I like to reverse engineer things in order to get a foundation under my frail belief system. In this regard I think there might be some plausible explanations for the lack of Alien contact.
1. We are alone in the universe. An anomalous evolutionary copulation. An error. A mistake. We find ourselves at the very top of the food chain that we are ill prepared to assume responsibility for. Somehow found the only "Sweet spot" in the galaxy.
2. We are under quarantine by a plurality of alien life that find us too dangerous to spread across the galaxy. This might be indefinite or eternal damnation. A rise in our own venturing inside our solar system seem to produce an uptick in "sightings".
3. We are the aliens we are looking for and we have already settled here. (Panspermia). Many drawings and folklore tales of superior(?) beings visiting this planet. Even the Bible is ripe with strange creatures (All with gift of flight) and designs of things that make no sense to the writers at the time. Ezekiels Gyroscopic wheel.
1a) I think the "alone in the universe" terrifies even the most ardent scientist/atheist. Unfathomable…there must be other life. A devotion to this "Hope" borders on religious fanaticism. It has been stated: We don't know but there must be other life forms. Like children seeing the Virgin Mary (How she stayed a virgin after having other children with Joseph still baffles me.) Scientists scramble to see water and amino acids everywhere.
2a) Being under quarantine is debilitating. It means we can strive to reach the stars but it will be in vain. Like the tower of babel when men tried to reach heaven.
I think this also to be egregious and unfair because it guaranties that life exists elsewhere. This is the unrequited love of Earth toward the galaxy.
3a) Not so far fetched is the idea that we are us. Or we are them. After all this seems as a good a place as any to settle. (Or to be placed). We ourselves seem to prefer, in the beginning, to be content, to send people to the moon before robots. Which is really a nonsensical idea.
My good friend Neil provided an interesting read which I would like to address in this way. Science fiction of the past always makes its way into science fact. Why is this? Are these ideas already part of our Instinct? Are these vain imaginations or predetermined programs?
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