El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "I'm convinced that PR park is an attraction for > aliens" > > To be ever so briefly, and hypothetically > rational, just for a second like, I do wonder why > an intelligent species that had managed not to > destroy itself on the path to supra-light travel, > given the incredible advantages of technology they > would have over us, the potential benefits to us > if they were benign, the awful consequences for us > if they were not, would be so coy yet indiscreet > about their presence. > > Given the huge sums a civilisation would have to > invest in these awesome machines able to somehow > go beyond the known physical laws and travel vast > distances in the blink of an eye, and given our > own touristic proclivities that tend to nice > weather, amazing natural phenomena, good food, > good company and the like, why (oh why) would they > choose to undertake these great journies to potter > about in their small glowing craft above Peckham > Rye. > > Is it some intestellar cottaging/dogging spot > perhaps? > Maybe SETI should be pointing inward to some alien > corner of grindr. Greenr perhaps? The problem with this post is you imagine aliens think like you. They probably have a way of thinking completely alien to you. If you were to walk across a trail of ants and stopped to pick your nose, do you think the ants would wonder why you bothered them? They might but you might be blissfully unaware of them or not as the case may be. Either way it wouldn't matter.