Since no one ever reads this crap anyway, I can write my thoughts here pretty much without fear of the CIA snuffing me for revealing state secrets or the general public demanding I be locked up, investigated, stuffed in a nuthouse or some other dire consequence.
So to get right to it, let’s look at some givens first. The Industrial Revolution began in Europe around 1760 as manufacturing began to be crudely mechanized and steam engines started being developed. By 1860 the electric dynamo and electric motor had been perfected to the point that the electric train subway system under the streets of London was almost complete.
By 1906, radio signals were being sent across the Atlantic Ocean, and by 1956 the transistor had been developed and electronic computers were being built. By 1969 we were walking around on the Moon.
So from roughly 1800 to 2000, in other words about 200 years, humanity went from a race of kingships, wooden ships, dirt roads and open gutters to a space-faring people. In 200 years time our technology exploded. People 200 years ago would have compared us to gods.
Next given is that our Universe is about 14 billion years old. The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, so obviously there’s other planets older than Earth. There’s also a lot of Earth-like planets, we now know. So there can be other intelligent, space-faring races much older than Humanity and far more advanced. What if the Greeks and Romans had invested all their energies into advancing their technology instead of wars? The Greeks had extremely sophisticated mechanical computers 1000’s of years ago. Would we be building our own flying saucers today?
There are reports thousands of years old written in clay and stone of visitors from the sky. Some were teachers, some were gods, some were angels who arrived in circular ships. Check the Christian Bible, it’s all there. Aliens have been coming here for thousands of years. Perhaps hundreds of thousands of years.
Not all these visitors looked the same, and from eye witness descriptions given these days, they don’t all look the same. Their ships are described as having different shapes, wedge shaped, like a flying wing, circular, tubular. So it’s another given that Earth is still being visited by not just one alien race but at least 3 and probably more different races.
A goal of ours is to populate the habitable planets around other stars. This will not happen, obviously, because they’re all taken already by all the older space-faring races. That should be a given to anyone with a functional brain, and it’s the same reason that none of them have invaded and taken over the Earth. If there was just one other visiting race they would probably have taken over millennia ago when there were far less of us and we hadn’t made a mess of our planet yet. But there must be some sort of planetary federation where they all agree to leave each other alone, as other wise we wouldn’t be related to other Earth species, we’d be aliens.
But they study us, abduct us, do experiments on us and very likely are mixing their DNA with some of us. Why else would they keep hanging out? It’s entirely possible that we are part them. Modern man sprang into being out of nowhere about 200,000 years ago, naked, hairless humans. We have the DNA of other humanoid types like the Denisovans and Neanderthals, but we also know that’s from interbreeding AFTER we appeared.
Why do we use rats, monkeys and pigs in laboratory experiments? Because they’re so similar to us biologically and in some cases behaviorally. Why do aliens experiment on us? Same answer.
Tourism. Rich humans pay millions just to go into space. How much do aliens pay to visit Earth and the Solar System? Student study trips, see the developing intelligent race, look what they’re doing, test on return to Zarg.
They will not allow us to destroy ourselves in nuclear war. We know this because of all the documented times they’ve disabled our warheads in their silos. They have too much invested in our planet to allow it. There’s constant reports of sightings all over the world, there must be thousands of them here who have well and long established infrastructures.
They want us to develop a planetary government. So do I. All these different squabbling little nations just keep fighting with each other instead of getting together and sharing the wealth of the planet equably and responsibly. They don’t seem to be interfering with the process though, but they’ve been watching us for thousands of years so what’s a few thousand more?
So since we’re not going to turn our planet into a radioactive cinder, that means we can keep on expanding our technological knowledge and capabilities. With that as a given, we can expect to develop anti-gravity, learn to propagate gravity waves, create force fields and tractor and pressor beams and do a lot of the groovy stuff we already know the aliens can do.
Once we figure out how to manipulate gravity the way they do, we’ll be out there mining the asteroids like crazy, building cities on the Moon, Mars and at La Grange points, and planning to visit distant stars.
That last part may get sticky. The people on the inhabited planets out there may not be real welcoming, but hopefully by then we’ll have been invited into at least the Outer Circle of our Milky Way Federation and will know where we can go and where we can’t.
It’s pretty likely that we will never be allowed to colonize any planets around other stars and instead will have to make do with spreading out on our own planets and moons, since any star within reasonable distance of us that has anything at all habitable around it is very likely taken.
I personally give it a Zero possibility of any member of the human race still existing after another 10 million years passes. After a thousand million years, which is a billion, of course, none of the intelligent races alive in our galaxy today will exist. Something will kill us all off or some planetary disaster will occur, some massive extinction event or series of events, because that’s what does happen, repeatedly, here on Earth, and other planets are just other planets, none of them have Special Dispensation.