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SuperFrog
As result of all of this, I have more and more feeling that aliens would see us equal (if not worst) to what I currently view talibans. We are acting as talibans with all those wars among ourselves, tests of nuclear weapons, inequality we live in, our destruction of only planet we have even in most advanced countries.
But, for now, we are just space talibans
"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and
bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo
clock."
SuperFrog
It is actually very simple - civilization capable of star traveling has to survive, and we are more and more leading toward not surviving path... just look at today's politics, look at how many people die daily in all wars, many of them might be prevented.... that is not attributing them angelic qualities, just simple logical thinking.
SuperFrog
Even if they have their own problems, what makes you think that they would like to 'add to problems' - humans from earth that are working at high rate on destroying their own planet?
SuperFrog
Let's say that Stephen Hawking is right, and aliens are equally bad as we are, or as someone mentioned, they have corporations that lead their space program, by now we would in that case know about them, wouldn't we?
Soylent Green Is People
reply to post by PhoenixOD
I even wonder about the "advanced intelligence" part.
Surely they may have greater knowledge, but that necessarily does not mean greater intelligence. For example, we have more knowledge today than we had 2000 years ago, but we have virtually the exact same intelligence (as a species) today that we had 2000 years ago...
...And 2000 years from now, the human species may still not have a greater intelligence than we have now, but we may have additional knowledge that allows us to have interstellar travel. We may be space-faring in 2000 years, but we would be the same species with virtually the same intelligence as today.
That's because knowledge is not the same as intelligence.
edit on 3/3/2014 by Soylent Green Is People because: (no reason given)
Krazysh0t
So how do you know that inequality, war, greed, and hatred don't plague other civilizations? How do you know that the aliens that may or may not be visiting us aren't just some intergalactic corporation looking to exploit other life for what they consider currency? Why do we always assume that beings that can bridge the gap odf intergalactic travel are always a united species? Besides colony insects like ants and bees what life on this planet is united in benefit with each other? Even colony insects war against other colony insects.
JadeStar
Wars are over resources.
If you can travel the stars you have access to resources beyond what most people could imagine.
Therefore, no need for waring over resources.
JadeStar
Krazysh0t
So how do you know that inequality, war, greed, and hatred don't plague other civilizations? How do you know that the aliens that may or may not be visiting us aren't just some intergalactic corporation looking to exploit other life for what they consider currency? Why do we always assume that beings that can bridge the gap odf intergalactic travel are always a united species? Besides colony insects like ants and bees what life on this planet is united in benefit with each other? Even colony insects war against other colony insects.
Wars are over resources.
If you can travel the stars you have access to resources beyond what most people could imagine.
Therefore, no need for waring over resources.