29 Jun 2023 8:44 am
I get what you're saying. But, I don't necessarily believe that technological advancement leads to being able to break the laws of physics.Jantje_Smit » 29 Jun 2023, 7:55 am » wrote: ↑ The thing about aliens is that they are.. alien.. you can't ascribe human motivations to them, they don't think that way...
And who says they couldn't avoid detection if they didn't want to be seen, they can get here, we can't get there so by definition they will be more advanced than us, if their technology is hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us who knows what they can do... with our technology the energy would be a problem, for them it could be easy..
Also, allow me to indulge in a reverse-scenario thought experiment for a moment:
- When we sent men to explore the moon, we didn't give one thought to being covert or stealthy about it. When we sent robotic rovers to Mars, again, we didn't give one thought to hiding our presence there. We've sent satellites to several moons in our solar system that could potentially have live on them, and we've done nothing to conceal this from any potential inhabitants.
- Furthermore, when we sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 flying out of our solar system, we placed things on it to make sure that an alien civilization would know that there is sentient life on Earth - nothing stealthy about that at all.
- If we had the physical ability to go visit Proxima B, do you think we would take measures to NOT engage with any intelligent alien civilization we find on that planet? Heck no! We'd be louder than cage full of chimps at feeding time. The fact that some individuals on the planet might have to change their beliefs due to our arrival wouldn't concern us in the least. We'd go in there with Chinese made trinkets for the leaders and sugary-sweet platitudes for the inhabitants.
- It just doesn't make sense that an Alien civilization would be so concerned about how our Churches and Stock Markets would be affected by their arrival to just say "Hi".