Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "10 Unpleasant Alien Civilization Scenarios" video.

  1. My take on it, the more advanced a civilization becomes, the more dangerous they become to themselves and others and I suspect that leads to one of two things, either they wipe themselves out or they become so civilized that they are no threat to themselves or others. A bit like the atomic bomb, when that was created, many thought that would be the end of us but what actually happened is that it changed us to become more civilized, now I'm not saying wars don't happen but they are usually with countries that can't fight back, so rich countries against poor ones and given time, the entire world is going to modernize which would make war very difficult without a massive cost to the ones starting it and I can imagine with tech far more advanced than us, that becomes more the case. So my take on it that I think it's unlikely to have a really advanced alien race that's hostile as if they are hostile, that ripple effect would play out on their own people and would likely end in disaster and as for us humans, the next 100 years could be our make or break moment, either we get past our divisions and come together as a people or we end up doing so much damage to ourselves that we more or less wipe ourselves out, after all, imagine 200 countries with tech 100, 200 years more advanced than we have today with the nature that tech filters down in society, that doesn't bold well for humans with our mindset we have today and throughout most of human history. In fact you see it with sci-fi shows, they basically imprint how humans would react on an alien race which isn't realistic, in fact we do that with movies like Jaws where's he's on the hunt to hunt humans down which is a human motive not a shark motive. But truth be told, we don't know how an alien race would be like or how they would act to us or for that matter how we would act to finding out we are not alone in the universe. Also, if I was an advanced alien race and wanted to learn or interact with humans, I think the best way to do that would be to create a human for that task, maybe even be able to implant an alien mind into a human minds, that would allow an alien race to explore Earth and us humans without us being any the wiser about it and on that note, there's a fair chance that humans will split off into other alien races thanks to genetic engineering, which there might not be any limits in how far we can change ourselves or other animals on the planet and clearly in the wrong hands, that could be a really bad idea but in the right hands, there's a lot of benefits to that.
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