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Scientists take ETs seriously – and the media skews their proceedings

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More and more things in the media have to do with contact with other intelligences. If you’ve seen my movie and you track my posts you’ve been exposed to a lot of it. What is going on? As I ask in my film, “Are we being prepared for contact?”

The latest has to do with the prestigious Royal Society, in England, “a Fellowship of the world’s most eminent scientists that is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.”

This is from The Guardian, a mainstream British paper:

Earth must prepare for close encounter with aliens, say scientists

UN should co-ordinate plans for dealing with extraterrestrials – and we can’t guarantee that aliens will be friendly
An alien from Mars Attacks!

Evolution on alien worlds is likely to be Darwinian, which may mean extraterrestrials share our tendencies for violence and exploitation. Photograph: Rex

Here’s how the newspaper article starts:

World governments should prepare a co-ordinated action plan in case Earth is contacted by aliens, according to scientists.

They argue that a branch of the UN must be given responsibility for “supra-Earth affairs” and formulate a plan for how to deal with extraterrestrials, should they appear.

The comments are part of an extraterrestrial-themed edition of The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society published today. In it, scientists examine all aspects of the search for extraterrestrial life, from astronomy and biology to the political and religious fallout that would result from alien contact.

This publication is a fascinating compendium of serious papers that were presented at a meeting of the Royal Society in October entitled, “Towards a scientific and societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life.” Here are a few titles:

That they held this meeting is mind-blowing. But also of interest is how the newspaper handled it. You’ve seen the headline about aliens possibly not being friendly. That was the subject of only one of the 17 papers presented at the meeting. The newspaper piece used 4 of its 12 paragraphs to deal with that one: Predicting what extra-terrestrials will be like: and preparing for the worst.

This skew picks up on a thread running through the amped up stream of ET buzzing which most notably includes the scare put out by Stephen Hawking.

From “Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking”:

…a few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Hawking believes that contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity.
He suggests that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on: “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.”
He concludes that trying to make contact with alien races is “a little too risky”. He said: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.
With us knowing nada about “them,” there was lots of flap over Hawking pulling that opinion out of thin air and arbitrarily putting the world on a fear setting. Then again, this is the stuff that appeals to the news media, and thus his opinions got widespread coverage. So, as my colleagues in matters extraterrestrial say, the fact that Hawking was dealing with the possibility of ET life was a step forward — like Signs, the movie, pointing to scary aliens as the source of crop circles, where a lot more people found out from that movie about the very existence of the circles and it also was good in that they weren’t attributing them to hoaxers. Two steps forward, one step back.
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7 thoughts on “Scientists take ETs seriously – and the media skews their proceedings”

  1. Peter has it right. For those of us who have a clue, must spread the word because there are many that are receptive to this reality. I am not going to hold my breath waiting for disclosure. One may not be compelled to tell their own kids, if they knew the whole story. The “Prime Directive” from Star Trek is something we practice ourselves. When a young mother gives up her child for adoption she isn’t allowed to drop into the foster home and announce that she is the real mother — could be traumatic!

    1. Come on, let’s tell our kids. They’ve had enough science fiction to be able to handle it. But I see the prime directive as a lovely bypass of the dualistic thinking where we clobber one another, and the wise circlemakers instead give us clues — like I talk about in my movie — so that we can figure out what’s going on for ourselves. Then we own it in a more profound way than if we were hit over the head with it.

  2. As a student of the ET and UFO enigma for over 50 years, I wish I could fully subscribe to what Peter stated on 1/25 in his comment. He makes it all sound good and positive for humanity. I feel there are some very negative entities around and before we rush to embrace all the visitors we should be fully aware as to what each type wants. I have always wondered why the U.S. Government has taken a leadership role in keeping the topic from the masses. Could it be that they know something such as Dr. Hawking has mentioned? Time will certainly tell….

    1. It’s perhaps a jungle out there and who knows what’s in it, but the most definitive thing re what you’ve said is that time will tell.

  3. Beings from other worlds (across the seas of TimeSpace) are already here. Fact. Some of us already know this. It really doesn’t matter what the officials think, believe or do. The dialogue is in process right now, directly with those that are open. In this Aquarian age we no longer give our power away to a heirachical authoritarian system. Soon, all will see for themselves and be truly free. Fear not. All is well. The evolved intelligence is well educated in Universal Law, and conciously co-creates with full awareness of consequence.

  4. Without doubt this is a physical enigma that could be caused by physical, supernatural, dimensional, or by an unknown means of our collective consciousness. Just like stone circles, pyramids, and other formations the circles appear world wide. It’s more of a wonder how these popped up early in history with little or no contact between different civilizations and continents. But they’re here so there will be no shortage of those trying to decipher them. I believe through a program on my computer when I input these symbols I get mathematical equations. I’m working on a book with several other theories but my math skills are limited. I believe these symbols include universal equations, or possible algorithms, that possibly answer some of the many questions we have. Possibly even information on fuel sources like fusion etc. If anyone would like to collaborate on this with me I can be contacted at allthingsunknown@hotmail.com

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