From The Jerusalem Post: Former Israeli space security chief says aliens exist, humanity not ready
Has the State of Israel made contact with aliens?
According to retired Israeli general and current professor Haim Eshed, the answer is yes, but this has been kept a secret because “humanity isn’t ready.”
Speaking in an interview to Yediot Aharonot, Eshed – who served as the head of Israel’s space security program for nearly 30 years and is a three-time recipient of the Israel Security Award – explained that Israel and the US have both been dealing with aliens for years.
And this by no means refers to immigrants, with Eshed clarifying the existence of a “Galactic Federation.”
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You have to admit: It would explain a lot.Report
At least he clarified. Someone might have thought he meant illegal aliens and signed up.Report
Maybe we got ’em demoralized.Report
Perspective:
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I dunno. He was gonna nuke Iran but then changed his mind.Report
The hard part I have in believing that is that the aliens contact us. Surely we are not so interesting…just stupid mammals at the bring of immolating ourselves in war. Why waste their time. Wait 10 thousand years and see if we change.Report
Carl Sagan gave a great anecdote about talking to people who claimed to be in contact with aliens. He said that whenever he talked to them, he always gave two sets of questions.
The first set was sciencey stuff. How did you get here from there? There are time and distance problems but you seem to have managed to get here quickly on a scout-sized ship rather than a colony ship. Could you answer the following questions about how you got here so quickly?
The answers to these questions were always duds.
The second set of questions were touchy-feely crap. Should we love each other more? Should we abandon war? Should we abolish nuclear weapons?
The answers to these questions were always emphatic. Yes! We *SHOULD* love each other more! We should totally get rid of fighting entirely! ABOLISH THE BOMB!
I imagine that if I talked to someone who claimed to regularly have conversations with one of the various gods out there, I’d want to know some of the stuff that only the various gods would know.
As it is, I’m stuck learning about baby witches only who, apparently, share “co-consciousness” with various Greek deities and, apparently, Greek deities like going to Starbucks and enjoying iced lattes.
GET YOUR BUTT OVER TO THE LOCAL CLASSICS DEPARTMENT AND CLEAR UP SOME OF THE OPEN QUESTIONS ABOUT ANCIENT GREEK VERB CONJUGATION!!!!!Report
“Where did the angels come from?”
“Heaven! God!”
“What do they look like?”
“Sort of like people only different.”
“What do they want?”
“We should love each other and be kind and share everything and no more wars or pollution…”Report
I’m perfectly willing to believe that intelligent life, possibly more advanced than us, exists somewhere in the universe, but unless what we think we know about the physical laws governing the universe is wrong, they’re too far away to get here. Maybe they could have sent unmanned probes a century or two ago — though what would have alerted them to our presence in those pre-broadcast days? — and they have ended up here in recent decades, which would be remarkable enough, but hardly something that would need to be covered up.Report
I’m perfectly willing to believe that alien life exists out there somewhere. The mind blowing enormity of merely our own galaxy plus a simple sense of probability and the obvious fact of our own existence pretty much mandates it.
But space is so yawningly inconceivably vast and light only goes so fast. The idea of alien life coming here? Not impossible but so enormously improbable as to be virtually the same as impossible. How? Why? How? Why? How? Why?Report
Pretty sure this is a nonagenarian grudgematch somehow involving Buzz Aldrin.Report
I see no reason to think Aliens would be so subtle that we don’t know, but so un-subtle that “some” of us would know.
We’re terrible at keeping secrets. If they’re serious about staying hidden then they’d stay hidden. If they’re not then technology many thousands of years more advanced than ours would be obvious.Report
Are strippers going to weird news websites talking about Staff Sergeants trying to impress them with tales of the lizardmen? If not, I think we can reasonably conclude that we are alone in this corner of the universe.Report
If MiB taught me one thing…Report
I thought Douglas Adams already answered this:
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And Dolphins and Little White Mice are secretly running the world.Report
Just as long as we don’t turn out being like cows (or deer, or sport-fish) to the aliens, though I could imagine that happening. (“It’s a COOKBOOK!”)
I always figured life on other planets would be like bacteria or similar – pretty simple. I mean, most of the life here is bacteria and fungi. We’re kind of the oddball outlier, and generally evolution doesn’t “need” for life to be intelligent to survive.
Though I admit the angel idea is intriguing….what if they found an alien, and it was all eyes and wings, and yet could communicate with us, and started out every conversation with “fear not!”Report
Frederick Pohl’s couple-of-pages short story “Punch” where the aliens have given humans spaceships and weapons and all sorts of other technology. Some humans have taken one of the aliens along on a duck hunt. One of the humans says something like, “We don’t shoot sitting birds.” And the alien responds with, “Another bond between us! Neither do we.”Report