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Dear Aliens

by thatgerhard on 7/26/23, 3:52 PM with 77 comments

  • by jedberg on 7/26/23, 4:46 PM

    So I haven't been keeping up on the aliens story, but I've seen a lot of posts on reddit about it lately. I know there is a hearing today. Does anyone have a good summary that isn't a conspiracy website?

  • by bovermyer on 7/26/23, 4:46 PM

    If sentient aliens are out there watching us, I would not be surprised if they're gathered around their equivalent of a TV with their equivalent of strong beer, watching our world and making bets on whether we survive this century or not.

  • by LandR on 7/26/23, 4:57 PM

    I want to know how they apparently have advanced tech that allows them to travel the vast distances of space, and if certain people are to be believed, have crafts capable of astonishing maneuvers we can't match... Yet, they crash all the time...

  • by ccity88 on 7/26/23, 4:41 PM

    I know this is a joke, but can we for a second take a step back to marvel at how we're now watching US Congressional hearings about UAP's, where the word "Aliens" and "Extra-terrestrial life" was mentioned several times? I feel like I'm living through the beginning of a sci-fi movie.

    More to the point, why is it always people in the US that have credible or semi credible (or for that matter ANY) evidence of UAP's, UFO's etc? The earth is a big place, why is it always the US they choose to visit? Is Botswana not good enough? Is Europe not technologically advanced enough? Does South America not send the right message?

  • by sschueller on 7/26/23, 5:58 PM

    What I would like to see at these hearings aren't airmen or military officials giving their "opinion".

    Instead I would like engineers from Raytheon and Northrop Grumman etc. who build these sensors system to tell congress what they are seeing. From a duck flying at mach whatever over the surface of the sea due to parallax to the triangular night vision system iris. Explain to the laymen who think they saw an UFO what they really saw.

  • by jadbox on 7/26/23, 4:51 PM

    > "Have we evolved naturally or was there intervention as a start or somewhere along the way?"

    I loved the letter, but I just quibble on this sentence from my own perspective. It seems to me that concepts like "natural" and "intervention" are almost meaningless to ask. What is "unnatural" to an alien? What kind of matter/energy system can be explained as an "intervention"?

  • by paulette449 on 7/26/23, 5:13 PM

    This may sound weird but I really don't understand the desire to seek and make contact with alien species.

    Humanity is the alpha species on Earth and we slaughter billions of animals a year to feed our appetites, regardless of the animal's relative intelligence or ability to provide companionship to us.

    Why do we expect a more intelligent alien species to look upon us any differently to how we look upon a cow/sheep/horse/dog/lobster/octopus and every other species eaten by humanity.

  • by soneca on 7/26/23, 4:52 PM

    If the aliens wanted to communicate with all humanity, which channel do you think they should use?

    Assuming they know all about humanity, the way we communicate, all the languages, etc

  • by Loveaway on 7/26/23, 4:49 PM

    Dear human. We know. All of it. Always have. The things you are concerned about are not yours to solve. Why are you asking for an energy source, do you not have enough energy, how are you writing your blog? Don't be silly. You want better propulsion fuels? That is what you came here to ask for? Or maybe your problem is that you have none?

  • by sneak on 7/26/23, 5:08 PM

    > However, we’re now in a situation where the total number of people on Earth, combined with our current economic systems, is seriously straining our resources and affecting the quality of life for most people.

    This is true, but not in the way they mean it - it is affecting the quality of life way upward for most people.

  • by HocusLocus on 7/27/23, 2:17 AM

    Another earnest attempt to contact that was broadcast on Earth radio in 1976.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBV0EoJJY8&t=6s

    God I miss her, taken so young.

  • by detritus on 7/26/23, 4:55 PM

    If aliens do exist and are in our vicinity, they absolutely have access to every digitally-transcribed mote of data or communication, should they wish.

    I kind of view this as a bit of a problem: If it is so, presumably they have orders of magnitude more capacity for control and amendment and could have very plausibly been editing every last bit of digital data we've relied upon over the last 70+ years. They could well have been re-writing our entire view of the universe.

    We need an order of Analogue Eternally-watching Monks we rely upon to fact-check basic assumptions using entirely non-digital means. Which could get complicated.

  • by dangitnotagain on 7/26/23, 7:45 PM

    Offering of your gratuitous craze.

    These “Aliens” who have been hanging out in under and around Earth for 10,000 years would like for me to share a short account I have written.

    Treachery divides us, friends. The Truth is Man is savage and beastial, when not meddlesome scamps. The consequences and when these catch up to us are the real mystery.

    An account of the “greys” (and the secret war among Man.)

    https://pastebin.com/42dTemNe

  • by MongoTheMad on 7/26/23, 5:16 PM

    What if the UAPs are all failed time travel devices?

  • by RajT88 on 7/26/23, 4:50 PM

    I hope he shares his analysis of his server logs!