusing ourselves, secondhand, with the detritus of
the kill and pretending the blood and guts are not real.