I have read your argument as to the possible nature of the existence and contact with an alien race. Within the argument you stated that an advanced species, capable of space travel, would clearly not be a violent species. But you gave you real reason why that would be the case. The most obvious difficulty with discussing the nature of an alien species is the fact that their planet, history and understanding of the universe could also be utterly alien. There may be no similarities whatsoever. So the best we can hope to do is try to explain them in terms of our own species, which also might be a large step backwards to truly understanding them. On that note, one thing is certain about our species... war has driven us further on a technilogical level. The advent of better "flying machines" and weapons has been the soul result of our arms race, not our desire for exploration. So my question is this. Isn't it possible that an alien race has developed the technology to travel space/time and arrive at our planet BECAUSE they are so good at war?Statistics: Posted by PurpleStikyPunch — Thu Jan 26, 2006 7:48 am
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