Saturday, April 9, 2022

Are Space Aliens Actually White Colonialists?

I keep an ongoing file of links on the developing narrative about alien life, or maybe more accurately the narrative about no alien life, since most reports tend to support Fermi's Paradox -- despite all the calculations of how many planets are out there in the universe that could support life, we keep not finding it no matter how much we wish we could.

An exception is a new report, or maybe a rehash of an old report: Declassified Pentagon documents discuss UFOs causing "unaccounted-for pregnancies". This covers what at least purports to be additional information from the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the first reports of which emerged in 2017.

The Pentagon documents state that people who observed unidentified flying objects frequently displayed a cluster of similar physical symptoms: Injuries consistent with exposure to electromagnetic radiation (such as burns), heart ailments, and sleep disturbances. A report speculates that these could be caused by "energy related propulsion systems" and warns that the underlying technology could pose a "threat to United States interests." Additionally, in cases that would not seem out of place in an "X-Files" episode, there were accounts of "apparent abduction" and "unaccounted for pregnancy."

Another document from the cache contains a rubric for categorizing different types of seemingly paranormal experiences. If a person claims to have observed a UFO that had extraterrestrials on board, for instance, they are categorized as "CE3." By contrast, someone who says they encountered "ghosts, yetis, spirits, elves and other mythical/legendary entities" is classified as "AN3."

This strikes me as grant-funded researchers on a boondoggle doing whatever they can to stretch things out. Nevertheless, that a government project would apparently treat "unaccounted for pregnancy" as something on the border of scientific credibility does say something about space aliens and how we might approach the problem as neo-Aristotelians.

I've already mentioned here the problem that our idea of alien life is heavily colored by our Genesis-based assumptions about creation: earthlings are created in God's image, in particular endowed with reason that allows them to interpret and manipulate creation. This is illustrated most famously in the Voyager disk, a gold-plated copper LP phonograph record that was included on the Voyager space probes on what strikes me as the blithe assumption that whatever alien life might one day encounter it would use a God-given endowment of reason to decipher its quasi-scientific pictographs and reverse-engineer the mid-20th century technology of the record player.

Well, after all, wouldn't an interplanetary alien technology have been developed by creatures endowed with reason? I mean, how else do you invent warp drives?

The suggestion that it's even remotely credible that an encounter with aliens would result in "unaccounted for pregnancy" has the same difficulty. But let's accept the premise: neo-Darwinian theory suggests that x to the 28th planets exist. y to the -43rd of them are capable of supporting primeval ooze from which intelligent space aliens can evolve, given near-infinite time for this to take place. So it's no great leap to imagine that such aliens cruise by in their UFO, brush a little too close to Sadie wandering in the woods, and boom, Sadie's expecting, unaccountably.

(Don't blame me, this is in a government report.) But here's the problem. For Sadie to be expecting at all -- and I mean expecting anything, not just a fully developed earthling, or maybe a fully developed earthling-alien clone, or even some sort of alien implant that miscarries almost immediately, wouldn't this mean the aliens multiply via some mechanism fully compatible with earthling DNA? I mean, that's how earthlings multiply. (Again, this is in a government report. I didn't make this up.)

You may argue that well and good, but this is a product of evolution. Maybe the universe has evolved some sort of meta-DNA whereby it is a quality of life that irrespective of the particular form of DNA that's evolved from planet to planet, there is a universally evolved meta-DNA that is cross-compatible so that Sadie on Earth can get just as unaccountably pregnant as Euphemia on the planet SP:FQ&T if an alien brushes a little too close to either in their UFO.

But then we're back to the Genesis-based view of creation that is either teleological or meta-teleological and not random, as neo-Darwinists contend. In other words, there's either Yahweh or some Yahweh meta-equivalent (which a neo-Aristotelian would say is simply Yahweh again) guiding a meta-compatible process from planet to planet, not random combination, which would essentially be impossible if Sadie could get pregnant unaccountably from a hike in the woods where she met a UFO.

But if the space aliens who can impregnate an earthling are a product of the Biblical Almighty, as they must be in this scheme, then the whole universe is guided by the Genesis Yahweh, who is a product of the Patriarchy, which is the cause of reason, colonialism, whiteness, and everything connected with them. Thus space aliens are basically white colonialists.

I read all this in a government report, backed up by NASA's Voyager disk. The only problem is I've never been able to figure out how this could make me rich.