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[Freethinker]

While we can only imagine, and with little chance of being correct, what an "alien"/ extraterrestrial would look like, we CAN understand what parameters they would likely operate under.

Whether they have two heads, antennae, one big eye, no eyes, ... they still have restrictions as to available energy sources. It requires, even with our most foreward looking dreams, energy resources to travel thru space. Any extraterestrial species would have to have developed from less advanced species (Evolved). They would have had to fight the same energy source battles we have. Even if they have developed such advanced potential energy sources as Cold Fusion or ???, there is still socio-economic costs that any society would face. The efforts would have to be justified by some potential ROI.

Just as we originally developed dog species to perform work, or harnessed horses as power sources, we have only more recently had enough resources to turn food or work resources into play toys. Therefore we need to realize that these extraterestrials would have to have had space travel for an ecceptional period of time before it would turn into a play toy. One that would allow them to play "with us like we play with our dogs", or as Bo states

Originally posted by: Bo
1) Get captured by some George Bush wannabe? (i dont think any sensible person would capture an alien....)
2) Make nice pictures in crop fields?
3) remove the rectum of a cow?
.....

Or even if time travellers from the future

Originally posted by: Aki
traveled back in time to see us.

it would be for a specific ROI.

Yes we could come up with any number of fun things we could do to them, they to us, or non-fun....

But there is always an need for an ROI. And extreme technologies have extreme costs t offset.