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Originally Posted by Buffy
Nothing strange about this topic Michael! Moved to Anthropology because....
...think about it: what if you replaced the word "extraterestrails" with say, "African Pygmies" or "Big Feets"?
Why would you want to hide? In another thread around here, one motivation (ours) would be to avoid being noticed by Borg-like "civilizations".
No wonder those Pygmies hide....
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Buffy |
it would seem to make sense for primitives to hide instead of look for the big guys. Of course to all depends on how easy star travel really is, and what a civilization a thousand or a millions years ahead of us could do or would want to do. From the stand point o find sight wouldn't the native Americans have wanted to hide from the Europeans?
Contrary to modern belief the native American weren't all that inferior to The Europeans. If not for the small pox and religious fear the Americans could have kicked the Europeans back into the ocean easily. Of course hind sight is always 20/20 If the Europeans had waited another couple hundred years it might have been the native Americans who visited them instead of the other way around.
If ET's hide from each other due to concerns like interstellar conquorers or simply not wanting to be influenced by superior beings then how do we find them? I think one idea was that a really advanced civilization would enclose their entire star and would be detectable as a source of infrared radiation instead of a star.
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