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Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

One fact I have always found curious is that the Aliens look so much like humans -- two legs, two arms, a head with eyes, nose, and mouth. And all these abduction stories imply that they have DNA that is compatible with our DNA. If they really evolved from scratch on a faraway planet, then this would be highly unlikely. Or maybe not. There are 5 possibilities I can think of.

1) They're just products of human imagination, so of course they look like humans.

2) Panspermia -- the basis of life is universal, and is seeded by tardigrades and spores that hitch rides on meteors to inhabit new planets.

3) Maybe there's only one way to make living things given the (universal) physical and chemical laws. Life everywhere has to evolve in the same way that it has evolved on Earth.

4) I'm inclined to think that the potential for life is the raison d'etre of the Universe. There is consciousness looking to create physical forms that can house it, and it tends to come out the same everywhere..

5) Maybe the "extraterrestrials" are really our descendants, millions of years in the future. when they have learned the technology of time travel.

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Madhava Setty, MD's avatar

Thanks for listing the most essential reasons why an ET presence on our planet is not just possible but highly plausible.

There is no question that the government or its factions that have no oversight are in possession of technologies that are well beyond what the public is aware of. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year for decades and the "military" has no more to show for it than some big ships and futuristic shaped planes that can evade radar? The public thinks that the most destructive weapon on the planet is some variation of a hydrogen bomb. That technology is older than the transistor radio.

I have spent time with Dr. Greer and I believe that his intentions are good but he is wrong about all ETs being benevolent.

I posit that there are some that are "good" and some that are "bad". Why would civilizations that have gone interstellar be at odds? It cannot be about gold, petrol or lithium. I suggest that the commodity worth battling over is the control over the free will of conscious beings. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised that the so-called "negative" species have been influencing the trajectory of human civilization for millennia, working largely with those already in power, convincing them that they are uniquely endowed with the ability and rights to govern and control the masses at their whim.

The consequences of such an influence, if it existed, should be obvious. We would have religious doctrine that sets "rules of behavior" with interminable punishment if these rules are broken. We would have developed systems of censorship and surveillance that are somehow accepted with little resistance by the masses, from Sunday confessionals to the collusion of government with big tech.

There would be the exploitation of communities by others, from slavery of ancient and colonial times, to serfdom and now to the modern day miracle of central banking which allows to pay for today's disasters through tomorrow's labor.

I would bet that at their origin, these systems we have built were constructed with "help" from ETs that are primarily interested in conquest, conquest of our free will.

So where are the "good" ETs? Well, if the bad ones seek to control, the good ones must seek to liberate. I suggest that they do not see reality as a battle of good vs bad. They see it as a dance between freedom and control, love of others and love of self.

This puts them in a spot. If their "prime directive" is to allow all beings to be free, how could they interfere in any struggle without violating it?

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