What Would Aliens Want From Planet Earth Or Humans
What Would Aliens Want From Planet Earth Or Humans?
What Would Aliens Want From Planet Earth Or Humans?
And why do so many hope for “Contact” with Aliens?
I frequently hear a recurring theme among UFO and Alien believers, “The aliens will come”they say, “and help us achieve world peace”.
Isn’t this some sort of secret hope that many religions promise ?
“They created us, and will soon return to help us realize our full potential. They will lead us into a New Age of enlightenment; they will help us to evolve into a greater existence.”
Mankind is not only conscious of trees, rocks, bodies of water, and his own limbs and body, but he also must become conscious of himself as a distinct entity and role in the rest of the universe. The prime characteristic of cosmic consciousness is, as its name implies, a consciousness of the cosmos, that is, of the life and order of the universe
How will the aliens do this?
Advocates of these “prophecies” believe the “aliens” will provide humanity with advanced technology in every scientific field of study, and a philosophy of peace and tolerance that will unite all the people of the world into one global government, economic system, and everything will be replaced with peace and harmony. Hence the term given to these believers “New Agers”. Aliens will bring us a New Galactic Consciousness and Ascension!
This sounds good. It sounds right, and it sounds familiar. Consider the fact that religions like Christianity also have this theme. When Jesus returns, He will unite all the people of the world into one global government, economic system, and religion, War will be replaced with peace and harmony. Furthermore,there is no death, sorrow, or pain. All there will be are peace, love, and joy!
We can assume that any race capable of crossing interstellar space will be able to do anything we can do or even remotely contemplate doing. Any civilization capable of crossing interstellar space will probably be able to travel freely between planets, but it will still take a lot of energy and time. Getting to and landing on planets, and getting off again, will also be a significant effort. Terraforming planets will likewise take a lot of effort and, even more important, time.
So we’d have to assume that any Alien visitors coming to our solar system are coming for a specific reason, which might be to colonize, gather resources, or explore.
They certainly will have technology for observing planets around other stars, since we ourselves have begun to do it. If they have telescopes millions of kilometers apart flying in formation with their ships, they can combine the images to obtain the effective resolution of a telescope millions of kilometers in diameter. So quite likely they would have pretty good images of all the planets in our solar system.
If they pick up our radio and television signals, they’d probably know that there is at least that level of technology in our solar system. But based on the fact our transmissions have not been around that long would they be even close enough to hear them?
Then again, in zero gravity, there would be nothing to stop them from building a radio dish kilometers across in space or on their spacecrafts. We have to assume they are at least as good at cryptography as we are, so if they could pick up the information, they would likely be able to decipher it.
See Also http://ufoandalientruthnetwork.com/making-contact-with-aliens-what-if-we-transmit-the-internet-into-space/ for more about sending the internet into space via laser beams to speed up the time frame.
The yellow dot shows the 200 light year radius of how far radio waves have reached into the Milky Way since Marconi invented the radio in 1895.
(The even tinier Planet Earth buried somewhere in its center)
Resources
In the unlikely event they simply come here blind because they just picked a G-class star at random and didn’t do any reconnaissance on the way in, it’s very likely that they wouldn’t lightly pack up and go to another star, since interstellar travel will be resource and time intensive. And, of course, if they know what’s here, then they came here for a specific reason. But if their primary goal is resources, and they can travel easily between planets, there are much better sources than the Earth.
Water: Icy moons are every bit as convenient as Earth as sources of water. Comets are probably too small and widely scattered to be of much use, although a single comet can supply many cubic kilometers of water.
Metals: Nickel-iron asteroids can supply far more metal than our iron mines, with the added advantage that the smelting is mostly already done. Rarer metals can be extracted during the refining of nickel and iron, just as we do on Earth. Asteroids and comets have the added advantage of negligible gravity. Or our gold. (Hint: Asteroids have gold.)
Oxygen: Obtain it by electrolyzing water, or as a by-product of smelting silicates.
Hydrocarbons: Assuming they use hydrocarbons for some energy needs or a base for creating other organic chemicals, why drill on Earth when there’s a whole planet of it at Jupiter, and lakes of hydrocarbons on Titan?
Energy: Pave Mercury with solar panels, or simply build vast arrays in space. Use the harvested energy to fabricate still more panels, as well as whatever else you need.
If they come to our solar system to gather extraterrestrial resources, earth might be irrelevant to them, just like us going into the woods to pick berries is irrelevant to some bird nesting in a nearby tree. We are very unlikely to be a threat, or even a nuisance. Aww, isn’t that cute? We have itty-bitty nuclear weapons. They can travel between planets and we can’t go beyond earth orbit. They could strip-mine Mars and we’d be able to do little more than watch. We might launch robotic missions to watch them, and maybe pick up some useful ideas, assuming the aliens allow them to get close.
So Who Needs Earth?
There are a few reasons why extraterrestrial visitors might come specifically to Earth apart from curiosity or exchanging greetings:
Hydrothermal Ores: The problem with using the Moon or asteroids as sources of minerals is that a lot of our ores on earth involve water in some way. Copper, zinc and lead are mostly deposited by hot solutions. Aluminum is concentrated by weathering of aluminum rich rocks in tropical environments. Those deposits might make terrestrial sources more attractive than extraterrestrial ones.
Lithophile elements: Plate tectonics and geochemical recycling have made the earth’s interior more homogeneous and has concentrated certain elements in the crust. These tend to be atoms with large ionic radii, high ionic charges, or both. Things like lithium, beryllium, boron, uranium, thorium, cesium, and rare earths might be easier to extract from Earth rocks than asteroids. We now know that planets abound, but watery earth-like planets may not be.
Organic chemicals: If you want complex organic chemicals, it might be easier to harvest them from the biosphere rather than synthesize them from scratch. Maybe we have things they didn’t know about. This is interesting, there may be manmade things to explore not known to them- like – Cocaine, Alcohol, Tobacco and others!
Convenient Working Environment: If you’re an oxygen breather with human-like environmental needs, it may be a heck of a lot easier to land on Earth and do things than terraform Venus or build gigantic domes on the Moon.
R & R: No matter how big your starship is, even if it’s got huge living spaces, it has to get boring after a while. If they can survive on Earth, they’ll very likely want to come down for some breathing room and to see new scenery.
A Place to Live: Bad news. There have to be lots of Earth-like planets without intelligent life. After all, Earth was like that for over 99.9% of its history. So why pick Earth? Assuming they didn’t come here just because they enjoy destroying other intelligent life forms, something probably went very wrong. Either we’re the nearest Earthlike planet and they need it very badly, or they didn’t know we were here, or we’re so far below their level we don’t rate as intelligent.
If their life support is failing and there are twenty billion of them, we’re toast. But if there aren’t too many, and they’re willing to work with us, we could probably find some open spaces for them while they terraform Mars or Venus.
Encounter Scenarios:
They Come and Go: They come into the solar system, harvest a few comets and metal rich asteroids, suck hydrocarbons out of the Gas Giants, unfurl giant solar arrays to replenish their energy storage, and leave without contacting us at all. If this had happened even in 1900, we probably would have not even noticed it, but today we would. We’d certainly know we weren’t alone, but on the other hand we’d be more alone than ever, since there are races that travel among the stars and don’t even consider us worth contacting.
We are Superior: Forget this. They came here. We can’t go there. They will likely be ahead of us in everything. the only exception might be a District 9 scenario, where a small alien contingent arrives, either as refugees or because they had a catastrophic failure of their ship.
We’re OK, They’re OK (Star Trek): The best of all possible universes. But we’ll still be grossly inferior to them in technology. But they’ll treat us nice, and maybe let us share their stuff. That may not be a good thing. (Remember the t.v. series V)
They’re Not OK (War of the Worlds): We’re food, raw material, or an impediment. Maybe we can make ourselves enough of a nuisance that they leave us alone if we stay out of their way. On the other hand, with our industrial base gone, we’re back to rocks and sharp sticks pretty soon, and what kind of a fight can we put up then?
Maybe even benevolent aliens won’t be such a good thing after all? Even when advanced civilizations have encountered primitive ones on earth peacefully, the results have generally been rough on the primitive civilization.
Culture Shock
Then there’s the impact on our beliefs. If they have indisputably been around for millions of years, that pretty much demolishes a recent creation, right? Or maybe not. It’s very likely we’d see the rise of powerful movements denouncing the aliens as liars or hoaxers and demanding an end to contact with them. So instead of working with them we imprison, exile and treat them as enemies.
Finally, some humans will certainly interact more closely with the aliens than others. If the aliens aren’t careful, they can create such an economic disparity that humanity ends up becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Aliens, Inc.
Even on earth, anthropologists have noted there are clearly defined zones of influence around outposts of advanced civilizations. Some humans would be almost wholly assimilated. Others would find that proximity to alien knowledge gives them powerful advantages over less favored humans, either in trade or in the use of force.
That assumes that the aliens are benign or at least neutral. If they’re here to exploit us or at least get what they want without regard for us, then things will get a whole lot nastier. Because there will certainly be humans who will work for whatever rewards the aliens offer. They’ll strip-mine Chicago for the metals, in exchange for power or sex. Or they’ll act as overseers to keep the rest of us in line.
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