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Maybe Earth is Safe

Updated on September 30, 2011

Do They Exist?

Aliens
Aliens

Aliens

Maybe the Earth is safe, well that is to say that we are safe, from alien annihilation.

For many years now the questions have been asked.

Is there life on other planets?

Is there intelligent life out there?

Do they know we exist?

Do they mean us harm?

If they could reach us because of their advanced technology, could their advanced technology annihilate us?

Some people are now saying that we are perhaps safe from visiting aliens and that it is our existence itself that could keep us safe.

For What?

Gold
Gold
Diamonds or Water
Diamonds or Water

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If aliens were to visit Earth, what would be their purpose?

Science fiction has for many years depicted aliens in many different forms and with many different agendas. Most though, have depicted them as being in search of something.

There are those that have been in search of water. Why not? Isn’t that what our space agencies are already searching asteroids and planets for?

Some have been depicted as searching for gold, again, why not? Hasn’t gold always attracted us and been seen as something of value?

Then there have been those that have been searching for diamonds. The hardest substance known to man has already shown itself to be useful in advanced technology, so why shouldn’t it be even more useful to an even more advanced technology?

The problem with these works of fiction is why would they come to Earth?

Scientists have now seen a planet that they believe IS a diamond. Around the asteroid Eros there is believed to be four times the amount of gold than there is on Earth. All the water in our oceans is thought to be just a drop in a bucket, compared to the amount on Saturn.

If we already know this, then surely any aliens with advanced technology would also know it. Even oxygen has been found to be abundant in space.

Life on Earth

How?
How?

Life

There is one thing though, that even though we search for it, we have not found. Is it perhaps the rarest thing in the universe? That thing is life itself.

If this were the case, then it could be logical to surmise that aliens could be trying to seek out other life forms in the universe.

Again, if this were the case, like us, they would probably want to try and discover the secrets of what or how life is created.

To do this, it is doubtful that they would want to annihilate the one thing they would want to study.

So, perhaps we are a little safer than some science fiction writers would have us believe.

Unless of course our own fears, cause us to engage them in a war, that results in our demise.

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