[extropy-chat] The NSA's disclosures on UFOs

[Gary Miller]

>> I always liked this quip: "If the aliens want us to know about them:
>> land!  If they don't want us to know about them: turn off the lights! 
>> You'd think space faring intelligences could figure that out."

If Aliens visitors are out there they are certainly smart enough to know
that 
if they revealed themselves all at once the ensuing panic and cultural shock

could do a great deal of damage to a civilization.

The fear and panic could for the most part be prevented by a gradual
insertion 
of the "We are not alone" idea by way of intermittent sightings.

The aliens can then monitor our level of acceptance of the idea by
monitoring 
our movies and literature.  Since our media tends to split on
friendly/unfriendly
aliens in it's presentation it is probable that we will not be invited to
join the
Galactic Federation until such time as we are able to curb our distrust
stemming
from our primitive fight/flight response.

I'm not saying they're there.  I'm just saying that if they are, they're
behaving in
a perfectly logical manner from my way of thinking.