Problems With Fermi’s Paradox

Fermi’s Argument Contains a Clue to it’s Own Unraveling

Ironically, by Fermi’s own arguments the entire galaxy should have been fully “colonized” millions, if not billions of years ago. However, like the ebb and flow of a tidal wave, colonization could likewise occur in waves of time. The beings of the earliest waves on the billions of years ago scale, would no longer be among us, at least physically, for they would have long since either fallen into extinction, devolved into non-sentient life forms no longer capable of space flight technology, or ascended into non corporeal “energy” or purely spiritual forms. If such ancient beings do still live, they would currently be so far advanced beyond our state of existence that they’d have even less interest in us than we do in the tiny bugs we crush beneath our feet.

For billions of year, there could have been several colonization waves, representing the rise and fall of scores of galactic cultures, some lasting over periods spanning hundreds of millions of years. Yet even with this type of scenario there could be long spans of “non-colonizing” time intervals between some of these waves. It is even conceivable that some of these colonizing dry spells could last millions of years, and we could currently be in the middle of one of those periods. However, it is equally conceivable we live during one of the waves. Given these concepts, it would be reasonable to think that during the time spans of these waves, various attempts would be made at the establishment of “galactic laws”. Among these theoretical laws it stands to reason, that rules of first contact might be included. As seen in popular fiction, such rules of first contact may indeed include certain prerequisites before an intelligent race is ready for introduction into the galactic community. Simply put, we have not yet met those prerequisites. Until we do, at best our status could be considered potential for eventual contact, or if we can’t grow beyond our violent natures then we might be, at worst, slated for eradication, or merely allowed to self-immolate.

Due to our primitive status, we could be held in a quarantined or “nature preserve” mode, shielded from open contact, or for that matter open conquest. So, an invasion type occurrence like seen in such movies as War of the Worlds , or Independence Day , would likely be prevented from happening to us. However, by the same token, sometimes folks are known to break the rules, so such galactic laws might not necessarily prevent scenarios like a secretive approach. Some could be living among us, disguised as Human, merely to experience what it is like to be Human, while others might have more nefarious motivations for their surreptitious penetrations of our world. Infiltrations like we see dealt with in such science fiction television series as Invasion or novels like Robert A. Heinlein s Puppet Masters or such movies as They Live , and Invasion of the Body Snatchers show us just a few ways extraterrestrials could be among us right now without our official or public knowledge of it. While such UFO abduction researchers as Dr. David M. Jacobs’ International Center for Abduction Research (ICAR), and Bud Hopkins’ Intruders Foundation (IF) seek to persuade us that the invasion is currently underway, and has been for some time. Our incredulity about such possibilities could actually serve to help such hypothetical abducting intruders, if real, as they live among us virtually uncontested. Both of these researchers use a rather controversial method of hypnotic memory regression therapy to gather data. And while we can not call their data definitive, it is remarkably consistent, and if true leads to some rather disquieting conclusions. These would be that large numbers of individuals cross culturally worldwide are regularly abducted, primarily against their will, and are routinely subjected to medical probing and reproductive manipulations, which appears to include a major project involving the creation of Human/Alien hybrids. You can hear an interview with Dr. David Jacobs, when he was a guest, (10/16/2008 7:00 PM), at Blog Talk Radio on the archives of the ParaNexus Universe channel. In this interview Dr. Jacobs proposed that the Human/Alien hybrid program features a long term goal of these abducting aliens, known by some as the Grays, seeking to control and even ultimately replace Humanity with their hybrids, who are growing to appear increasingly indistinguishable from common Human. He believes many of these increasingly Human looking hybrids have already infiltrated Human cultures the world over, living among us, and influencing our societies increasingly over time. What he basically describes is a secret passive invasion, via a gradual infiltration of these hybrids indistinguishable from “normal” Humans. Dr. Jacobs sees “their” agenda as completely self-centered, and not with our best interests in heart. The data of this researcher and others in the field of UFO abduction investigations are compelling, but at this point in time inconclusive. Much additional research is called for before any real viable conclusions can really be drawn on this matter. Unfortunately, conventional science is quite antagonistic toward this research, delegating it purely to the fringe.

Some of the more conspiratorial bent have suggested that our own government is secretly in collusion with these abducting “Grays”, looking the other way in exchange for advanced technology. We can only hope this conspiracy theory is false, the product of over active imaginations. However if true, it would serve to make the alleged “cover up” more understandable. While other governments the world over are declassifying their UFO files, will the United States follow in those footsteps or continue the denials? Time will tell.

In the mean time, misuse of Fermi’s Paradox to support the questionable assumption of no evidence for an extraterrestrial presence continues to dominate our conventional scientific community and mainstream media, in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary.