Humans usually have to win in these stories, no matter how seriously advanced the ETI. I always found that silly if not outright implausible. In real life, usually the weaker party loses.
In the case of Footfall, the point I am making is that the alien's weapons of choice are not fancy laser beams or photon torpedoes, but well-aimed planetoids. A few of those on our cities and strategic defense sites and we are done for.
In other words, it would be easy for an aggressive ETI to take Earth from us and the fact that none seem to have done so means that such conquering beings either do not exist or they just haven't found us yet (it is a big galaxy, after all). Of course one hopes that a society that can traverse the stars would be peaceful, but then again we do have the example of the Borg (they mean well - they think everyone should be as enlightened as them). Of course, they are fictional, too.
Which leads to another point - with a galaxy of 400 billion stars and probably even more planets, comets, planetoids and countless resources, why bother with Earth and the talking monkeys with car keys? Other than how NOT to behave, what could they learn or want from us?
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- What alternative explanations might apply to Mexico's recent UFO claims? (online video clip included)
- TEST (I see no text box for 'reply', Netscape 6, I-mac 9.0.4) (n/t)
- A MUCH MORE IMPORTANT QUESTION:
- Another popular Mexico video....
- Thermal inversions or sensor ghosts
- re: What alternative explanations might apply to Mexico's recent UFO claims? (online video clip included)
- They've been with us for quite some time.
- We won the Footfall war (n/t)
- the unspoken problem with pilots as observers
- Iranians are seein' 'em too. (n/t)
- Alternative to what? So far I see no explanation at all. Nobody has bothered to investigate. (n/t)
- Perhaps the U.S. govt. has finally created basically invisible aircraft?