Panic and chaos is always predicted with that announcement but I don't personally see that happening.
I'm with you. Barring some kind of actual attack, I don't think the reaction to the knowledge that we we've been visted would be panic and chaos.
Generally in a lot of the sightings just in their movement they can do things that we don't understand.
The overall lack of evidence of any civilization off of earth gives me pause whenever things like this are seen.
He's making 2 assumptions. 1. if there were another civilization out there their lifespans are the same as ours. 2. You have to travel the speed of light to come from another star.
I have little doubt that advanced civilizations exist elsewhere. I just think it is unlikely that no matter how advanced they are, they have figured out how to get here.
As unadvanced as we are and only having been working on it for less than 100 years we've sent stuff billions of miles beyond from our planet. Methinks you need to watch more sci-fi.
Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.
Dismissing this possibility out of hand seems, IMHO, more a limitation in what we perceive as possible than due to technical problems. In under 200 years we have gone from the horse and buggy to the beginning planning stage of colonizing another planet. How much of what we have today would seem like magic and completely unfathomable to someone who lived as recently as 100 years ago. Where will we be in several thousand years? Who knows, but I sure don't think that just because we haven't figured it out yet in our infancy, doesn't mean that another race hasn't.
