“Intelligence doesn’t always prevent us from making mistakes. Sometimes, even the brightest minds stumble.”
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If there is any truth to the notion that we Earthlings have recovered crashed alien spacecraft and gleaned technology from them, then, in my opinion, the aliens owe us. It was Colonel Phillip Corso in his book “The Day After Roswell” who told us that the United States Air Force had recovered technology from the crash of an alien spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico, and that the Air Force then undertook a program through the Pentagon´s Foreign Technology Division to integrate that technology into our own by seeding it to American industry and allowing various companies to develop those technologies free of their alien pedigrees. According to Corso´s book, the technologies we recovered from Roswell and other alleged crashes included things like night vision, fiber optics, multilayer materials like Kevlar, and most importantly: integrated circuits. Who can argue that the integrated circuit – now only 70 years old, has altered human existence in such an astonishing manner that it is rivaled only by biological evolution in its profundity?
More recently, Pentagon whistleblower David Grusch testified before Congress that the United States has recovered as many as nine crashed alien spacecraft with pilots. Moreover, it’s been revealed that the CIA has an ongoing program to retrieve crashed UFOs and pass them on to private corporations for analysis and back engineering. That’s sure to work out in all of our best interests.
Anyone familiar with the issue of UFOs and their alleged extraterrestrial origins is also familiar with the popular notion that there may be a “Galactic Federation” out there that won’t let us in until we evolve spiritually enough to control our run-amok technology. If all of this is true and we have recovered alien technology that has been reverse-engineered and integrated into our own, have we not been negligently contaminated? Perhaps, if we had not been so unduly influenced, we would not presently find ourselves on the precipice of our destruction. Perhaps we´d be right where we´re supposed to be in the scheme of things.
Some of you Trekkies, or ‘Trekkers’ for the purists, out there may remember the Star Trek episode “A Piece of the Action.” In that episode, Captain Kirk and his hapless crew travel to the distant planet “Sigma Iotia II,” 100 years after a visit from the Federation starship “U.S.S. Horizon.” What they find is astonishing. Some bumbling fool on the Horizon left a book behind—a book about gangsters in 1930s Chicago. Within the short span of 100 years, the highly intelligent and imitative Laotians had based their entire culture on “The Book”. Captain Kirk discovers that the entire planet is now governed by rival Capone-style gangs vying for a bigger “Piece of the Action” with gangster-style “hits”—Tommy guns and all. So, you see the point. If some alien species has stupidly or, heaven forbid, purposefully placed their technology here, then do they not bear responsibility for the consequences?
It would be difficult to argue that, if we have taken possession of and assimilated alien technology, the resulting transformation of our planet has been anything short of “apocalyptic” in magnitude. To me, as a lawyer, that is gross negligence. On the one hand, we tend to think of these visitors, wherever they may come from, as being highly intelligent, much smarter than we could ever hope to be as lowly humans. On the other hand, one could easily reach the opposite view that the visitors are either just as stupid as we are or, at the very least, have not thoroughly thought things through. Of course, they could simply not care at all. Our species has a legitimate claim for damage caused by the negligent acts of any number of alien civilizations, whether they come from another planet, another reality, or our own oceans. It seems absurd that humanity should be prematurely exposed to certain fundamentally transformational technologies by a yet-to-be-identified other, only to be excluded from the visitors’ exclusive, galactic club because we haven´t grown spiritually enough to handle the technology they carelessly dumped on us.
Michio Kaku was asked why aliens don´t simply land on the White House lawn and announce their presence to the world. In his answer, he likened humans to a colony of ants on the side of the highway. One would not expect that advanced aliens traveling down the highway would bother to stop and talk to the ants on the side of the road, much less establish diplomatic relations with them, or gift them with some revolutionary technology—like nuclear energy. Why would aliens that advanced even care about us enough to stop by? We must ask ourselves what an advanced alien civilization might think about a colony of ants that manages to replicate technologies they obtain by studying one of their crashed vehicles. Wouldn´t we as humans be concerned about a colony of ants that managed to do something as relatively simple as duplicate any of the materials found in common car tires merely by studying a wrecked automobile left in the desert? How would we react if we went into the deep desert one day and found a colony of ants flying around in little airplanes and driving little cars?
I do not believe that any intelligent species, no matter how advanced they may be, would not be scientifically interested in humanity on some level. Take Dr. Kaku´s example of the aliens, the highway, and the ants. I would agree that most aliens would simply ignore us as they go about their business because they have more important things to do. But even we busy human beings flying down the highway in our Fords, Hyundais, and Porsches have scientists who study insects. They are called entomologists. There are even entomologists who restrict their studies to specific species of ants. That´s why we know so much about ants because some entomologist somewhere sits around all day long observing and studying ants.
Back to the original point: what happens when the observer inadvertently, or purposefully, interjects themselves into the experiment? What happens when the observer provides the ants with the means to destroy themselves, or at least, makes such a thing more possible or likely? If there is some universal morality that applies here, irrespective of dogmatic or religious implications, don´t the observers bear some responsibility for the predicaments they create for the observed when that predicament may just destroy the entire species? More to the point: don´t the aliens owe us something for their ham-handed bumbling? They may be millions of years ahead of us technologically, but, if they´re crashing here as often as we are led to believe, they can´t be that bright.
Let´s put it in another context. Let´s say Michio Kaku rams his limo into the back of some poor fellow’s 1982 Dodge pickup truck and paralyzes him from the neck down. The victim may not have the mental capacity to understand Professor Kaku’s equation-laden explanation for the physics underlying the crash, because, let´s face it, Dr. Kaku is likely considerably more intelligent than the poor fellow in the pickup. Nonetheless, even as a comparative moron, the common pickup driver can still sue Dr. Kaku because, instead of paying attention to the road, he´s pondering the origins of the universe while weaving all over the highway with his foot on the gas.
As a representative of the Earth, I would ask the visitors for some assurance that they will assist us in the event we get too close to self-annihilation. Stay out of our affairs as best you can, but do not allow your untimely and negligently delivered technology to serve as the instrument of our destruction. The next thing I would ask is for individual counseling for every human being on the planet to help each of them deal with the emotional aftermath of learning about the ‘alien’ presence. We are not just talking about getting bad news here. We are talking about the simultaneous and complete restructuring of the ego of every human on the planet. The outcome of such a revelation cannot be predicted.
Perhaps humans are not so stupid after all. Perhaps all that separates us from the visitors is knowledge and understanding. It may be that this is frightening to them. We may be monkeys barely poking our noses out of the jungle, but we are packing nuclear weapons, baby. Those weapons and the systems that control them have come about as a direct result of grossly negligent alien intervention. The visitors need to step up and pay the piper.
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