Apr 17 2008
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UFOs: Why No Open Contact?
That’s the question asked by one of the best UFO-related bloggers around: Mac Tonnies.
As Mac says:
“Assuming that UFOs represent extraterrestrial visitors (whether humanoid aliens in spacecraft or something stranger), there’s no denying the secretive way in which the phenomenon has unfolded since the dawn of the ‘modern’ UFO era in 1947. Strident debunkers have seized on the ‘ufonauts'’ seeming desire to remain unseen as evidence that they don’t exist — and maintain that studying evidence that might suggest the contrary can only be a waste of resources. Although I think the debunking argument is steeped in anthropocentric baggage, it’s a fair enough question, at least in principle: Why would aliens go to the trouble of crossing interstellar distances if they possessed no interest in revealing themselves?”
Here’s the rest of Mac’s thoughts on the matter.
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April 17th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
A valid question.
I can think of a couple of possible answers.
1) Bloody tourists. (A possible explanation for lots of supposed alien behavior.) In this case, they want to see exotic locales but don’t care to interact much with the wildlife.
2) When entomologists travel to the rain forests of Brazil, how much time to they spend talking to the bugs?
April 17th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
If the ETs are trying to avoid contact, they have failed. If the ETs are trying to make contact, they have failed. If the ETs are studying us, they have failed because they have contaminated our culture. If the ETs are preparing us for future contact, they have failed because the only people that take the ETs seriously are also the laughing stock of the world. If the ETs are harvesting us like cattle, they are incompetent (why take egg and sperm when a simple swab of saliva from the mouth will provide all the DNA they would ever need?). If the ETs are here for purposes that have little or nothing to do with us, they have succeeded because it is as if ETs have never existed…now imagine that!
April 18th, 2008 at 7:27 am
There is that quote from the Herbert Schirmer case… “We want you to believe in us, but not too much”
April 18th, 2008 at 9:29 am
In The Sage’s reply, there is a germ of
a valid notion: The ‘aliens’ simply may
be/have been indifferent to contact, or
at least to prolonged contact. There is
even a cultural paralell in human
history: The explorations of Chinese
Admiral Zheng He in the early Fifteenth
century. The comparison is by no means
exact, but there you are. For a quarter
century a vast fleet of ships explored
as far as Madagascar to the west, and
extensively in the eastern Pacific.
They then went home, and stayed there,
as China withdrew from further
exploration.