Whenever you hear talk about aliens, its always about them being so advanced, and so amazing.
Who's to say we arn't 10x as advanced as them?
Are humans just so slow intellectually compared to other "beings" out there?
And why are we always like, when are THEY gonna find us?
More like when are WE going to find them!
think about that!
2007-12-23 08:59:50 · 19 answers · asked by The Fluorescent Dalai Lama 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
i think there are aliens that are more advanced than us and those that are not. those that are not won't have spaceships that can fly to our solar system. so any alien that does come visit us has to be more advanced than us. there could also be some planet completely populated by worms and we will only discover them when we advance in technology.
2007-12-23 10:25:51 · answer #1 · answered by brandon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any aliens that could come to Earth at this point in time would have to be more advanced than us, because we don't have the technology to reach another star system at this time.
The assumption that the first aliens we meet will necessarily be very advanced is unwarranted, however. It's entirely possible that the first aliens we meet will be stone age primitives living on a planet of some nearby star. Indeed, the fact that Earth has never been visited to our knowledge suggests advanced civilizations are probably rather rare in the universe.
A lot of people, UFO cultists and the like, do tend to basically use aliens as a substitute for god, and this kind of thinking undoubtedly influences public perception of aliens. Humans seem to have an innate craving to believe in beings much greater, more powerful, and wiser than themselves, probably carried over from when we were children and needed such people (adults) to take care of us. I think people naturally like the idea that there's somebody out there who'se solved all the great questions (is there a god, what's the meaning of life etc.) and can just tell us if we asked. Realistically, I doubt it's true; even more advanced aliens are probably going to be blundering blindly in the dark for those answers, just as we are, they'll just have flashier toys.
2007-12-26 14:00:09 · answer #2 · answered by Somes J 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The short answer is that we don't know. So far we have not seen anything conclusive that shows that aliens to our planet even exist let alone their capabilities.
Also, interstellar transport is astronomical. It would take over a year to accelerate to the speed of light at the same acceleration as earths gravity. Also, it would take over a year to slow back down. If able to go near the speed of light, it would take many years to travel to find a planet with life, let alone intelligent life. If we did find intelligent life, would they be friendly or hostile? What happen if you hit a rock on your way when traveling faster than any bullet on earth? Also, the costs are astronomical too. Until we or some other intelligent alien finds a way to accomplish this, I guess that aliens will just be another folklore.
2007-12-23 09:30:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How would we know? Aliens have never been here. I happen to believe Einstein was right, and there is no such thing as faster than light travel. Yah, Yah, I know all about black holes and wormholes and folded space, but read up on it and you'll see how ridiculously impractical - in fact, likely impossible - intergalactic travel is.
I'm sure theey are out there, but I'm also sure they've never been here - think about it, they master some totally unheard of means of travel, one for which there isn't even the flimsiest evidence is even possible - come across thousands of light years to visit this humble planet, and all they want to do is cut up some cows and stomp some crops. Sounds more crazy than intelligent.
The whole thing is so patently absurd it nevers fails to amaze me how many lardheads are convinced that we've been visited by aliens. We haven't been. And I sincerely doubt we ever will be.
Nothing would make me happier than for it to actually have it happen. It's one case were I'd be delighted to be proven wrong. But I don't see any way it possibly could.
2007-12-23 09:30:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the billions of years that the Earth has existed, we humans have only had the capability to detect other civilisations for around a century. There is considerable uncertainty about how long we will retain that capability.
Think of a hypothetical planet in another solar system. It is most unlikely that it formed at the same time as the Earth, and it is most unlikely that evolution of life and society progressed at the same rate there. Hence it is tremendously unlikely that beings on this hypothetical planet would be at the same level of development as us.
If they are lagging behind us we won't be able to detect them. If they are more advanced than us, it is highly probably they will be far more advanced than us, as a million years is only a small time span on the cosmic time scale and there could easily be that much difference in our technlogy due to the difference in formation time of the hypothetical planet and Earth, and difference in rates of development of lifeforms there compared with here.
Hence, other civilisations that we detect or contact, will almost certainly be far more advanced than us, supposing that they exist.
You might also like to ask why, if they are so far ahead of us, they would be interested in us at all. Is it not reasonable to expect that if other civilisations are common, then a spacefaring civilisation would have already made contact with many, many others and would simply class ours as just another low level emergent culture and move on to something more advanced?
2007-12-23 12:03:33 · answer #5 · answered by Quadrillian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that's due the influences the mass media telling on how inferior the human species is.
Personally, human cultures are probably be much superior than aliens'. Aliens probably will go gaga over human culture, wanting to taste human food, listen to human music, marvel over human beauties, and so on.
If humans ever go to meet aliens, I suggest attaching a bunch of loundspeakers and a giant display to the crafts.
2007-12-23 11:16:26 · answer #6 · answered by E A C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is far more likely that there are more primitive "aliens" out there than advanced ones. And maybe the really primitive ones (like some sort of bacteria) could actually find their way to earth without intending to. They might hitch a ride on some meteorite that was ejected from some inhabited world.
We might all be descendants of primitive Martians.
2007-12-23 09:42:27 · answer #7 · answered by Steve H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually nothing says they are far more advanced than us, if and I mean if they do exist and they have visited here then they definatly are far more advanced than we are because we have not even been to mars, If they travel among the stars then they are probly a million more years advanced than the human race, and this of course depends on if they (aliens and ufos ) do exist we have yet to see one, at this point it can not be proven one way or the other, there will always be ones who say they are a figment of imagination and on the other hand there will always be those who swear they are real, so its all in the eyes of the believer or nonbeliever,
as for me, I hold no opinion at this point,
2007-12-23 09:34:23 · answer #8 · answered by SPACEGUY 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If we are 10 times more advanced than "aliens" (which I don't believe exist since there is no proof), and we haven't even set foot on our nearest planetary neighbour, then how do all these UFOs get here?
Wouldn't they have to be as at least as intelligent (or more so) than us to travel from another planet or another star system?
And its not always "when are they going to find us" - that's only half the story. Humans have been searching (passively, to be sure) for alien intelligence for decades.
2007-12-23 09:09:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yeah well i think aliens have some things we couldn't ever invent and we have some things aliens couldn't invent and aliens are already watching us they have been for a long time we could find them and we have but we dont' want to talk because most people are afraid of aliens because that is how we potray them in moview as bad and wanting to take over the world and just kill humans
2007-12-23 10:01:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋