SETI public: Re: Why would extraterrestrials come here for a visit?

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Well, if I want to focus on disturbing future future possibilities, all that
I have to do is turn on the television to feel disturbed. So why not try to
idealize and visualize some more fantasy-feeding possibilities instead? What
exactly would someone's dream-come-true of alien contact consist of, rather
than these nightmare scenarios?

----- Original Message -----
From: "LARRY KLAES" <ljk4_at_msn.com>
To: <public_at_setileague.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:41 PM
Subject: RE: SETI public: Re: Why would extraterrestrials come here for a
visit?

> Define "help". What if helping humanity to survive required radical
> changes to our lifestyles and even ourselves? Would people willingly
> put up for this? And what if they made us do it for our own good?
> Can you say rebellion?
>
> Check out the 1970 film The Forbin Project, about an Artificial
> Intelligence
> named Colossus that was designed to prevent nuclear war. Its response
> to this order was not what people expected and they did not react with
> joy - but by then it was too late to do anything about it.
>
> I am not saying it wouldn't be potentially wonderful if an ETI gave us
> certain knowledge and technology that improved our lives and increased
> our understanding, but I wonder how a missionary visit would be received
> and what it might do to us?
>
> If we don't evolve to expand into the galaxy and change to adapt and
> evolve to survive our dying Sun and some day dying Cosmos, someone
> else might and they may want to make some very radical changes to the
> structure of space. Will we be in the way when that happens?
>
> Larry
>
>
>>From: "bruciem" <bruciem_at_ca.inter.net>
>>To: <public_at_setileague.org>
>>Subject: SETI public: Re: Why would extraterrestrials come here for a
>>visit?
>>Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:30:23 -0500
>>
>>This article left out compassion as a motive to visit us, didn't it?
>>Coming here because our planet needs help. We might have to be the ones to
>>help ourselves, though, to make our planet a better place, so that
>>visiting us can be more of a fantasy-fulfilling experience for any
>>extraterrestrial wayfarers.
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "LARRY KLAES" <ljk4_at_msn.com>
>>To: <public_at_setileague.org>
>>Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:59 PM
>>Subject: SETI public: Why would extraterrestrials come here for a visit?
>>
>>
>>>Alien Sociology
>>>
>>>Why would extraterrestrials come here for a visit?
>>>
>>>http://www.space.com/searchforlife/080327-seti-alien-sociology.html
>>>
>>
>
>

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