UFO's... What do you think?

[cqaigy2]

Only if they come here wearing masks. Otherwise, we’ll belittle them and they will leave.

MoKelly

Actually would probably be just the opposite. They'd wear gear to make sure they didn't infect us, we'd belittle them for thinking of others.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I’m thinking any aliens are so unlike us that we cannot comprehend.

They probably don’t have 2 arms and legs.

They don’t breathe like we breathe.

They don’t eat like we eat.

They don’t need our minerals.

They don’t care about us.

MoKelly

I tend to think they would be more like us than not...and here's why. Convergent evolution; specifically, a big brained, thinking rational being that has survived and evolved by it's adaptability, namely it's ability to make the environment fit it. For instance, in order to make tools, you need a brain that can recognize you need one, and an extremely dexterous appendage, like a human hand, to fashion it. We are the only being on this earth with the attributes needed. I would suspect an alien to have two arms with hands not unlike ours.

Would Aliens Look Like Us?

Though natural selection might have sculpted a well-adapted species on another planet, they wouldn't look like us, says guest blogger Jonathan Losos.

www.npr.org

 

[2LaneCruzer]

So... we should assume an Alien life form, more intelligent than us, would treat humans better than say, Europeans treated the American Indians; the Spanish treated the Inca's or the Aztec's; or the British the Aboriginal's in Australia?

There's no way to know. If the stories of aliens are true, they seem to be neither hostile, nor extreme benevolent. I admittedly assumed that a society more highly developed than ours would be more paternalistic than hostile...but no guarantee.

 

[ruffdog]

My wife wants to meet a Ballchinian:

Ballchinian

 

[MoKelly]

My wife wants to meet a Ballchinian:

Ballchinian

Yikes. I do not want to meet that guy!

MoKelly

 

[Diggin It]

I've been kind of annoyed at the probes and beacons we've been sending out advertising our presence. It seems like a potentially dangerous thing to do.

 

[Jstpssng]

I've been kind of annoyed at the probes and beacons we've been sending out advertising our presence. It seems like a potentially dangerous thing to do.

We are who we are, for better or worse. There's no sense hiding under a bush.

 

[/pine]

Unless in some far off part of the universe where every solar system and its planets and moons etc. support life...I would think that other possible intelligent life forms would find it (life) as rare and be as interested in us as we would be in them...
From the onset of humanity we know hostility because of the cultural differences between the races etc...it possible there are intelligent life forms that thrive in a place that never knew hostility...we tend to assume all would be like us...

 

[bcp]

If the continents hadn't drifted apart, mankind might have evolved to be all be the same race/language/culture.

Bruce

 

[scaredychicken]

Nope, don't believe it.

 

[PuffyC]

If the continents hadn't drifted apart, mankind might have evolved to be all be the same race/language/culture.

Bruce

If we survive long enough that's where we'll eventually end up. One race, one culture, one language, etc. Until then we'll keep killing people because their culture is different or they believe in different supernatural beings than we do.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

If we survive long enough that's where we'll eventually end up. One race, one culture, one language, etc. Until then we'll keep killing people because their culture is different or they believe in different supernatural beings than we do.

I really doubt that will happen. As a species we will probably, through being drawn closer by modern transportation and communication, become closer and more familiar, but I don't think it will ever overcome the tribal mentality. People tend to take pride in their differences and their cultures and their beliefs, and look down upon those who are different.

 

[Jstpssng]

If we survive long enough that's where we'll eventually end up. One race, one culture, one language, etc. Until then we'll keep killing people because their culture is different or they believe in different supernatural beings than we do.

If we survive long enough the continents may drift so far as to connect again on the other side.
Not in my lifetime though, just as I never will see the one race/culture/language.
OTOH it was tried almost a century ago, by some loser named ******.

 

[sd455dan]

Well the report to Congress should be released within the next month about UAPs
also 60 minutes had a look into UFO subject speaking with some military pilots on Sunday night.

Navy pilots describe encounters with UFOs

Bill Whitaker reports on the regular sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, that have spurred a report due to Congress next month.

www.cbsnews.com

Looking forward to what is disclosed in the upcoming report

 

[/pine]

If the continents hadn't drifted apart, mankind might have evolved to be all be the same race/language/culture.

Bruce

Not really...family , faith and food are what define a culture...food is the only one of the three that is relative to geological location...

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Not really...family , faith and food are what define a culture...food is the only one of the three that is relative to geological location...

It's a bit more complicated than that; not even Anthropologists can always agree on what it is...in fact, there is a complete body of study known as "Cultural Anthropology". Here's an example of one definition:

Culture…is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society (Tylor 1920 [1871]: 1)

But I agree...there are probably no circumstances under which we would all have been one race and one culture, unless you would limit our population to a few thousand people living in one spot.

 

[/pine]

It's a bit more complicated than that; not even Anthropologists can always agree on what it is...in fact, there is a complete body of study known as "Cultural Anthropology". Here's an example of one definition:

Culture…is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society (Tylor 1920 [1871]: 1)

But I agree...there are probably no circumstances under which we would all have been one race and one culture, unless you would limit our population to a few thousand people living in one spot.

But what you refer to is a fully developed and seasoned culture...I was merely pointing out the basic fundamentals that are the seed of a culture...you can take everything else away but with just those three culture will evolve...

 

[Steppenwolfe]

It's a bit more complicated than that; not even Anthropologists can always agree on what it is...in fact, there is a complete body of study known as "Cultural Anthropology". Here's an example of one definition:

Culture…is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society (Tylor 1920 [1871]: 1)

And yet... we in America will separate ourselves from each of those things we once agreed upon, that made us that unique Nation, to fight each other over politics...

 

[Alan W.]

Lets get to the questions we all want to know.
Where is their vital area and how much would a good shoulder mount cost.

 

[5030]

So long as one don't land in my back 40, I'm all good.