SASQUATCH
10-06-2007, 11:33 AM
The fact is, and this should have been obvious to all, that we do not know what any extraterrestrials might be like - and hoping that they might be friendly, evolved enough to be wise and beyond violence, is an assumption upon which we could be betting our entire existence.
The late Carl Sagan, the American astronomer who died a decade ago, also worried about so-called "First Contact". He recommended that we, the newest children in a strange and uncertain cosmos, should listen quietly for a long time, patiently learning about the universe and comparing notes. He said there is no chance that two galactic civilizations will interact at the same level. In any confrontation, one will always dominate the other.
It's likely that any creature we contact will also have had to claw its way up its own evolutionary ladder and may possibly be every bit as nasty as we are - or worse.
I felt like getting into something different but please stay with the subject and keep an open mind and not judge anyone’s believes. Thank you
What are your thoughts?
The late Carl Sagan, the American astronomer who died a decade ago, also worried about so-called "First Contact". He recommended that we, the newest children in a strange and uncertain cosmos, should listen quietly for a long time, patiently learning about the universe and comparing notes. He said there is no chance that two galactic civilizations will interact at the same level. In any confrontation, one will always dominate the other.
It's likely that any creature we contact will also have had to claw its way up its own evolutionary ladder and may possibly be every bit as nasty as we are - or worse.
I felt like getting into something different but please stay with the subject and keep an open mind and not judge anyone’s believes. Thank you
What are your thoughts?