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Originally Posted by DaveMatrix
Care to expand on that???
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It depends on who you ask and where you get your information. Some people quantify the subject in terms of the Drake Equation and Fermi's Paradox, and are content with keeping the topic well within philosophical or mathematical constraints.
Take Von Neumann machines, for example. In this hypothesis, a given civilization sends out self-replicating devices. These devices, in multiplying, each branch out in different directions. The end result is a geometric spread that covers a given space, like a galaxy, within ten thousand years. The size of the space is finite while the devices replicate, so it takes only one civilization and one self-replicating probe to blanket an enormous expanse. Given the results of the Drake Equation, it is highly likely that this phenomenon has already occurred in our own cosmic neighborhood.
However, I was not satisfied with essentially abstract musings. I dug into the UFO mythology, and while Sturgeon's Law holds sway (90% of everything is crap), I have come across some very compelling puzzle pieces. While it became quickly evident that photographic evidence is uniformly uninformative, and that there are a lot of kooks out there who need psychiatric help, there are some intriguing points of reference that endure in a sea of questionable information. Specifically, the work of Dr. Steven Greer and Stanton Friedman.
Friedman works from logical deduction and has a bulletproof scientific pedigree. Greer interviews scientists and members of the armed forces who reveal independently corroborated data -- people of professional standing who have nothing to gain and everything to lose in telling their stories.
Basically, it's like this. In the mid-1940s, our understanding of the history of the world began to split off in two different directions. On the one hand, you have the conventional wisdom: that there may be intelligent life out there, but it's never stopped by for a visit. On the other hand, you have a hidden history, where first contact has already been made, in the wake of a crash in New Mexico in June of 1947.
In this unconventional history, its revelations have been kept secret because the fruits of alien technology would bring about the global collapse of the petroleum industry and the electrical grid. Here, this group is known as the "energy cartel," led primarily by eschatological tyrants with a knee-jerk penchant for compartmentalized secrecy and a phobic response to the potential parameters of alien power -- power in terms of technology, spirituality, and sheer knowledge of the Universe. Here, benevolent aliens do not intervene because they follow a Prime Directive of sorts; their history of millions of years has taught them that if a civilization cannot lift itself to the stars by its own bootstraps, it is not cut out to stay there. Besides, "Take me to your leader" doesn't work when planet Earth is cut up into religious, political, and cultural fiefdoms. There is no true leader to approach in the first place.
So my answer is yes. After extensive research on the subject, I have come to the conclusion that they know we are here -- but humanity is not collectively prepared for the introduction.