There are numerous motivations why E.T. may be thinking about our little patch of property – Planet Earth. Scientists thinking about that issue, not to mention vastly more sci-fi authors and Hollywood producers, have given a relatively good considerable though to the question.
Diplomatic – The “Take Me for your Leader” Scenario: When the UFO extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) is correct then obviously the ‘land about the White House lawn with a take-me-to-your-leader’ scenario will be the obvious strategy for E.T. Translated, E.T. wants to not only establish diplomatic relations, but probably engage in interstellar trade as well. That hasn’t happened over six decades on; therefore the UFO ETH is ridiculous.
A clear response to that is we humans don’t come up to a flock of crows (rather intelligent birds incidentally) or introduce ourselves for an octopus (invertebrate intelligences themselves) with a wave and a handshake (wing-shake; tentacle-shake) plus a hi-ho “take me to your leader” or “let’s establish diplomatic and trade relations”.
By the way, why is the most obvious landing site the White House lawn? Why don’t you outside the walls of the Kremlin, or inside the Forbidden City, or that matter on Easter Island, the lawns beyond Australia’s Parliament House, or perhaps in nice sunny Bermuda?
Conquest – The ‘War of the Worlds’ Scenario: According to hundreds (probably thousands) of sci-fi writers and of course Hollywood (and Hollywood equivalents around the world), alien invasion is a more viable and realistic scenario – as entertainment anyway. But that hasn’t happened either, but that is no argument to suggest that due to there being been no alien invasion that UFOs can not be alien technology. The U.S.A. hasn’t invaded Canada anytime lately and America has appropriate technology to do this whether it wanted. Still, UFO skeptics who believe in the ‘Mars Wants Women’ scenario, say E.T. isn’t here because E.T. isn’t today our Imperial Leader Most High – our Global Head of State (Universal President, Master-of-the-World, Pm Supreme for Life, or our Lord-on-High World Dictator; whatever).
The obvious response to the lack of any invasion scenario is that E.T. could find whatever it wanted in terms of resources closer and far cheaper by base. So what can Earth offer that couldn’t be had nearer to home at much less time and expense? – Certainly not water, or minerals or energy or real estate. If there is one end-of-the-world scenario that people do not have to lose sleep over, it’s invasion and conquest by extraterrestrials. That’s unless you ought to claim that E.T. will invade and conquer; rape and pillage only for the sake of invasion and conquest; rape and pillage. Maybe, but red carpet plus decades, E.T. is either rather unclear about itself or undecided about the merits of doing so. So, my prediction is that if it hasn’t happened by now, it’s not likely to.
That leaves other motives – scientific, economic, etc. Let’s examine human equivalents. Humans have explored ever since we’d a chance to explore. We’ve boldly gone, in person or via machine surrogates, to the depths of the ocean, to Antarctica, towards the Moon, and to all the planets (actual, or in the situation of Pluto, on route). All this exploration for all practical purposes continues to be with regard to just science, pure science, and nothing but the science.
Of course there’s usually an ulterior motive in the back of the mind – exploration results in exploitation. We explore, we like what we should see, we colonize, we exploit, we build resorts for R&R, we migrate to flee various forms of environmental/political pressures, we mine for resources, and that we farm for food and do more besides. Today the Moon is perfect for science; tomorrow we might exploit its resources. Why should the E.T.-Earth relationship be any different? Well I’ve already noted that after you are looking at resources and exploitation of these commodities, Earth has relatively little to offer when looked at in the point of view of affordability. I mean you do not go clear across country to get some bread you can find at the local supermarket several blocks down the road. But, when it comes to holidays, humans don’t always take the cheapest option. When planning that round-the-world trip, cost effectiveness isn’t an issue, or else you could just surf the world via the Internet as virtual reality from the comfort of your living room.
Tourism – The R&R Scenario: As being a rather nice sort of planet, perhaps one or more of our cosmic visitors in the distant past chose to set up shop on the planet, either as a place for a short R&R (maybe they thought Mount Olympus, Mount Meru or even the high Andes might make a nice resort location) or perhaps a ‘permanent’ home-away-from-home. Perhaps Planet Earth was colonized by extraterrestrials well before humans were wanted to be in anyone’s philosophy.
Going with that flow, E.T. might have had no moral or ethical qualms about using The world as an R&R resort and/or base of operations way back then. There is no intelligent life and indigenous civilization already present – the Prime Directive (assuming such a concept is real instead of the fictional “Star Trek” concept) would not apply.
So our advanced extraterrestrials setup shop in the world being an R&R home-away-from-home, kind of taking dominion over this paradise / nature reserve / national park, perhaps having a view towards eventual long-term colonization. Go forward to today; once an R&R spot, always an R&R spot. And Mount Olympus certainly beats L.A. or Tokyo or Calcutta like a resort in case your one of those extraterrestrial ‘gods’.
Science – The Curiosity Scenario: Visitations to The world whether they be 4.5 billion years ago; 450 million years back, 45 million years ago, or 4.5 million years back, probably were scientific expeditions – aliens exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life forms and new civilizations. We’re cosmically interesting real estate because you will find there’s biosphere, and presumably planets with biospheres are relative rare in cosmic real estate terms. So, alien biologists is going to be rubbing their tentacles in glee when they reach explore a brand new biosphere. So once they have explored our strange new world and our new (if still primitive) life forms, then what? I suggest that initial random visits (as calculated by professional astronomers and physicists inside the ballpark of 1 per 10,000 to 100,000 years) will result in ongoing and ever more frequent and routine examinations. Perhaps science eventually means more commercial areas. Science finds the time; business exploits them. Perhaps we (Planet Earth) are exploitable, not when it comes to commodities like minerals, but as biological commodities. Those won’t be nearer to their house since terrestrial biology is presumably only found terrestrially. Terrestrial life might be purely interesting in the manner an ant colony is to an entomologist; it may be practically interesting in that, as we have discovered, biological organisms contain all sorts of valuable pharmacological chemicals. Presumably if E.T. biochemistry is similar to ours, perhaps some drug from our magic mushrooms might cure their cancer.
Let me think that their agenda, the alien’s motive for being here’s science, a minimum of first and foremost. As noted above, The world is actually interesting property in the cosmos since we have a biosphere. And like our wildlife biologists and anthropologists, etc. go out of their way so as not to disturb the objects of the study within their environment, so too might any extraterrestrial intelligence related to UFOs try to keep to a minimum disturbing the natives. The aliens are harmless by deliberate design. Obviously even wildlife biologists have to occasionally capture, study (maybe dissect), tag and release their subject – what about a parallel with the abduction phenomena?
We’re Property – The Alien Abduction Scenario: Because the UFOs agenda is apparently neither an invasion nor a take-me-to-your-leader scenario, and since we haven’t found any extraterrestrial R&R resorts on our world (we have explored Mount Olympus – no extraterrestrials to be had), that leaves more a predicament of scientific study but embellished such as the concept built into the ‘Zoo Hypothesis’. We are ‘animals’ – those are the zoo keepers.
A rather stronger alternative scenario has us to be actually owned by E.T. – a minimum of so far as E.T. can be involved. They bought the property rights to The world eons ago, therefore we are their ‘slaves’; we’re their property; those are the masters and also the owners. But perhaps that’s too ‘invasion’ like, despite the fact that plausible.
So another argument from the UFO ETH may be the absolute absurdity of UFO-related alleged abductions by alien beings.
Okay, we have this subset from the UFO phenomena called alien abductions – extraterrestrials (often called the ‘Greys’) get their wicked ways with their human property. Skeptics suggest that the question ‘what will it all mean?’ is none other than so-called UFO abductees really are a bit touched in the head.
Apart from that, the sixty-four cent real question is ‘why’. Why would aliens abduct humans? Definitely not for chit-chat or wild parties! And why have a lot of humans been taken for such a long time? Well, just how long have humans studied rats, and just how many hundreds of thousands have had to run the maze? That’s my answer. We’re just lab rats towards the aliens. We’re not to become conquered, but we’re not going to be because of the remedy for cancer, the road to universal peace, and certainly not the “Encyclopaedia Galactica”. There will be no trade – their tribbles for our opals say.
What was it the compiler of other nutritional foods anomalous, the late Charles Fort said? “I think we’re property”. But is the fact that such a strange idea really? We own land by extension the plants and animals on it. Does a colony of wild turkeys comprehend that they are owned simply because they survive something called private property? They could be left in the primary quite alone and undisturbed, aside from the occasional the one that may be harvested (abducted) around The holiday season!
The UFO abduction phenomena is sensible in that it mirrors what wildlife biologists often do in the field – capture, study, tag and release. The UFO abduction ‘Greys’ appear to be interested in humans mainly with respect to areas or aspects surrounding reproduction and genetics. Fundamental essentials same types of areas required for our creator ‘gods’ (ancient astronauts by another name) to have ‘created’ humans to begin with, so maybe their grand plan is still unfolding!
There’s a clear parallel with aliens abducting humans. If humans are almost anything to be judged by, we abduct animals for those types of reasons, in the illegal trade in wildlife, to animals for zoos and safari parks, for medical research and biological research. With regards to the latter, wildlife biologists will frequently abduct, tag and release animals. Sound familiar? If animals communicate among themselves, their verbal history should be chockfull of abduction tales with humans the abductors.
We might ask what right extraterrestrials need to own The world and by extension us. Our colony of wild turkeys could ask exactly the same about us (or our domestic livestock or companion animals for instance). Maybe it amounts to the Golden Rule – they who’ve the gold (or would be the top of the food chain or have the biggest gun or the most advanced technology) make the rules. It will appear that, given the abduction (and maybe the livestock/animal mutilation phenomena), Planet Earth and its contents are indeed alien property. Obviously, as hinted above, it could have been the case that The world, as prime property, was obtained by extraterrestrials a billion years ago, way prior to the evolution of multi-cellular animals and plants, and of course humans.
Okay, we’re the home of the UFO ‘Greys’ and they feel they have every moral, ethical and right to have their wicked way around.
The ‘we are property’ (whether in a zoo or as lab rats) hypothesis explains the Fermi Paradox (“where is everybody?” – they’re here); it explains the observations that UFOs aren’t any threat to national security; it explains the possible lack of any alien invasion; it explains the possible lack of any alien’s “take me for your leader” scenario; it explains the overall UFO abduction phenomena; it probably accounts for the overall animal mutilation phenomena. It does not explain crop circles – unless one would equate all of them with the type of diversions, toys, monkey bars, bird swings and other connected furniture you’ll find in any pet store that we share with amuse our very own owned animals. Or, alternatively, perhaps crop circles are akin to the type of symbols (pictograms) behavioural scientists used in experiments in communicating with apes and monkeys – lab rats, albeit higher IQ lab rats.
