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In reply to the discussion: Navy Pilots Report Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects Over East Coast: NYT [View all]Xolodno
(6,390 posts)...remember reading somewhere that the "UFO" fanaticism was not only liked by our secret development programs, but also encouraged. It gave them cover. Sometime back, a stealth blimp was created and they flew it over Phoenix. Nothing on the radar, but the blimps lights were on, freaking people out. Seemed to be a last hurrah of a project they deemed not usable.
There is no doubt alien life, at minimum at the microbe level. Problem is, what are the chances they evolve enough to reach our standard of civilization?
Remember, there was another type(s) of species that dominated our planet prior to us, until a meteor took them out. Our moon shields us from most rocks from space decimating us, but not all.
Then of course, they have to get through the process of not killing each other to extinction as we almost/yet to see. Or wipe out their own planet due to pollution, over population, etc.
And to top that all off, if they survive all this, they have to develop far enough the technology to achieve light speed and faster than light speed at a minimal energy and resource cost. And if they achieve that....
Then they also have developed the technology to be completely invisible to our technology....and they certainly wouldn't send their own people, if per chance one of their ships crashes our planet, the various viruses, diseases, etc. could cause an extinction wide event, likewise, the survivors would have the same problem. So, send sterilized probes instead. Hence, if they are around, we have no way to detect them via technology or by sight.
If they are colonizing anything, its worlds in their immediate system...even if they were inhabitable, they could "terra-from" them to their liking. We already have primitive plans to terra-form Mars....and Venus probably isn't too far away.
And they sure is hell are not going to contact us while were divided into warring tribes. They'll wait until we get our shit together....or if we get our shit together.