WHat if...

With the new "Kepler" (Hope I'm spelling it correctly.) Satellite we are discovering
hundreds of possible Earth size planets every months; all within a sliver of the sky.

Over 2,000 possible rocky planets to check out and the list is growing every day.

OK This is great scientific stuff. BUT, has anyone considered the WHAT IF???

Lets say we contact a civilization that can read and understand and reply to
our signals. That they can do this makes this 'contact' a possible threat to all
people of Earth. WHY? Lets look at our history. Whether we invaded "new"
countries or even peacefully arrived, the new people eventually destroy the
older existing people.

Sometimes, they purposely set out to kill the established people. Sometimes, it was
disease the invaders were immune to that did the killing at an alarming rate.

The net result is that old and establish societies were reduced to few survivors.

So now we are inviting a new society to our planet. if they can come here,
that means they are well ahead of our technology. You could say they were
superior to our technology. Maybe they might want to plunder Earth's resources.
Maybe they need our planet for their society.

Earth would be helpless to stop them from doing whatever they wanted and taking
whatever they wanted.

That is not the scenario anyone sending out signals is thinking about. But it is a
possibility - a very real possibility.

My thought is that we need to keep a low profile until we can travel through space.
Otherwise, it's like waving a red flag at a bull. The bull has to charge at the motion. And
the possible new space creatures are the bull.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford.