I consider my self to be mature enough to be able to use something,as long as I was taught how to use it.
I was careful to use objects in my example to show how they could be used for better or for worse. A chainsaw can be used to help provide shelter for a people, or it can be used to clear entire forests and fuel the demands of an industrialist capitalist society. An airliner can traverse great distances in little time, but it can also be loaded with weapons and used as a weapon itself. Would you trust a Cro Magnon with a pistol, or a police officer from NYC?
As for having to wait until we develop the specific devices ourselves before we are ready to use them,
I can use a microwave,a telephone,and a stereo system and I probly would have never invented them myself.
I meant the species or the most advanced culture within our species, not the individual. You've grown up around such devices, and you're used to them. If FTL travel is possible, and these aliens have it, then they would be speeding our technological advancement ahead by hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. Don't they have some kind of a Prime Directive to follow, not to intervene in the affairs of another intelligent species unless that species has FTL travel?
I have been interested in the UFO subject for many years. None of this is new to me.
Same here. I've been interested in UFOs almost all my life, I saw the Disclosure Project's website months ago.
From
what I have read over the years, I don't believe they are hostile.
They don't respond in a hostile way to our aircraft chasing them,
they just evade our craft.
I've heard about UFOs being violent, don't tell me that you haven't. As I recall there was an airbase somewhere in the US, about fifty years ago that detected a UFO. They scrambled some jets, F-4s, I think, and when they had spotted the object only one guy decided to follow it. They had trouble identifying his corpse in the wreckage, I believe. Do you really think an F-4 could pursue a UFO that's capable of traversing galaxies? We have planes that are used every day that could easily outrun an F-4!
If they were interested in taking over
I'm just trying to play Devil's Advocate here, but let's say they are interested in taking the earth, stripping it of its resources but mainly its labor. We could be used as slaves. However, if we were overpowered and separated, moved across the galaxy, etcetera, wouldn't our population growth decrease exponentially? It's possible that they want as many of us as they can get, and they're going to get us only when they percieve that we have a weapon that could actually defeat them.
Same as we would be if we were
able to travel to another planet and find a less advanced, but still
intelligent race. A subject of study, no more, no less.
Human nature has hardly changed at all, if at all, since the first Europeans found the New World five hundred years ago. They were greeted with smiles, supplies, and friendliness, and how were they repaid? They were enslaved, their cultures destroyed, there are almost no living descendents of the native Caribbeans alive today. Then there's Central America, North America, Australia....the list goes on and on. If humanity discovered another race that wasn't as developed technologically as we were, you can bet your bottom dollar that they'd be enslaved and extinguished before you could say "Columbus wasn't the first to find America."
The main issue should always be whether or not they exist.
I agree. I think that most Americans, though, have a pretty good idea that something wierd is going on.
One more thing--pardon me for asking again, but could you answer this question?
Okay, so these Disclosure Project people--have they gone before Congress, and if they did, what did Congress say. If they haven't gone before Congress when are they planning to?
