Aliens have never been to Earth, claims former astronaut

[Batu69]

Commentary: Alan Bean, one of only 12 people who have walked on the moon, insists he has good reasons for believing that we have never had a visitation.

 

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.

I'd always thought that aliens have visited us from quite a few planets.

 

Each time, they took one look, snorted: "Primitive creatures. Sad!" and left us to our own pitiful devices.

Former moonwalker Alan Bean, though, is of a different view.

 

Speaking to Australia's news.com, Bean -- an Apollo 12 astronaut and one of only 12 humans to have ever walked on the moon -- mused: "I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth."

 

 

That's quite a belief. Hasn't he ever looked around the world -- goodness, he lives in Texas -- and wondered about a few of his fellow beings and where they might have originated?

 

Bean, though, insisted: "Civilizations that are more advanced are more altruistic and friendly -- like Earth, which is better than it used to be -- so they would have landed and said, 'We come in peace and we know from our studies you have cancer that kills people, we solved that problem 50 years ago, here's the gadget we put on a person's chest that will cure it, we will show you how to make it.'"

 

How odd that he thinks Earthlings are altruistic and friendly. I suppose everything is relative. And how depressing is the idea implied here that we might be the most advanced, altruistic and friendly beings in the Universe.

 

But isn't the idea that advanced civilizations always come in peace a touch far-fetched? World history suggests that at least some advanced civilizations were rather fond of conquering lesser nations and butchering their people.

 

Indeed, Stephen Hawking has already warned that aliens might hate us and seek to immediately destroy us, even if it's just for fun.

 

Bean says he does believe aliens exist.

"There's so many billions of stars and these stars have planets around them so there must be statistically many planets around many stars that have formed life," he said.

 

Relying on statistics has its perils. But there could surely be fewer better times for aliens to show themselves to us than now.

It might give us a little perspective. It might even teach us what a small, uneducated blip in the galaxy we truly are.

 

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[virge]

The human race is extremely violent. If aliens are monitoring our communications, they probably want nothing to do with us. I wouldn't be surprised on the intergalactic list of planets to visit, Earth ranks at the bottom. Think about it, if you were an intelligent species who could travel light years in any direction, would you really want to visit Earth. 

[Mohenjo-daro]

They(Aliens) might not care or think at all about us due to unfamiliar language and we may seem like just one of many species walking on Earth to them. They might attack us along with all other species of Earth not because they have something against us Or they might just leave us or try to communicate with any/all kind living species of Earth. We might do the same if we get to land on some other planet that has life.

[Phragmeister]

Either governments of the world are suppressing revolutionary, life-changing technology, or we've been visited by aliens for a long time, or perhaps even both. There have been way too many sightings of (what seem and act like) out-of-this-world aircraft.

[DKT27]

I have always believed that other species of this universe have not reached the level to be able contact us, or, it's not practically possible for those other species to reach us, considering we ourselves have never yet set a foot on another planet - I repeat, planet, other than ours here.

[IronY-Man]

I would agree with one of the dozen that if "they " are really intelligent and advanced they wouldn't want anything to do with us !!

 

[luisam]

Guess that to "pacific" aliens even those early Iron Age irascible and primitive humans should have looked highly dangerous. I remember having read a quite funny SF short story about how some aggresive prehistoric humans drove away some space invaders using stone age resources and human ingenuity (sorry, don't remember the title)

 

But humans, as a menace to intergalactic tourists only are present since about 50.000 years and aliens might have arrived at any moment of life on Earth, since about 2000 millions years or more.

 

The point that excludes the possibility of this alien visitors is the fact that genetic information of all lving being studied, from virus to human beings, including all bacteria and vegetation indicate that all are made by the same DNA. There are no residues of any different DNA or what we might call "a different life" which could be attributed to a different line of evolution of life, as should be those of alien visitors.

Any aliens arriving to Earth at any moment of Earth's existence would have left some kind of contamination with the equivalent of their DNA due to their own equivalents of bacteria or virus, different to that of natural evolution of life on Earth which should show up in genetic studies.

 

At least, this is MY theory!

[tao]

In Jest but ...

 

Amazing:

how we know so much of what we don't know. 

how we know so little of what we know.