Yesterday 09:47 PM
(This post was last modified: Yesterday 10:04 PM by Magical Realist.)
Whoever they are, they've been haunting our skies and nuclear plants and farmers' fields since the 1940's. They've been witnessed in flying contraptions as lit up as discos trying to show us they are here. They've had playful dogfights with Navy pilots, glided over cities at night in huge underlit triangles, been spotted by astronauts in space, and have firmly embedded themselves into global human culture for decades now. So what are they waiting for? Why not just go ahead and make contact?
One reason they have been waiting IMO is that they needed the extention of a global electronic media to get their message thru. Something that bypasses altogether the television news media which nightly fixates on mundane status quo stories. And now we have it in the form of the Internet and social media. Now they can introduce themselves on a global scale to us simultaneously with all the fanfare of a history-changing event. They're not waiting for the governments to disclose their existence. They don't need them anymore. They now have an audience of billions all over our planet, starving for any sign of anything from out of this boring world. The people are primed and ready and have had decades to get used to their presence. So let's see what happens.
The question we should be asking now is: "What will a post-contact world look like?"
One reason they have been waiting IMO is that they needed the extention of a global electronic media to get their message thru. Something that bypasses altogether the television news media which nightly fixates on mundane status quo stories. And now we have it in the form of the Internet and social media. Now they can introduce themselves on a global scale to us simultaneously with all the fanfare of a history-changing event. They're not waiting for the governments to disclose their existence. They don't need them anymore. They now have an audience of billions all over our planet, starving for any sign of anything from out of this boring world. The people are primed and ready and have had decades to get used to their presence. So let's see what happens.
The question we should be asking now is: "What will a post-contact world look like?"
