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In reply to the discussion: UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact [View all]jberryhill
(62,444 posts)If advanced beings have figured out that energy problem, they can routinely visit us.
For the purpose of doing nothing other than generating folklore, because they cant figure out how not to be seen, so they just enter the atmosphere and zip around for no purpose.
What you dont grasp is that the universe is some 14 billion years old. The earth has been around for about 4 billion of those years, and life on earth of any kind has been around for a little over 3 billion years.
Now, humans developed language something like 50,000 years ago, and even then did not exist on much of this planet. Humans only reached what are now the Americas in any significant number not more than half the time we could talk to one another.
As a proportion of the age of the earth, humans have been around for .0000125 of the earths age.
The earth, of course is one of around 30 billion planets just in this galaxy alone.
Against that backdrop of improbable discovery at the right moment by some alien intelligence, to believe that not only are they visiting us now, but keep showing up to do nothing other than a shitty job of hiding themselves, is PRECISELY the same medieval anthropocentric mentality that put he earth at the center of everything as the special creation in Gods own image. Humans have a hard time conceiving of a vastly large and vastly old universe which is constantly changing and in which humans do not have a starring role.
It is no different from any other religious belief system in which the unknown is explained away by gods, rather than simply face the fact that we dont know everything.