UFOs

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(05-19-2021, 01:51 PM)George Cantstandya Wrote: Let's not let this thread go in to politics and religion land please because it is an interesting topic and not one I'd like to see moved to a forum I avoid.  

Anyway, as to questions if earth is being visited by extraterrestrials why have they not made contact?  One theory I ran across a bit ago was that any life form capable of traveling the universe to our planet may be so far advanced beyond our current human progress that they either are not interested in communicating or that they communicate with each other on a level that is not compatible with our current human linguistics.    Imagine humans trying to communicate to ants for example.  We know that ants do communicate with each other  but as advanced as we are we can not directly communicate with ants.  

So perhaps if intelligent life has visited or is still visiting they are so much more advanced than us that they see us as we see ants.  Perhaps they communicate in a way so much different than our language they don't bother or can't find a way to communicate.  Communication can be much more complicated than words and letters that make sounds.   Our language is based on symbols (letters), spoken sounds, and body language but in the grand scheme of the universe is not very old (only about 150,000 years).  It could be that a civilization capable of traveling to Earth communicates in a much different way.  For example maybe they communicate by releasing certain pheromones (like ants do) and don't use letters or sounds at all.

Of course we could argue that intelligent life with the technology to traverse the universe should be able to find a way to understand our language.  It's hard to say.  But again, if they are so advanced maybe they don't see us worth trying to communicate with.  We may just be ants to them and a point of curiosity since they are so much more advanced.  Based on the theoretical age of the universe (13.77 billion years) humans are brand new about 0.00002 years old on that scale.  

We tend to somewhat humanize what we think aliens may be.  It could very well be they are absolutely nothing like us biologically or are even outside our current understanding of biology if they exist, perhaps capable of forms of communication and understating of the universe developed maybe millions of years or more before humans came into existence.  Just something to think about.

Here is an interesting article from Astronomy Magazine on the issue of communicating with aliens or lack of being able to:

https://astronomy.com/bonus/alien-contact

While I  was reading this I kept flashing on how Sheldon Cooper is "too evolved" to be able to learn to drive.

My warped humor aside, your point is taken. Some think they do communicate with us. And that Tesla, for one, was able to hear. 

FSIW, the existence of extraterrestrials, aliens or whatever doesn't threaten my faith one iota.