When we think Alien, what is the first thing that comes to mind? For most of us it is little green humanoids with enlarged heads and giant black eyes that come from Mars that abduct people in the southern states and probe them to learn more about us. For those of us who spend a lot of time watching the space network the first thing that might come to mind are spider like creatures that attach themselves to your face and forcefully plant a baby alien into your chest cavity so it can later break out and wreak havoc apon which ever planet or spaceship it happens to be on.
What ever representation we look at, there seems to be, like with humans, good aliens and bad aliens (or two groups of bad aliens fighting however one sees that humans are no threat so they ignore us completely or use us as fodder for the other bad aliens). So why are we trying to find them? There is a large chance that if we ever make contact with an alien civilization we can make two implications. One, they live in a technologically advanced society because they have the ability to recieve and translate our signals. Whether or not their society is more advanced would have to be left to furthur investigation. Then there is two, if their society is more advanced, their is a very high likelyhood that they will try to either exterminate Earth for their own use or enslave the population.
We could also live in peace and harmony but where is the fun in that?
I suppose what I am trying to say is that should we really be trying to find life out in space?
Even if the life is just some single celled organisms, who's to say they do not have parasitic properties or have the ability to divide at alarming rates and grow into something rediculous. Quite honestly I'd rather have a fist fight with a Predator (from the movie series Predator) then have to deal with some microbial life that infects and kills everything forever.
But then again everything has risks and finding other life could be very benificial. If we were to encounter a peaceful, more advanced society, there could be the mutual sharing of technology and resources and not to mention a new ally if a galactic war ever broke out. If we were to encounter a peaceful, less advanced society then we probably wouldn't have to worry because our only source of communication would be radio waves and neither us or them would be able to travel that far.
Now that I have listed my pros and cons of finding life, time to take a side....
Personally, I am in support of finding life. If they come and enslave us or kill us all then I suppose that would just suck.... A lot..... HOWEVER! If they were peaceful and advanced there is a possibility we could all eventually be walking around with lightsabers and jetpacks a lot sooner then expected. This would be awesome. (don't take this last paragraph to seriously, I am in a mood to reference space movies today)
To celebrate this post I made my own alien. His name is Monty.
-MrAstrowhat
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