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In reply to the discussion: Navy Pilots Report Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects Over East Coast: NYT [View all]tymorial
(3,433 posts)12. Cultural anthropology perhaps
The scientific community often proposes your hypothesis as the likely if not only reason extraterrestrials would visit us. Aliens sufficiently advanced to achieve Interstellar travel would only seek resources. Yet, do we not study native tribes and is our technology not vastly superior compared to uncontacted peoples?
Why is it that aliens could not be anthropologists looking to study the society and culture of intelligent alien life?
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Navy Pilots Report Seeing Unidentified Flying Objects Over East Coast: NYT [View all]
babylonsister
May 2019
OP
When Gort shows up, "Klaatu barada nikto" a couple of times should do the trick.
yonder
May 2019
#33
The prevalence of drones makes it almost impossible to ferret out real UFO sightings
yaesu
May 2019
#5
Why would a starfaring civilization want resources trapped all the way down a gravity well...
Salviati
May 2019
#10