Are they be real? This was a question posed in one of the philosophy classes I attended a few years ago. The professor was getting desperate for some sort of response from the younger students. He still couldn't get any sort of conversation going from them so directed the question towards me yet again. Naturally I sat back and thought about it a moment then asked him in turn if we were basing their science on the limits we set on ourselves. His reply was yes. I sat back for a moment and responded with Occam's Razor. He naturally asked be to expound upon my reply so my response was....
"Occam's Razor. If the limits of the extraterrestrial technology are the same as ours then they too are limited by the speed of light thereby making their being from somewhere from outside our solar system highly unlikely. Therefore if there is a extraterrestrial intelligence visiting the Earth it started in this solar system and most likely Earth itself. The most likely planet for that to happen on is Earth itself."
...He in turn asked if I meant the military and my response was...
"Not necessarily. There is legends of past civilizations that attained a high degree of technology. If by chance... say a hundred thousand or more years ago... this civilization collapsed an outpost on the moon or some other planet there may be remnants that survived who after all this time would most likely have a technology even more advanced than our own and since they would look very human could very well be pulling all the strings in our governments for their own advantage."
Thoughts?
*****SMILE*****
