I've been doing some thinking about contact between humans and extra-terrestrials. About how it might occur and what might happen. And what some of the difficulties may be.
In this thread:
Aliens Using Zoom?
I discussed how beings from two different planets cannot interact face-to-face as each party would have their own microbes to which the other would have zero resistance
Meetings would have to take place via video conferencing, or with both parties separated by an air-tight screen
But there are other factors too - for instance the composition of atmospheres. An extra-terrestrial may need to breath a different combination of gasses than what we need as their home planets may have different atmospheres. We have no idea what extra-terrestrials are supposed to breath.
A treadmill on the international space station
Also, gravity is a factor. A being from a low-G world would be weighed down and crushed if he or she were to land on a planet with higher gravity. Also, people from a high-G world would have to constantly work out and exercise if they were in a low-G world, to prevent their muscles wasting away. That is why astronauts in the international space station spend so much time exercising.
Also, radiation may be a factor. For all we know, Planet Earth could be highly irradiated by most standards, and therefore hostile to visitors from other planets.
So, basically, contact with ET would have to be through some kind of video conferencing
A still from the 2006 film Arrival - hazmat suits!
If humans and aliens were to meet face-to-face then both parties would have to wear sealed space-suits for their own protection.
That is why the film ET is realistic - in it the eponymous character potters around planet Earth freely with no protective suit but soon falls ill and almost dies. Whilst all the government scientists who monitoring him are wearing hazmat suits. But I think it would have been better and more realsitic if ET would have given the boy who takes him in (I think he's called Elliot??) some horrible and incurable disease which he then spread to other humans.
ET unwell
And that is why Star Wars is unrealistic. Look at the Galactic Senate! All the delegations from every member planet all sit about in a big open-aired room, freely sharing the same atmosphere and freely sharing their own microbes. And that goes for Star Trek too - Humans, Vulcans, and Klingons all freely mix. I don't think that's realistic.
There are therefore many limitations that would prevent humans from directly encountering aliens.
But what about those people who are supposedly abducted? I think if they truly are abducted then the beings doing the abducting would be wearing the equivalent of hazmat suits.
Androids cannot catch diseases
Final thought: Androids. Perhaps androids could be used to interact with aliens?
Androids don't need an atmosphere and they cannot catch diseases.
This is from my website/blog
Click here to have a look!
In this thread:
Aliens Using Zoom?
I discussed how beings from two different planets cannot interact face-to-face as each party would have their own microbes to which the other would have zero resistance
Meetings would have to take place via video conferencing, or with both parties separated by an air-tight screen
But there are other factors too - for instance the composition of atmospheres. An extra-terrestrial may need to breath a different combination of gasses than what we need as their home planets may have different atmospheres. We have no idea what extra-terrestrials are supposed to breath.
A treadmill on the international space station
Also, gravity is a factor. A being from a low-G world would be weighed down and crushed if he or she were to land on a planet with higher gravity. Also, people from a high-G world would have to constantly work out and exercise if they were in a low-G world, to prevent their muscles wasting away. That is why astronauts in the international space station spend so much time exercising.
Also, radiation may be a factor. For all we know, Planet Earth could be highly irradiated by most standards, and therefore hostile to visitors from other planets.
So, basically, contact with ET would have to be through some kind of video conferencing
A still from the 2006 film Arrival - hazmat suits!
If humans and aliens were to meet face-to-face then both parties would have to wear sealed space-suits for their own protection.
That is why the film ET is realistic - in it the eponymous character potters around planet Earth freely with no protective suit but soon falls ill and almost dies. Whilst all the government scientists who monitoring him are wearing hazmat suits. But I think it would have been better and more realsitic if ET would have given the boy who takes him in (I think he's called Elliot??) some horrible and incurable disease which he then spread to other humans.
ET unwell
And that is why Star Wars is unrealistic. Look at the Galactic Senate! All the delegations from every member planet all sit about in a big open-aired room, freely sharing the same atmosphere and freely sharing their own microbes. And that goes for Star Trek too - Humans, Vulcans, and Klingons all freely mix. I don't think that's realistic.
There are therefore many limitations that would prevent humans from directly encountering aliens.
But what about those people who are supposedly abducted? I think if they truly are abducted then the beings doing the abducting would be wearing the equivalent of hazmat suits.
Androids cannot catch diseases
Final thought: Androids. Perhaps androids could be used to interact with aliens?
Androids don't need an atmosphere and they cannot catch diseases.
This is from my website/blog
Click here to have a look!
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