Why Haven't Aliens Contacted Us? Read online

  One article claims: “Hundreds of leading scientists and technologists have joined Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk in warning of the potential dangers of sophisticated artificial intelligence, signing an open letter calling for research on how to avoid harming humanity.”

  So, aliens, mechanical or biological, that don't want us as competition. Maybe that's silly, but it would explain the silence in the universe. A ship full of Bug-Eyed Monsters is in hyperspace right now on its way to carry off our sexiest maidens and reduce us to slavery. Or whatever.

  Then again, for all you know, you may already be a deluded slave in some machine-driven Matrix!

  Chapter 15: Or We’re Just a Projection

  If our universe is just a holographic projection, then all bets are off. Assuming it is seems to solve a number of tough problems in mathematics. Or so I’m told (it’s a little bit hard to understand). The universe seems like a rather large screen just to have just one active set on it, but movie makers are a bit strange, anyway.

  Chapter 16: We’re Just an Experiment

  Perhaps there is a Great Experimenter, running a number of test tubes (our planet being one of them). The GE prevents communications between experiments.

  Chapter 17: God is Mysterious

  We could take the Bible (or some other religious work) at its word. God made us, and really didn’t feel inclined to create a second planet. Perhaps evolution was guided as some people claim and Earth spent most of its existence as pond slime because, well, God works in mysterious ways.

  Chapter 18: So There It Is

  After that, I located a copy of Rare Earth : why complex life is uncommon in the universe by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee. I’m assuming it’ll cover the topics raised in this booklet, but much better. I put off reading it until I finished this revision, just so as not to be too influenced or discouraged,

  If you have any questions or suggestions, send them to [email protected].

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  Chapter 19: Links:

  To follow the link cut and paste the address into your browser, or cut and past the topic title into a search engine.

  - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150427101635.htm. Science Daily. Origin of life: Chemistry of seabed's hot vents could explain emergence of life.

  - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meteorite-chemicals-may-have-started-life-on-earth-and-space/?WT.mc_id=SA_SPC_20150423 Meteorite Chemicals May Have Started Life on Earth—and Space

  - SETI, The Fermi Paradox and the Singularity https://www.faughnan.com/setifail.html

  - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-supercivilizations-absent-from-100-000-nearby-galaxies/?WT.mc_id=SA_SPC_20150423 Alien Supercivilizations Absent from 100,000 Nearby Galaxies

  - https://www.cbc.ca/radio/popup/audio/player.html?autoPlay=true&clipIds=2666106459 Jupiter Attacks https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-quarks-for-may-2-2015-1.3057619/jupiter-attacks-1.3057688

  - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/science/making-sense-of-the-chemistry-that-led-to-life-on-earth.html?_r=0 Making Sense of the Chemistry That Led to Life on Earth

  - The Drake Equation https://www.astro.virginia.edu/~jh8h/Foundations/drake.html

  - There Are 'Tens Of Billions' Of Habitable Planets In Our Galaxy, Astronomer Seth Shostak Says https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/24/habitable-planets-seth-shostak_n_5527116.html

  - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/09/organic-molecules-star-system_n_7027322.html?cps=gravity_2444_-5493287590259703603 Building Blocks For Life Discovered In Distant Star System

  - https://news.rpi.edu/content/2015/03/09/rippling-milky-way-may-be-much-larger-previously-estimated The Corrugated Galaxy—Milky Way May Be Much Larger Than Previously Estimated - See more at: https://news.rpi.edu/content/2015/03/09/rippling-milky-way-may-be-much-larger-previously-estimated#sthash.R7xTtTHP.dpuf

  - https://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2lq1rg/1884T-bRm:DZInRduM/www.astrobio.net/news-brief/earths-breathable-atmosphere-tied-plate-tectonics/ Earth’s Breathable Atmosphere Tied to Plate Tectonics?

  - https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26601-saturns-calming-nature-keeps-earth-friendly-to-life.html#.VHPQF9LF94E Saturn's calming nature keeps Earth friendly to life

  - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moon-life-tides/ Without the Moon, Would There Be Life on Earth?

  - https://astrosociety.org/edu/publications/tnl/33/moon2.html What If the Moon Didn't Exist?

  - https://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/wcmoon.html How did the Moon form and why is it crucial to life?

  - https://phys.org/news/2012-03-tidal-venuses-wrung.html 'Tidal Venuses' may have been wrung out to dry

  - https://www.livescience.com/18972-earth-seasons-tilt.html What If There Were No Seasons?

  - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-astronomical-tidal-forces-trigger-earthquakes/?WT.mc_id=SA_BS_20150501 Can Astronomical Tidal Forces Trigger Earthquakes?

  - https://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150515-how-weird-is-our-solar-system How Weird is Our Solar System

  - https://www.space.com/24989-planet-x-search-nasa-telescope.html Where's Planet X? NASA Space Telescope Discovers Thousands of New Stars, But No 'Nemesis'

  - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-dark-matter-killed-the-dinosaurs/ Fact or Fiction?: Dark Matter Killed the Dinosaurs

  - https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827874.800-life-is-found-in-deepest-layer-of-earths-crust.html#.VWcs0NJViko Life is found in deepest layer of Earth's crust

  - A new History of Life: The Radical Discoveries About the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth, by Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink, Bloomsbury Press, 2015.

  - Rare earth : why complex life is uncommon in the universe / Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee.

  - https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gamma-ray-bursts-may-repeatedly-wipe-out-life Gamma-ray bursts may repeatedly wipe out life

  - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/28/asteroid-boiled-oceans_n_7457722.html?ir=Science&ncid=newsltushpmg00000003 Asteroid Impacts 3.3 Billion Years Ago Caused Earth's Oceans To Boil

  - https://www.infoplease.com/cig/biology/eukaryote-evolution.html Origin of Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

  - https://education.seattlepi.com/three-examples-prokaryote-three-examples-eukaryote-4492.html Three Examples of a Prokaryote and Three Examples of a Eukaryote

  - https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/_0/endosymbiosis_03 prokaryotes to eukaryotes

  - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540 Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind

  - https://rt.com/usa/222015-scientists-dangers-artificial-intelligence/ Scientists join Elon Musk & Stephen Hawking, warn of dangerous AI

  - https://themindunleashed.org/2014/05/16-signs-youre-slave-matrix.html?fb_action_ids=10153161671056075&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=below-post 16 Signs That You’re a Slave to the Matrix

  - https://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-human-brain-neanderthal-120506.htm Did a Copying Mistake Make Humans So Smart?

  - https://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328 Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram

  - https://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-human-brain-neanderthal-120506.htm Did a Copying Mistake Make Humans So Smart?

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