Just imagine, if they come looking for life, and the earth has just been killed by us, and we're gone too. How tragic...they will never know that life flourished here, how we loved, and died. That we wrote books, and built monuments. That we looked up at the stars, and wondered and waited. That we laughed in joy, and cried in pain.
They would never know that they had siblings here. Just imagine if, while passing by, they say, "Nothing here either. Let's go". They would never see our magnificent literature, our stupendous achievements. And they had come looking only for basic life forms. What a shock they would have got if they had found us! Alas, the pain is too deep to express.
2006-12-08 15:25:10 · 15 answers · asked by Bhagwad 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There is an old si-fi story called 43,000 years later that explores this very thing.
Another thought:
"When you with silvered foot shall pass among the guest star-scattered on the grass reach the spot where I made one, turn down an empty glass" Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
2006-12-08 15:27:34 · answer #1 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would've to trace back the civilizations our great-great-great-great-great... uhf...great ancestors has built previously,or they would go to left this planet alone either,I'd guess,instead they would stays,at least some of them, and would start to trace-back the history of the Earth and her peoples that used to life here and the would recreates their own kives based upon their heritage they had in mined which derives from their passed live on their planet or clusters,should they are counted for existence,or at least could be traced-on as being an absorptions there--upon. Not necesarily a direct decendent otherwise either,tho'
2006-12-08 15:37:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey have you read that they actually think that there was at one point in time, flowing water on Mars (especially around the equator.. It was on Yahoo! News a couple of days ago...)
Anyway, could you imagine if at one point there was actually life on Mars (which is what NASA is trying to determine) and all of the life was wiped out, and now we're trying to figure out the exact same thing that you're talking about Aliens trying to figure out for Earth...
Creepy.
2006-12-08 15:29:11 · answer #3 · answered by flycreature 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering from the time of the Olympic Games prior to ww2 we have been broadcasting all kinds of things and sending it out into the universe they would have known long before they got to earth.... In fact if I were an alien and saw some of our transmissions I would decide it was not somewhere I would want to visit.
2006-12-08 21:37:32 · answer #4 · answered by Proud to be APBT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we can detect, water and life in rocks and planets, then I am sure other life forms can too.
We also have sent out Radio waves into space, talking about life on Earth.
Hitler was one of the first people to do this, believe it or not.
2006-12-08 15:29:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Considering how much SETI has found so far (even with my own PC's help) I have a feeling that by the time any aliens come this way the sun will have swelled and destroyed the earth.
2006-12-08 15:30:09 · answer #6 · answered by John's Secret Identity™ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
> there is been loads of talk on the internet approximately extraterrestrial beings from the palent "Gootan" First time I even have heard approximately that! ought to you grant an certainly link? ought to you in addition to can supply a well-liked call of somebody who's conversing approximately it? i believe it relatively is finished nonsense. so which you will stay away out of your female pal.
2016-10-14 07:49:38 · answer #7 · answered by dickirson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we certainly seem intent on the end of destroying our planet too, eh.
but the cosmos is far too large for this mote to be discerned by aliens, and yes there may well be life out their far advanced, but the odds of them finding us or our burnt out planet after we destroy it are incredibly slim, so cease with the sorrow already.
2006-12-08 16:08:37 · answer #8 · answered by captsnuf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you a guy? You know, you sound like a really attractive man.
I can't describe why, but if a guy discussed things like that in earshot of me, I would melt.
Seriously, this is not sarcasm.
Mmmm.... so cute. Keep it up, and you'll have women all over you... or at least me.
2006-12-08 15:29:48 · answer #9 · answered by Lisa M 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we would become a short chapter in their universe history book.
2006-12-08 15:34:12 · answer #10 · answered by Jeremy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋