Setee - couch potato thinking?

[paigetheoracle]

I'm not surprised that SETI never found anything and was cancelled as a lot of assumptions were made about the project, even before it started but at least it was a gallant try.

 

You've got to have the right equipment for the job - there's no point looking for stars, through a microscope for instance. An advanced civilization probably won't still be using radio waves if they are even only a few hundred years ahead of us (look at our history and what has been picked up and dropped within the space of 200 years or so, since the industrial revolution).

 

What if aliens exist outside the visible spectrum? What if they communicate using ultra sonic sound, that only a dog can hear? What if they exist only as energy? What if they are out of synch with our time continuum, moving too fast to be perceived by us? What if they are hypersensitive and our sensory output (noise) overwhelms them, leading them to avoid direct contact with us, except in rare cases and then only on their terms not ours? (Think of adults and teenagers 'Turn that bloody row down, now!' and them as an older race than ours probably).

 

And this is only the tip of the reasonable iceberg. What if they are so different from us mentally or in lifestyle, that we couldn't cope with or even understand them? Think of us and how we reacted to primitive tribes, when 'conquering' the world or even other 'different' civilizations. Would their prejudices find us as revolting as we have found others on this planet?:naughty:Would they want to impose their beliefs on us if they did indeed land, wanting to 'rescue' us from our barbarism as we've done to other groups on this world or would they find us so disgusting that they wouldn't to mix with us, only at the level of 'needs must', keeping clear of us the rest of the time? (Scientific tests to 'try' to make sense of our civilization or taking whatever genetic material they needed, to discover what made our organisms 'tick'). Perhaps we would be so alien to them, that they would skedaddle at the first sign of any interest in them by us or sign of hostility?:eek2:

 

The trouble is that too many armchair critics never try to even 'theoretically' put themselves in the other proposed beings place. They dismiss all possibilities because they do not follow their prejudices of how they think the universe should be or is, according to their morality or limited knowledge. They even ignore history and what it tells us about how we have treated others and what we have discovered about the world, over time, dropping one belief system for another as a fashion/ passion (addiction) statement. 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars but in us', that we fail to make sense of the world because we look 'Through a glass, darkly' and fail to see things as they truly are or could be (Our prejudiced blind us to possibility and maybe even reality that exists outside our conscious bounds).:)