Off World Motivations (Intergalactic Law)

The modern belief is if we get contacted by another species it is likely no good will come of it for us humans. Which leads me to think there is some sort of order or guidelines that space fairing races follow. It has to be open and general to avoid conflicts that could destroy potentially hundreds of worlds and trillions of beings.

Like: The Universe is a free will zone.

Different species would have different specific rule-sets to deal with individual events and needs. The beings with like rule-sets and thus generally similar moral direction, would further guide themselves with more restrictive rules. Like: Star Treks' Prime Directive

This would be trumped by survival needs. That is if a race were to potentially reveal themselves by landing here, they would be expected, by other species of like mind, to have extreme need. Like survival.

Any hostile species would not get far in a galactic community. War could be a total loss no matter who is involved due to the potential destructive powers these folks wield. We would be easy prey... even in a hundred years we will likely be of no galactic treat.

The words used in the posed question are important though, "if we get contacted we are in trouble." Meaning that if you see an alien, they are desperate and should be feared... like any desperate, injured animal. The reason that brought them here far outweighs one human life to keep it secret. I guess that means we should fear them.

So why have they not contacted us and only contacted individuals in a clandestine manner that leads me to think it either us they want to misinform, or maybe there are others they want to hide their actions from. The only reason to hide themselves from us is they have rules to prevent this or fear us. I dont think it is fear. And the rule to prevent the open contact must be to prevent "potentially harmful" species from reaching this community. Either that or we are so much as 'lab rats' to them... or "God-seed."

So what are they waiting for us to do before the "Galactic Community" becomes open to us? It isn't get into space or land on another planet or we would be contacted already.

I think as long as we push away from the planet by consuming its natural resources we are an extreme danger to life as we DON'T know it. We must work to free ourselves from the finite resources on Earth so we are not a danger to any other species. Due to we will need to mine/destroy most every potential ecosystem within our grasp in order to get its resources. If we prove our freedom from the resources available in this system and on this planet, we will "find them."

The reason I stress the resource thing, in an infinitely huge universe, is that our current sun can only generate Fe (iron) through the fusion it maintains. The heavier elements than iron were created by the star that preceded the current sun. It was much larger and its super-nova collapsed down to form not only the Sun but all the other planets and matter in this solar system. Thus this solar system has a unique profile of elements that it is comprised of. Any dependence on these may hinder our reach to the boundaries of the Sol system.

Further this explains why the aliens are in our system. They are likely taking solar and rocky planet samples and creating "computer models" of what types of life should have formed here due to the unique elemental profile and the Suns current solar radiation. Then comparing them to the actual life found. In essence... the aliens are here looking for God.

That is, any anomalous life forms that "should not be in this system" must have a source. If an anomaly has been found to have 'no logical source' then perhaps gets duplicated far and wide across the universe, this would spur on science on a scale fitting to explain the extremely advanced technologies needed to travel, and study, the stars. Tracing this source of the 'anomalous life,' could be the ultimate motivation to an alien "a quest of spiritual wholeness," or just to make logical sense of the Universe.

The "Key" to becoming a species of galactic concern is likely to be somthing on-the-lines-of: we need to go from ground to the moon, for instance, and back in a vehicle that needs no refueling and no boosters. Until then we will be stuck in this corporate insanity, where profit is from consumption and thus fuel is needed. I say this is completely unneeded.

Even if we had a source of free energy (Piezoelectricity: crystal energy or similar) we would likely never see it. Only because there is too much money to be made from consumption and nothing from humanitarianism. In fact I can fathom that if we were thrust into a galactic community, most of us would take "off-world" work. The wealthy would not have station or power relative to the alien folks that have the REAL power. So upturned would our system be, that we would need to redefine wealth and power altogether.

Thus no push to become part of a greater community from off-world or on-world sources. And here we sit... as slaves.