I often wonder how the world would change if an advanced alien race, not terably ulike our own, except that they have the ability to travel vast distances through space, were to land on earth, make itself known, and then share all of their technology and teachings with us.
What really makes me chuckle is the idea that, while much of their technologly and scientific principals will be examined and likely quickly adopted and implimented in new human technology, the same thing will probably happen with their culture and subjective philosophies.
There are just too many stupid people in the world for everyone to be siting in awe and taking notes as they demonstrate to us all sorts of principals of propultion, and cosmology which they can back up, and let us experement with on our own, and then second guess them when they throw in a little unsupported tidbit about quasi-gravitational neutron plasma particles and their unstable quantum nature being proof of some alien hyperspace warp God.
What do you think would happen? If an advanced alien race were to come with us to share their technology and then also start throwing in bullshit extra terrestrial theology and philosophy would most people be able to tell the difference? Do you think most people have the intelligence to differentiate between testable and observeable fact, and subjective and arbitrary claims? Even if they could, would people still believe that alien theology and philosophy is somehow superior or more advanced then our own?
Personaly I think that there would be a lot of people who would just eat up whatever they say, and believe it as pure undenyable fact, incorporate it as dogma, even, but then I've probably been hanging around sciforums for too long
What really makes me chuckle is the idea that, while much of their technologly and scientific principals will be examined and likely quickly adopted and implimented in new human technology, the same thing will probably happen with their culture and subjective philosophies.
There are just too many stupid people in the world for everyone to be siting in awe and taking notes as they demonstrate to us all sorts of principals of propultion, and cosmology which they can back up, and let us experement with on our own, and then second guess them when they throw in a little unsupported tidbit about quasi-gravitational neutron plasma particles and their unstable quantum nature being proof of some alien hyperspace warp God.
What do you think would happen? If an advanced alien race were to come with us to share their technology and then also start throwing in bullshit extra terrestrial theology and philosophy would most people be able to tell the difference? Do you think most people have the intelligence to differentiate between testable and observeable fact, and subjective and arbitrary claims? Even if they could, would people still believe that alien theology and philosophy is somehow superior or more advanced then our own?
Personaly I think that there would be a lot of people who would just eat up whatever they say, and believe it as pure undenyable fact, incorporate it as dogma, even, but then I've probably been hanging around sciforums for too long