At The Daily Bell, a site I like to haunt with some regularity, there has been discussion again about the possibility of a fake Space Alien landing to drive the peoples of the world to form a "more better Union" in the way of a totalitarian one-world government. Last night on the History Channel 2 was the season premier, and transfer from the original History Channel, of the show "Ancient Aliens" which continues the argument that ancient man was too stupid to figure out all the neat things he did so he needed help from the "gods," which to the "Ancient Alien (conspiracy) Theorists" had to be alien beings from outer space (I of course have my own theory that doesn't involve aliens). I am highly incredulous about claims of intelligent creatures from other planets landing here on Earth and I have been asked to explain why.
As the substance of this Universe evolves and coalesces from the simplest of forms into more complex material eventually leading to what we humans call "Life," it always does so in adaptation to the local environment in which it finds itself. Though life can and will probably be found all throughout the known areas of outer space - if it evolved here on Earth then it can be expected to evolve anywhere else - each individual life-form is made for the place where it is found and only those other locations that are very similar in a small window of allowances for fluctuation.
For instance, a fish can be taken from the ocean or a river and placed in an aquarium but the container must be carefully monitored to ensure that the environment contained within maintains a close proximity to that from which the fish came from or it will not survive long. One cannot throw a fish into the air and expect it to become a bird and fly away and if the fish is kept out of the water too long it will soon die. Birds can trace their lineage back to life coming from the sea but that was a slow process that took billions of years and was full of peril for each individual life-form along the way.
Humans and other intelligent beings from other worlds are adapted to their home planets and no other. They can make short excursions outside the atmosphere but interstellar and intergalactic space is full of dangerous radiation that can destroy both the lives of the beings and the structure of the small containers - spacecraft - they are traveling in. There is a limit of how far the technology to make these containers can go regardless of the amount of intelligence a race can muster due to the fact that any materials used in their construction must come from the elements of this Universe.
Then there are the distances that such travelers must cover to go from the area of one star to another. Albert Einstein theorizes that the Universe does have a speed limit that matter, particularly living matter, cannot exceed. This places the time needed to travel outside the life expectancy of Man or any other intelligent creatures that evolved in a fashion similar to Man, and since Man evolved here on Earth under the same Laws of Physics that are found anywhere else in the Universe, then any other intelligent form of life can be expected to have evolved in a similar fashion.
Based on my realistic interpretation of the reality I gather through my senses and that which I gather from the academic works of others in which I place some trust and faith because what they postulate is consistent with that which I have also observed, I cannot see the possibility of Man traveling the far reaches of the Universe and I consider it highly unlikely that any life-form from another planet similar to life-forms here on Earth can make the same journey in our direction. Therefore, I am highly suspect of any claims to such contact from outer space now or at anytime in the past within the history of the human race, or the planet Earth for that matter.
If some creature of higher intelligence presents itself with proof of its existence to me, then I am not against changing my mind since such an entity would have to be considered a God compared to us humans. In that case I do have a "magic wish" I would like it to fulfill. Since my wish involves regressive time-travel, if you never hear from me again, you'll know what happened...
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