DonH:

 

Well, that explains the anal probing...

 

Classic!

duckDecoy:

 

For people interested in this stuff (why have we not encountered aliens) I can highly recommend Josh Clark's podcast The End Of The World    That's the Josh Clark from Stuff You Should Know.

 

@duckDecoy Thanks for this, it's hard to find intelligent new podcasts. Listened to the first episode today on my bike ride.

ezbee:

Looking at the Thunderfoot videos explaining the numbers on the displays and sensor optics it seems that Navy techs would know the answer.

Batman: Ahh birds. Awesome

SJB:

Why would aliens want to contact us? We are the neighbors from hell.

 

 

freitasm:

What makes you think we are not robots already and not living in a simulation?

neb: This stuff reminds me of the fuss in the 1990s(?) about fast-moving alien lifeforms being caught on home video cameras.

Probably "Rods" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(optical_phenomenon)

Long after the obvious had been explained, newspapers were still publishing reports of "new discoveries" of the "unexplained phenomenon".

neb: People really, really want to believe in magic.

I'm not sure.  I think people seek explanation of - and want to understand - the inexplicable, other individuals and organisations make stuff up to manipulate them for their own reasons, usually to hold some power over them.

Probably less traumatic for kids to be bribed into behaving themselves by indoctrinating them with the myth of a fat friendly philanthropic fool bumbling his way down your chimney than trying to get them to understand the grown-up version; that there's a sky daddy who loves you, but he'll burn you and torture you for an eternity of pain and suffering if you're bad.  Unless you have a change of heart - bend the knee and beg for forgiveness - before you croak. 

neb: Look at what's happened every single time a more advanced civilisation here has run into a less advanced one.

"technologically advanced - with an emphasis on creating tools for enslavement and killing of others"

(take that part out - and some social animals on planet Earth seem to have a more "advanced" civilisation than humans)

I pose this question: 

Why would a technologically and socially advanced race of aliens come to earth to oppress us? 

I ask this, because if a civilisation is more advanced than us by a long shot, wouldn't they have gotten over themselves by now? If they are socially more advanced than us, as well as technologically, they'd be all about benevolence and assimilation, wouldn't they? 

It seems we apply to much of ourselves to what we think an alien race would be like...

I can't speak for aliens, but research has demonstrated that sexually promiscuous Bonobos are far more socially advanced than their aggressive chimpanzee cousins (and us!). Human beings chain themselves with all kinds of ridiculous restrictions on uninhibited sexual behaviour and they pay the price with sexual frustration, resulting in wars, murder, slavery, economic exploitation, pillaging of natural resources, destruction of the environment, depression and suicide, and every other ill attributed by the superstitious to original sin.

Rikkitic:

 

I can't speak for aliens, but research has demonstrated that sexually promiscuous Bonobos are far more socially advanced than their aggressive chimpanzee cousins (and us!). Human beings chain themselves with all kinds of ridiculous restrictions on uninhibited sexual behaviour and they pay the price with sexual frustration, resulting in wars, murder, slavery, economic exploitation, pillaging of natural resources, destruction of the environment, depression and suicide, and every other ill attributed by the superstitious to original sin.

 

  

 

So you're saying the Anus stuff is all about the aliens being more socially advanced than us? 

Handsomedan:

 

So you're saying the Anus stuff is all about the aliens being more socially advanced than us? 

 

Nah, just less uptight about sticking things up people's butts.

Rikkitic:

 

Human beings chain themselves with all kinds of ridiculous restrictions on uninhibited sexual behaviour and they pay the price 

 

Much of that's resulted from strict and violent enforcement of law based on Abrahamic mythology.

If alien anthropologists ("exoginopologists"???) had been observing us for more than a few thousand years, or had been looking at other cultures, they might have formed a different opinion. If they looked at art in India (as one example) or street direction signs in Pompeii, they might reach interesting conclusions.

I think some Polynesian societies were probably fairly advanced before missionaries smothered them with guilt.