Today is an exciting day and I am very excited to post up my first ever blog about extraterrestrials for my Extraterrestrial Communication blog site. We call ourselves the Extraterrestrial Communication Group.
As we begin to discuss this topic, I think it’s appropriate to first get our heads around what an extraterrestrial might look like and what their behavior and demeanor might be like. What can we expect? The answer is that we can expect anything and everything a person’s imagination can cook-up. The possibilities are without bounds.
My guess is that communication with an extraterrestrial species will be from a planet that will have a diversity of cultures within that planet that may look similar but with regional differences much like the diversity of humans on earth. I would also expect that these aliens live on a planet that has many different creatures and plant types much as we do on earth. They surely must have homes where they raise their children, prepare meals and sleep. They probably go to school and have jobs. They will have a societal structure, system of government, play games, laugh, cry and have and do all of the types of things we do here on earth. This not to imply that they will be like the human animal. I would expect they survive in a different planetary ecological environment and as such; the diversity of plants and animals would be there but would probably be very different than the plants and animals of earth.
The day is coming soon when contact and communication will be established and perhaps even become common. I hope that happens while I’m still alive to be part of that very exciting possibility coming true. In the same way humans, and all animals really, are threatened and afraid of things that they do not understand – extraterrestrials probably have those same survival instincts.
When the day of communication with extraterrestrials happens, I’m sure we will be afraid and will take a cautiously optimistic approach to growing a relationship with them. They will probably do the same thing.
My favorite president has always been Theodore Roosevelt. There are many reasons for this but one of the most important is his “big stick” foreign diplomacy policy – “speak softly and carry a big stick”. He coined the phrase “Big Stick diplomacy” at a State fair in Minnesota in 1901. He then demonstrated to the world what USA’s big stick looked like by showcasing America’s naval fleet (the “great white fleet”) all over the globe. Roosevelt applied his “big stick” diplomacy tactics in numerous important foreign diplomacy situations including:
- Making a USA favorable agreement for the construction of the Panama Canal
- Increased American influence over Cuba
- The creation of a peace treaty between Russia and Japan. This effort won Roosevelt a 1906 Nobel Peace Prize.
Big Stick is a fairly self-explanatory policy and has been proven to be an effective approach to international diplomacy for the U.S. Government (and others) over the years. What that means in the context of extraterrestrial communication is that we will need to have an open mind when we finally communicate with extraterrestrials but we must also be prepared to defend ourselves if our new found friends are not so friendly.
Humans would seem to be at a serious disadvantage in the Big Stick game. If the extraterrestrials are not friendly there is probably not much, if anything, we can effectively do about it. Hopefully they will take a “big stick” approach with us. I imagine their stick will be bigger than ours. That being said; I choose to be optimistic about the inevitable encounter. We are probably not much of a threat to extraterrestrials coming to earth so maybe they will work with us in a peaceful way for the betterment and preservation of humanity and our fragile earth environment. An optimist designed the airplane but a pessimist invented the parachute.
What would I do if I actually met an alien and we could talk to each other? I think that after all the weirdness settled down; the first question I would ask my new alien friend is if he (or she or it) or any of their kind believe in God. The overwhelming majority human cultures that exist now or have existed in the ancient past all over the earth believe or believed that their ancestry and culture began with some level of assistance or the full creation of their people by a deity or multiple deities. Humans have historically gone to war and persecuted people in a most horrible and painful manner over disagreements on the subject of religious beliefs. We still do that to this day. I wonder what “people” from other planets and galaxies think about that concept.
Can you imagine the implications if the alien told a story of religious belief that was consistent with that of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hindu or any other earthly religious faith? Maybe they have something completely different or perhaps nothing at all.
Extraterrestrial communication impact on religious philosophies will be the subject of my next blog – unless I change my mind first.
I look forward to any comments and opinions you might like to share with us here at the Extraterrestrial Communication Group. Thanks for dropping by.
Stephen J. Silva