Friday, October 21, 2005

SETI and the Cosmic Quarantine Hypothesis

There may be many highly evolved civilizations in our galaxy, and some of them may even be the interstellar colonies of others. They may control technologies vastly more powerful than ours, applied to purposes we can scarcely imagine. But Harrison's regulatory mechanisms should preclude any relentless wave of colonization from overrunning and cannibalizing the Milky Way.


This essay fails to note the ways in which the UFO phenomenon appears to dovetail with a self-regulating "quarantine." My ufological working hypothesis holds that a nonhuman intelligence -- possibly but not necessarily extraterrestrial -- is waging a patient memetic campaign in order to prevent us from becoming an aggressive cosmic cancer later in our evolution.

2 comments:

platts42 said...

you say, "Cosmic Cancer", so then they don't care what we do to ourselves?

Local evidence would state that is the case.

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