Comments on: 21 Reasons We Have Not Talked To Or Found Alien Civilizations

By: Chris Dann

Chris Dann — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:25:29 +0000

some very good points, thanks.

By: Garth of Izzar

Garth of Izzar — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:04:46 +0000

Well, let me put my two cents worth in. I enjoy reading most of the posts. I enjoy some of the humor, but sometimes it becomes too infantile. I believe there are other civilizations “out there”. I find it kind of simple that we resort to our human understanding of the universe. We make statements, for example, that they are so far away and because light speed is an unbreakable barrier that it is iimpossible for them to reach us. How do we KNOW our knowledge of physics is the end all? Suppose there are civilizations that are so undifferent from us that we just aren’t interesting to them. We are like ants trying to explain the nature of a mountain and thinking our view of the universe is pat science. We believe life is defined by a carbon-based matrix that needs water, sunlight, and other variables to exsist. WHY? Because our ant-like perspective of the universe tells us it MUST be so? Suppose there are silicon-based life forms, Chrysaline-life forms, and other inumerable forms of life that are totally inconpreshensible? I find it ludicrous that on one hand there are those in the scientific community that WANT to believe there are other civilizations and forms of life in the universe, BUT they must exist on our own parameters. Our biggest problem is that we too readily HUMANIZE the aliens in our discussions. We are finite beings trying to convince an INFINITE universe that life can our should exist on our menial terms. I believe in the premise that we just aren’t interesting enough for contact. Oh we have lofty ideas about what a first contact would be like, but alas our immaturity would show. If someone would decide to visit us it would not be beneficial because they would shatter our arrogance, science, and philosophy. They would be so far advanced in every imaginable and unimaginable manner that we would have a very difficult time accepting that. It could in my opinion result in a culture shock that would paralyze humanity. So why have we not been visited by intelligent aliens? The simple answer is……THEY ARE INTELLIGENT, that’s why. Somwhere outside the confines of our solar system is a cloaked beacon that was placed there warning curious civilizations to leave the pretty blue marble located third astrogation unit out from Sol alone. We are not ready and will not be for quite some time. One last thought. We would not like it very much to discover we are nothing more than an insignicant “virus” to a galactic civilization………NUFF SAID!

By: Chris Dann

Chris Dann — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:31:25 +0000

Must have been a bong from Bing.

By: hornsea

hornsea — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:28:59 +0000

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By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 21 May 2011 00:05:11 +0000

I think its an exciting time to be an astronomer or scientist:)we r gaining new insights almost daily and i think that it is only a matter of time before we come to realize the “truth” of what existence is:)i think its entirely possible that many of the reasons listed above r true:)i really believe that other civilizations r in fact “watching”us:)but to that end i think that we r no more than an interesting tv program:)lol we r fun and entertaining to watch but thats about it:)maybe in the future when we become a type 1 or 2 civilization they will be interested in communicating with us:)we can only hope that our species will survive that long:)

By: Chris Dann

Chris Dann — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:42:14 +0000

You wouldn’t happen to be a lazy programmer would you?

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:30:02 +0000

sadly i think number 18 is the only rational reason..

By: Sci-Fi Gene

Sci-Fi Gene — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:46:57 +0000

23. There could be plenty of “intelligence” out there but not so many human-like civilizations – humanity might be just a niche speciality that evolved to take advantage of some very specific conditions rather than the high point of all evolution, and under different conditions intelligent species might arise that don’t have the same interests in colonizing the Universe or making TV programmes.

By: Bruceleeeowe

Bruceleeeowe — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:12:41 +0000

We can’t take a look at moon case till we reach to the moon once again. There are already too many theories about moon landing. Nasa has released new high quality video perhaps a hollywood video.

By: C-h-r-i-s

C-h-r-i-s — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:34:45 +0000

First of all, space travel isn’t on the top of the ‘to-do list’, making the earth run on solar/wave etc. power is what we are trying to achieve at the moment.

Only after we achieve this may we be able to build hotels on mars.