Ravenwood - 04/28/05 07:00 AM
Steven Speilberg thinks that if an alien species ever visits Earth, they will be friendly, and come bearing gifts. The AP reports:
"I have to certainly believe what my heart tells me. That the first time there is a meeting of the minds between extraterrestrials and human beings, it's going to be friendly," Spielberg told The Associated Press in an interview looking ahead to his "War of the Worlds" saga, starring Tom Cruise. [...]Hey, it's not like human history is filled with stories of advanced civilizations conquering lesser civilizations and stealing their booty. And global explorers routinely traveled to strange and exotic places completely unarmed and defenseless. Right?"I can't believe anybody would travel such vast distances bent on destruction. I believe anybody who would travel such vast distances are curious explorers, not conquerors," Spielberg said. "Carrying weapons a hundred-thousand light-years is quite a schlepp. I believe it's easier to travel 100,000 light-years with their versions of the Bible."
(Via Taranto)
Beware Greeks Bearing gifts..........
in fact there is a nice old Sci-Fi novel named Greks bring Gifts, check it out.
it wona Hugo.
There/their in the last paragraph.
Posted by: Nate at April 28, 2005 10:35 AMI imagine Cortez brought a lot of Bibles with him when he visited Mexico....
Posted by: Robert Garrard at April 28, 2005 10:50 AMI think that SS should ask himself WHY an alien race would send someone across a vast distance...
...to share/acquire technology? Nah, they can travel across space, they don't need us.
...to explore, and add to their body of knowledge? Maybe, but that wouldn't necessarily mean contact. Schrodingers cat and all that.
...to find resources? Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner. Whether they are looking for slave labor (probably unlikely, as technology takes its place) or materials, they are probably looking to take some/all of our stuff. Do you think that a significantly more advanced race would ask us nicely for all of our water/air/planet? Do you negotiate with bees for their honey, or cows for their leather? Do you ask the ants before you build a house where their nest now stands? Hell no, you take what you want, and if they get uppity, you exterminate them.
I think that if someone comes for a visit, we should be nice until we are sure of their intentions, but to assume that "they come in peace" ranks right up there with "hey, sweet wooden horse...let's drag it inside!"
Posted by: Nick Bourbaki at April 28, 2005 11:53 AMThey've been here! Don't you guys know about Roswell?
Posted by: kjo at April 28, 2005 4:16 PMFor Space Aliens, substitute Mongols.
For Earth, substitute any place the Mongols visited.
Still make sense?
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