Reflections on the Fermi Paradox
In a period of less than one hundred years, humankind advanced from traveling by horse and buggy to making a trip to its planet’s satellite.
Within such of time scale, ten thousand years is hardly the blink of an eye.Indeed, there were even intelligent humans ten thousand years ago, and what if the alien civilizations have been around for even longer, maybe even for millions of years? Aliens, if they are out, would have visited us long ago, and without any visible signs of alien visitation, Fermi concluded that we are alone.
Fermi’s logic, however, relies on a couple of underlying assumptions that have yet to be proven. First, it assumes that alien technology is no more advanced that what we can imagine for ourselves in the future.
Every plausible sign of alien contact needs to be investigated. Of course, it is now well-known that the Egyptians did not need alien help to build the pyramids and so forth, but other phenomena are not so easy to explain.Among these stand the mysterious drawings on the desert floor near Nazca, Peru, drawings that were clearly intended to be viewed by an intelligent creature from the sky.
Scientists have determined, via radiocarbon dating of wooden stakes used to mark out the drawings, that the Nazca Lines date from around 600 A.D., but science has made little progress on determining why the people of Nazca drew those lines. Dozens of explanations to counter alien notions have been put forth but none are convincing. I think it unlikely that Sagan, even with his powerful telescopes, found eyes of the Moon and so it is highly doubtful that the people of Nazca, with the naked eye, were able to see eyes on the Moon.
One such instance in post-mythological times was Muhammad’s encounter with the archangel Gabriel, which produced far more than what could be attributed to ahallucinations. I’m sure almost everyone in the world (who is not a Muslim) would instantly write Muhammad off as a quack, but let’s be careful. From the other side of the world we see another sign of potential alien contact, namely, the Nazca Lines, arising during Muhammad’s lifetime.
Visit Mywolfbook.com – Make new friends – sexy guys – Meet friends online.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.