Aliens and Extraterrestrials – Why the Topic Actually Matters
Are We Alone in the Universe?
Have I gone bonkers? Have I lost it?! Am I really about to talk about UFO’s and alien beings here on this website devoted to the highest calling of SCIENCE?! Well, yes, I am going to discuss that but I highly doubt I’m crazy in the slightest. More importantly: it makes more sense to address the hypothetical questions about aliens’ existence, not to prove they exist or not. Even if we could somehow determine that aliens do not exist and intelligent life can never be found outside of Earth, it still serves as a useful thought experiment to consider the idea and what questions arise relating to the purpose of our existence.
Consider for a moment that should aliens actually exist and have been to Earth before. That would mean that their technology has been, and will likely continue to remain, vastly more advanced than ours. It would also mean that some of the most fundamental scientific laws that have run societal development for the past several centuries are also probably wrong. Quantum theory in contemporary research has already shown that this is probably the case – what appear initially to be paradoxes may actually just present the way things actually are, such as the two-slit experiment. Or, the notion that particles may behave according to probability rather than conventional physics more often when we examine things at an extremely small level. Which, you know, is just… weird.
Admittedly, I am the last person who should be talking about weirdness in the natural sciences. It simply is not my field! I only wish to raise these examples as a way of generally challenging what is often misguided conventional thought processes. More is possible and we know more is possible because we continue to progress, usually having to prove ourselves wrong and learn from our mistakes as we go along.
Some people around the internet may have seen a recent documentary called Thrive. From what I understand, the opinions of the movie range from total nonsense to absolute brilliance. I do think it focuses a bit too much on certain ideas that are likely false, namely the “torus” shape that is supposed to be central to giving the world free energy. I think that to show the shape of a torus and the pair with that image the equation to the torus from simple mathematics as expressed in euclidean space is to dumb down the hypothetical existence of such technology to a level that does absolutely nothing to help the viewer. To see more of what I am talking about in relation to the film, watch the trailer for it below. At the time of this writing, it has nearly a million views on YouTube.
The mainstream media tends not to discuss alien stuff and all of Western culture has been taught to look at those who do discuss the idea as kooky and goofy. But when we examine the numbers, both in terms of the number of stars, the number of class M planets, the self-evident fact that we are here right now today – it stands to reason that intelligent life exists all over the place, possibly in even greater abundance than we would guess. Even more extreme, the possibility also exists that we are not “intelligent” by comparison of other intelligent life.
The documentary Thrive raises its most extreme point very well: that the incentive to not talk about extraterrestrials in the media, academia, or throughout most mediums in modern popular culture serves to prop up the status quo, the megacorporate establishment, the veil of ignorance that allows technology and the scarcity mindset of the world to remain as it is. Given that human potential is my signature motivation here on this website, I find this argument of technological suppression very appealing. Still, given that I do claim myself a scientist, I also have to admit very strongly here that the evidence that advanced energy technologies exist right now is somewhat low. It does, however, make a lot of sense that these technologies would be suppressed in interest of crony capitalistic pursuit.
For example, we already know that electric vehicles have been largely suppressed. When the Obama Administration and current Congress decided to bailout the United States’ major automakers, none of them decided to reinvent themselves by producing electric cars and infrastructure. Why not? When investors independent of the big automakers got together and made Tesla Motors, it was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only are electric cars more than possible – they work as a sustainable solution when you devote resources to improving and innovating the current technological infrastructure.
Even primitive solar technology already allows for individuals to begin investing in their own long term subsistence to get off the dependency of the electric companies. Nikola Tesla invented a system of energy towers, called Wardenclyffe towers, that JP Morgan cut funding from and never let come to be on the basis that Tesla’s energy system could not be accurately metered for billing on a finance sheet. In other words, Tesla’s invention provided the ability for individuals everywhere to simply tap into 100% free energy from the network of towers, which would transfer electricity between each other wirelessly, and JP Morgan shut down the idea to make trillions of dollars.
Technology is perhaps one of the best places to examine the power structure that currently exists in our world. Gas prices continue to rise regardless of supply. People have consistently moved off of their subsistent farm lands into cities where they become dependent on centralized services, paper dollars devalue the currency from central banks, five companies control the majority of mainstream media, and megacorporations continue to fight for their griphold on American government. From energy to healthcare, the problem continues and shows no sign of relent.
What do aliens have to do with technology? Well, everything. Because if aliens have actually visited this planet, that means that their technology is such that energy is no longer of concern for them. Even NASA is beginning to understand the relevance of such ideas as zero point energy. Zero point energy (ZPE) is described as a method of obtaining energy through tapping into the existing vacuum of space. It is quite literally utilizing the inherent energy already present in matter itself. From this NASA page, NASA admits that while the idea is not very feasible, ongoing research continues to unveil its use as a distinct possibility:
In simplistic terms it has been said that there is enough energy in the volume the size of a coffee cup to boil away Earth’s oceans. – that’s one strong cup of coffee! For a while a lot of physics thought that concept was too hard to swallow. This vacuum energy is more widely accepted today.
So, some people out there on the internet are beginning to wonder. Have we been wrong this whole time about technologies? Is there an incentive to cover up the possible existence of aliens for the purpose of suppressing the truth and maintaining crony capitalistic industry? What does the future hold? What will come from the next great inventors and who will be the next great inventors? Could it be you?
Humanity is meant to take to the stars. If there is anything long term survival theory says, it definitely says that, on the basis of our intelligence and our ability to use reason. If intelligent extra-terrestrials exist outside of Earth, it means that our wars here on Earth really, truly, are pointless. It means that the technologies we have are limited at best and that our knowledge of science is horridly skewed or inaccurate.
Most interesting of all – would it mean that our form of governance is wrong? What type of government would aliens with more advanced technology even have? Would they be anarchists? Communists? Would they have a Democratic Republic like the United States is meant to have? Perhaps they would have none of these things. What difference does technology make to different forms of governance? The issue, I suspect, lies in the foundations – if technology would change a form of government, then government should be designed in a way that reflects what is ultimately possible.
More powerful technologies demand increased need for personal responsibility and education. Maybe I ought to pitch libertarianism as a guiding ideal for advanced technology, which says that every individual assumes responsibility for their self and they alone must be responsible for the technologies they use. Perhaps rationality might be the guiding principle so that we make proper decisions and use good rules of reasoning. Since we can accept that the first premise is true: that each individual holds responsibility for their own actions, then maybe it is not hard to imagine that the other concepts then logically follow: that we should have a form of government that reflects such.
Would aliens bother with genetically modified foods (GMOs)? Or would they simply grow ecosystems that duplicate existing ones? Would they obviously have been so stupid as to have made careless mistakes in their scientific principle? Well, if they exist and traverse the stars then certainly not! Humanity needs to begin to wonder whether or not they are alone more often. If we are not alone, it completely changes the nature of much of our existence. If we are not alone, we have a lot more responsibility than we ever thought. If we are not alone, we have beautiful mysteries that can be solved, so long as we have the patience and devotion to the solve them.
If we are not alone, perhaps we will be that much more motivated to survive.
It would behoove you to avoid oversimplifying physics into a spoonful of jejune drivel, unless your audience is primarily composed of retarded introverts that like to fantasize about the Drake equation.
Better to go back to talking about why the government should let you snort cocaine and take LSD tabs before getting into a car.
Even if aliens existed (how do you not see the hilarity?), what makes you think they’d take our presence so kindly? Would you take the Buzz Lightyear approach?