CrawdiddyJones wrote:
Ancient Aliens is meant to be laughed at, otherwise the History channel would not make it and take it seriously. I believe in aliens, however even I laugh at the "scientific" attempts to persuade that these are alien artifacts. If aliens exist, they would probably be as arrogant as humans, and if contact were made, we would all be dead. Even if they came in peace, we all know how columbus and smallpox went down.
If aliens exist and are not technologically superior to us, but we to them, then what if we develop interstellar travel first and find them first? There are certainly shows like SG1 and movies like Avatar which portray extraterrestrials as native Americans and Minoans and Egyptians and every other past culture and civilization on Earth just about, but often enough we seem to not only blindly assume the existence of aliens but also their superiority. Let's assume here that there are sentient extraterrestrials who understand or can understand mathematics and science if they bothered to try, who's to say that they would? Science was stillborn in Greece here and if it weren't for key people who cared about honesty and about the nature of truth back in the 1500's through the 1800's we'd probably have had the death of science for a second time around. Why should these conjectured aliens have even gotten as far as that? Because "they're aliens" and thereby they are also assumed to be more advanced because they are alien? You mention Columbus and smallpox, and yet did smallpox lead to an intentional biological genocide? If aliens exist, who is to say that they'd even have dioxyribonucleic acid? They could have completely different cellular biology if not completely different biochemical processes. If they were on the other side of the galaxy and were identical to us though, that would have implications for a common Designer though.