[Ronin]

ET may be as friendly and cuddly as Shirley MacLaine dreams, but it would be well to remember Pellegrino's fundamental Three Laws of Alien Behavior:

1) Their survival will be more important than our survival.
2) Wimps don't become top dogs.
3) They will assume that the first two laws apply to us.

To expand;

If there is even the slightest possibility that we will threaten their survival, there will be elements of that species who will advocate eliminating the threat -- even if that means eliminating us as a species.

Any species that manages to claw itself to the top of a planetary food chain and develop the technology required for interplanetary space flight is going to be as least as tough, smart and nasty as we are. They may change philosophically, but the potential will most likely remain.

If they encounter another space-capable species, they are going to assume that species is as least as tough, smart and nasty as they are capable of being, and also assume that we may view them as a threat to their survival -- and act accordingly.

[truthandjustice1]

"If they encounter another space-capable species, they are going to assume that species is as least as tough, smart and nasty as they are capable of being, and also assume that we may view them as a threat to their survival -- and act accordingly."

scary...

[Quix]

WITHIN the scope of your analysis, I think you are quite right.

They do SEEM quite doggedly insistent on our keeping atomic weapons out of space--at least to a major degree within certain parameters.

However, I'm skeptical that they view us as more than a 0.000000000000001% risk.

I believe if they viewed us as a significant risk at all, that they would behave very differently toward us.

[l8pilot]

ET may be as friendly and cuddly as Shirley MacLaine dreams, but it would be well to remember Pellegrino's fundamental Three Laws of Alien Behavior: 1) Their survival will be more important than our survival. 2) Wimps don't become top dogs. 3) They will assume that the first two laws apply to us.

This is one of the more intelligent threads on FR on the subject of UFOs/EBE's.

Several years ago, I read LtCol. Phillip Corso's book, "The Day after Roswell" with a grain of salt. I knew someone who was on Sen. Thurmond's staff at the time, and he vouched for him. In the last 48 hours, I have been researching the subject, and came across the "Discloure Project" videos, and I must say, it appears to be...compelling. Particularly given astronaut's Gordon Cooper, Dr. Mitchell, and others' comments.

This could be the mystery of the millenium.

[l8pilot]

ET may be as friendly and cuddly as Shirley MacLaine dreams, but it would be well to remember Pellegrino's fundamental Three Laws of Alien Behavior: 1) Their survival will be more important than our survival. 2) Wimps don't become top dogs. 3) They will assume that the first two laws apply to us.

This is one of the more intelligent threads on FR on the subject of UFOs/EBE's.

Several years ago, I read LtCol. Phillip Corso's book, "The Day after Roswell" with a grain of salt. I knew someone who was on Sen. Thurmond's staff at the time, and he vouched for him. In the last 48 hours, I have been researching the subject, and came across the "Discloure Project" videos, and I must say, it appears to be...compelling. Particularly given astronaut's Gordon Cooper, Dr. Mitchell, and others' comments.

This could be the mystery of the millenium.