Comments on: Where are the aliens? http://www.spacetimestories.com/fermi-paradox/where-are-the-aliens/ Space and Time Travel Stories. A Science Fiction Blog By Sean O'Brien Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:25:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Colum Paget http://www.spacetimestories.com/fermi-paradox/where-are-the-aliens/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Colum Paget Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:17:09 +0000 http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=456#comment-280 Where are the intelligent space-faring earth people? To any aliens out there, we don't exist. Voyager is going to be lost forever in the inky black, a message in a bottle drifting eternally through nothingness. How would anyone ever find it? Will we send anything else? I'm not sure. It's 2010 already, I'm supposed to have a robot housemaid and be taking holidays on the moon. Instead we have the internet. Big fat hairy deal. The futures we were promised by SF in the past never happened (except maybe the bad ones) and likely they never will. And, you know, do we really *want* to meet the aliens? Looking at our own history, what has the experience been like of meeting a more advanced civilisation? (And if they manage to come here, or their robotic probes do, then they must be much more advanced, because we can't get to them right now). If they come here, why have they come here? What have they come for? What do they hope to get? I have long believed that we should keep the noise down on earth, just in case there are aliens. After all, if they pick up our transmissions they'll be saying "Look Q-zark, another hopelessly primitive world using radio! Ha ha! And look how blue and bountiful their world is! And what a mess they are making of it! My, we could make better use of it than them. Prepare the invasion fleet!" Colum Where are the intelligent space-faring earth people? To any aliens out there, we don’t exist. Voyager is going to be lost forever in the inky black, a message in a bottle drifting eternally through nothingness. How would anyone ever find it?
Will we send anything else? I’m not sure. It’s 2010 already, I’m supposed to have a robot housemaid and be taking holidays on the moon. Instead we have the internet. Big fat hairy deal. The futures we were promised by SF in the past never happened (except maybe the bad ones) and likely they never will.

And, you know, do we really *want* to meet the aliens? Looking at our own history, what has the experience been like of meeting a more advanced civilisation? (And if they manage to come here, or their robotic probes do, then they must be much more advanced, because we can’t get to them right now). If they come here, why have they come here? What have they come for? What do they hope to get?

I have long believed that we should keep the noise down on earth, just in case there are aliens. After all, if they pick up our transmissions they’ll be saying “Look Q-zark, another hopelessly primitive world using radio! Ha ha! And look how blue and bountiful their world is! And what a mess they are making of it! My, we could make better use of it than them. Prepare the invasion fleet!”

Colum

]]> By: Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/fermi-paradox/where-are-the-aliens/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Sean Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:09:19 +0000 http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=456#comment-263 Great comment. Thanks for the support. Great comment. Thanks for the support.

]]> By: Galex http://www.spacetimestories.com/fermi-paradox/where-are-the-aliens/comment-page-1/#comment-262 Galex Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:09:50 +0000 http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=456#comment-262 Aliens landed here in the late 80s, were freaked out by the TV series ALF and have now zoomed off into the cosmos. They will return in 1,000 years, hoping we'll have forgotten all the secrets of that show by then. Aliens landed here in the late 80s, were freaked out by the TV series ALF and have now zoomed off into the cosmos. They will return in 1,000 years, hoping we’ll have forgotten all the secrets of that show by then.

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