Predicting What Extraterrestrials Will Be Like

PREDICTING WHAT EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS WILL BE LIKE I was reading through Simon Conway Morris long winded paper on "predicting what extra-terrestrial will be" like paper in the Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society. The thought occurred to me that this bag of hot speculative air he is bantering about is actually something that I have given considerable thought to. I have done a great deal of reading, research and more importantly thinking on just this subject. The link above will take directly to Simon's paper, but good luck with that!The UFO situation is extremely well documented, many people including Presidents, Prime Ministers and a whole host of credible witnesses have told us that they have seen UFOs (it is assumed being operated by intelligent life). Recent polls put people's belief in UFOs around the 70% mark and some polls at 90%. So I think it is fair to say that people get the UFO phenomena and those that don't will have to wait for proverbial UFO to land on the White House lawn. Lets be clear and define extra-terrestrial life, I am not talking about microscopic life matter on some distant planet but intelligent life forms that have been in the Universe much longer than man has been on earth. Life forms that have the ability to traverse the Universe and use technology that we have not even dreamed of yet.It has been fairly well reported what Steven Hawking feelings on the subject are, if you not aware please click the link for the full story, but the bottom line is he said we should not be attempting to contact aliens because it did not go well for the American Indians when the Europeans came to the new world. He is speculating that it may follow that same path. For such a bright guy I think he could not be further from the truth. First off, if a race of aliens that has technology beyond our imagination could have dominated earth long ago, also if a race is that far advanced you would like to think that they have evolved over the years to know that world domination and war does not accomplish anything positive. If an alien race has experienced similar evolution of man then they would have experienced, border wars, battles and world wars, nuclear weapons and even genocide, if they managed to survive all that without annihilating their own home world then they would have finally gotten it right.Also you would think that they would have evolved away from a materialistic world and more towards a resource world. The only exception might be that in the great scheme of things we are pretty insignificant. Our home planet is merely a speck in the Universe. Watch this one minute video to see what I mean plus great background music.