The ET Law.

[Starshine]

FEDERAL ET LAW

Its puzzling, for a government to deny existence of an Alien race or being, yet have on the books, a law that punishes anyone from having contact with such "Non-Existent" beings.

What's your thoughts on this?

 

[bigguy]

Isn't that amazing. I figure someone was drunk the day they made that law, lol.

 

[Starshine]

Just that day? Aren't most US congress person that way all the time?
Look at all the time it takes them to do anything. If you want Cspan sometimes - you see one of the two chambers - and very few people making any decisions ... although something is going on that needs a vote or a voice, and yet they are not there. ( Maybe at most 10 ... and they are all chatting with each other )

 

[halohalo]

I learned from a boss at a former job that one of the first rules of management is that when deciding what to do in a given situation, "doing nothing" is always a choice. And that's what he did 90% of the time. When a decision came to do something, he chose "none of the above". It was safe. He didn't have the risk of choosing to do something that would get him into trouble or potential backlashes later on...

So if there was a chance to upgrade or improve a system at our company (I am a techie guy) he would choose to do nothing and stay with the status quo... even if there were alternatives out there that were vastly "better" or at least "improved"...

I personally think the tactic is stupid but this is the type of thing that he was taught in his MBA program at xyz university. Modern management techniques 101... do nothing... sheesh.

So that's what our leaders in congress do all day. Avoiding pressing decisions that need to be made. Ride the status quo. If a decision yields a net benefit (happy constituents) then they consider the possiblity of voting, but otherwise stay silent and uncounted. Modern politics. Arrrgh.

 

[Spartan Erik]

Haha I don't concern myself too much about government conspiracies. I figure that if there are plenty of planets that are just as inhabitable as Earth's, there's bound to be some alien race.

I personally believe the only reason we reached the transistor age of technology is because we reverse engineered alien technology in the form of crashed UFOs; if you looked at the stuff we had prior to that solid state age, there's absolutely no way we could've made that jump that quickly on our own

 

[slimjim316]

I personally believe the only reason we reached the transistor age of technology is because we reverse engineered alien technology in the form of crashed UFOs; if you looked at the stuff we had prior to that solid state age, there's absolutely no way we could've made that jump that quickly on our own

Someone's been watching Transformers recently.

Chances are there is some life in the universe, but highly unrealistic movies and video games are what really matter.

 

[cointoss]

I have to agree. If you look at 99% of technology on Earth, it models some aspect of nature. Heck, you can almost tell which animal the science came from, because the end result favors them (ie: planes/birds).

Thus, I would say for us to create technology related "space" we must have found something to help us along.

 

[Starshine]

Haha I don't concern myself too much about government conspiracies. I figure that if there are plenty of planets that are just as inhabitable as Earth's, there's bound to be some alien race.

I personally believe the only reason we reached the transistor age of technology is because we reverse engineered alien technology in the form of crashed UFOs; if you looked at the stuff we had prior to that solid state age, there's absolutely no way we could've made that jump that quickly on our own

Thats a good point. Tracing history and trying to solve how we, as humans, learned how to create X product with the knowledge we had at the time.

Take into consideration the Roswell crash. What major technology came a few years after the crash? ... Anything of interest?

 

[Rolyin]

Well I suppose for there to be a law about it then the government must atleast have some evidenvce of a posibility of ET on earth or somewhere Americans have been....

 

[Starshine]

Well I suppose for there to be a law about it then the government must atleast have some evidenvce of a posibility of ET on earth or somewhere Americans have been....

See, thats what I was thinking. Why create a law if whatever they are protecting, doesn't truly exist? I mean, is this to just ease the minds of those ET watchers or to cover the asses of those in charge in case ET really does exist?

 

[faolan]

Well, to be honest they probably wrote the law as a 'just in case' measure. The government doesn't truly have a stance on whether they exist or not, just whether we have been visited/contacted or not.

The argument for existance goes back to, as we probably all know, the Drake equation, which is pretty much a long string of variables. Depending on how one choses to fill in the variables gives you the number of possible civilzations out there. Ultimately you either get large multitudes, or practically none at all (I tend to wind up with the multitudes.. but I'm a SF writer).

Also, if even the remotest possiblity exists, then the government will make a law for it... proof or no. They want to have the control over the contact so that (hopefully) no diplomatic missteps are made. I mean, could you imagine some redneck blowing some extraterrestrial visitor away because he 'mashed mah 'shine still'?

Talk about your interstellar incidents!