Itâs funny that the Atomic bomb is such a pivotal part of provoking alien contact (according to many a crazy person). Like, they wouldnât care about genocide spanning the ages, chemical weapons, torture, burning witches, destroying the planet⌠no. Atomic bombs. Even though weâve learnt to understand their impact (historical and potential), apparently these super intelligent aliens havenât. Atomic bombs are something that introduced fear into the hearts of a very specific generation⌠coincidentally the same generation that promote these conspiracy theories.
Reminds me of a lot of theism, it always seems to be limited by the understanding of those that preach it. Funny, that.
Yeah. . . but heâs still less crazy than the average Tea Partier. Iâd vote for this guy over Michelle Bachmann or Ted Cruz.
Well, unlike most of those other weapons, you can see an Atomic Bomb detonation from space. Although an alien race trying to discern our actions from the nuclear bomb explosions might be confused as to why we seem to hate the American Southwest so much back in the 50s and 60s.
This is a hopeful message. That Aliens are out there, but they donât want anything to do with us until we settle down and stop fighting ourselves. Itâs the kind of message you get from someone who really really wants to see alien life in their lifetime and are holding out hope that itâs just our bad behavior keeping them away, not that interstellar travel is effectively impossible and weâll never see them.
It doesnât change the fact that the guy is totally off his rocker; but, from the perspective of a substantially distanced alien species, human exploitation of atomic energy is actually a reasonable trigger condition: If you arenât much of a humanitarian (and so arenât moved by low-tech suffering which can be induced by virtually any means); but are more interested in overall tech level, the move from chemical energy-based blowing shit up to nuclear energy-based blowing shit up is one of the more radical shifts in a speciesâ history.
We donât actually use nukes that often, so cheap assault rifles and commodity high explosives have killed far more people; but the development of thermonuclear weapons marked the turning point between âwe can make some very questionable choicesâ and âYâknow, we could actually annihilate most of the biological film on the crust of this planetâŚâ
(Now, why advanced aliens who probably spend their time playing ping-pong with unshielded singularities care is another question entirely.)
If you were watching earth from space, the industrial revolution would probably be your tip-off that something big was going down. Massive proliferation of ground-based electromagnetic sources combined with a shift in atmospheric composition in the direction of carbon and sulfur compoundsâŚ
For all we know Atomic Energy is Step 4 on the 67 step ladder to being a modern intergalactic species. There could be vast fields of science that we donât even know we lack yet.
Donât trust benevolent aliens: ITâS A COOKBOOK!
Thatâs one theory. And then there are the other theories. Like the one that posits that once a civilization invents atomic explosives, it is doomed to fall. And then, the more interesting one: WE are one of the Elder Races. . . question is, will be get off-planet or not ???
wait⌠iâve seen this episodeâŚ
If anything we should be building more nukes!
Thatâs a doom mongering point of view. Weâve had Atomic Weapons for almost 70 years now and have only ever dropped them twice in anger, both times shortly after they were invented.
Ironically, they have turned into weapons of peace, by making the price of war so terrible that it can not be fought directly with a nuclear armed state. At this rate weâll never see WWIII.
Oh please. Everybody knows that the aliens are staying away because of all of the gay sex. Even alien races with 3 or more distinct genders know that itâs wrong. âMarriage is between one vloom, one zarg, and one czyg, not any of the permutations that involve two or more of a vloom, zarg, and czyg,â they often say.
//cc @jandrese
But surely itâs all relative? If youâre a super-intelligent alien species that has the power to travel across galaxies, why would you be any more impressed by the discovery of nuclear fission than you would by the internal combustion engine? Or fire? Or using rocks as tools? (from what I understand the entire planet doesnât even have enough nukes to destroy everything, let alone one side of the fight).
Frankly I hope that alien life DOESNâT find us. I know too much about human history to know that if theyâre anything like us it wonât end well.
Either way the guy is delusional to the point where I hope his family is getting him help. There is too much conviction in his words for him not to be completely crackers.
âŚso, what youâre saying is that to help protect our planet from alien invasion we all need to start having more gay sex?
kinda hard to take a warmongering alien seriously when he inflects his voice like Emo Phillips
but back to the broader topic:
"The whole cosmos is a unity, and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos, theyâve very much afraid that we might be stupid enough to start using atomic weapons again.
âAgainâ!? if theyâre so worried about nukes, and theyâve been visiting us for thousands of years, where the hell were these aliens when we used 'em the first time?
Like how the presence of Dr Manhattan prevented the Russians from attacking? Until he left, anywayâŚ
(That may not be actual history, I forget)
I for one welcome our Mitt Romney Alien overlords.
Why are aliens always bald and colorless.
But given the near-impossibility of interstellar travel, youâd think itâd take quite a long time and a very big investment to develop, right?
So any civilisation capable of pulling that off wouldâve first had to figure out how to be sustainable, precluding much of the arseholery you allude to.
Perversion! Parthenogenesis or GTFO!
