Just the fact that any planets lifeform requires an ecosystem of consumption and survival is actually quite disturbing.
Here on earth virtually every species of life attacks and kills other species of life because it has to to survive. Based on this I believe that chances are that if we meet other lifeforms from other planets they wont be friendly.
There are also other life-forms that form simbiotic relationships.
I do agree that any other intelligent life would evolve as a predator... think about it, the predator has to track, chase, and maneuover to catch his prey, whereas the prey merely has to run far enough from the predator to survive. Having versatile thumbs would be important as to have the dexterirty to fashion tools. It is also more likely that the creature be a social creature and communicate easily.
nally believe that evolution may eventually do away with emotions because all we need are logical decision making to proliferate as a species and emotions will only hinder this.
Kinda like the vulcans?? Trans-humanism would say that in the future people will be bound together with chips in the brain that relay all throughts through a central computer... sounds almost 'borg' to me
Sorry for the star trek analogy, but other than the comical use of forehead plastics to create new alien species, and everyone speaking english, all the aliens from Star Trek really are just different elements of the human psyche thrown into an interplanetary society.
why I believe that if life out there finds us it will almost certainly only look at us and earth as a resource for their proliferation and have no emotion as to where we fit in.
As an alien species trying to take over a plaeet.. I doubt that open war-fare style conquest would be worth it in an instance where the populations are beyond a certain technological point.... on the other hand, if they were to encounter a primitive civilisation with the high tech to travel to the planet would be fairly simple to show them that you are a God and should be worshipped as such...
The human lifespan so far is only a fraction of a blink of an eye in terms of lifespan of the universe...
This accounts for why we haven't seen life out there yet and possibly won't for a hundred thousand years
I'm not going to vouch for the validity, but I did see an article talking about how there was observed 'explosions' in space at roughly 180000light years away that was NOT a super-nova... the implication was that it was witnessed evidence of a war in space... Like I said, I don't know if this is legit, but I wouldn't place it in the realm of the impossible.
There's that, and also the fact that it's a big damn universe. Another species could have easily had the drop on us by over a billion years, turned conquest and savagery into the purest artform and they'd be nowhere close to finding us.
Also, if the speed of light is a true barrier (which in all probablility is just a limit on current technology) then there is the issue of how long it takes to actually travel between planets in space... I mean again with Star Trek, Warp 1 is Light speed, Warp 2 is like 3x light speed, warp 3 is like 9x light speed, and so on... and still it is implied days and weeks travel between planets.
e first try to decide the best means by which we can survive us.
That's simple in principle, figure out the people that present the biggest risk to our common survival, root out their evil and be ever-vigilant to prevent this evil from rising again.
Possibly one of the only two ways humans can survive themselves, is to have a clear and imminent threat from beings elsewhere in the universe. Possibly the only thing that would make humans around the world forget about their differences and bind together as one entity.
Now, I have heard of a 'project bluebeam' where through technology are aiming to create a holographic threat against humanity as a means to gain total control over humanity... again, I'm not going to vouch for the validity of this.
The other way for humans to survive themselves is to have an actual God present himself to quell all doubts and suppress any religious disputes.
How would we recognize 'God'?? Since the Bible's prohibition of 'graven images of God' we have no reference for what a 'God' might look like.