Canary wrote:Boys, I could bang yer heads together.
If the aliens are of higher intelligence, they're already here! Maybe they've always been here!
Why would they dutifully inform us that they dwell amongst us? ...... they don't need our permission or acknowledgement or validation.
They're quite content to simply sit back and observe us like we're goldfish in a bowl.
Could well be that they are right alongside us 24/7, in a parallel universe invisible to our eyes.
I was talking about the simple Hollywood 'Grey' Area 51 - style aliens MB was referring to Canny.
In reality any beings who were able to cross the Universe would be millions/billions of years ahead of us and would essentially be Gods, totally beyond our understanding , utterly unknowable and out of reach.
Think of them as the Firstborn in the novel 2001.
To communicate down to our level they would have to use an intermediary (again like the Firstborn who used the both the Monolith and then Bowman/Starchild in 2001 and it's sequels).
After all we are essentially still just a savage, violent Pleistocene ape who has just left the trees.
For example - are the bacteria aware we are studying them through a microscope?
Homo sapiens would be the bacteria in such a scenario.
No - and we could never know that either unless an advanced alien race chose to let us (if we could even comprehend what their messages were meant to convey).
Oh and if they actually existed and wanted to exterminate us for the good of the Cosmos and the rest of the planet we would never know about that either - Humanity would simply cease to exist.
