What happens to human beings when extraterrestrial life forms are discovered?

ByJosé Manuel Ríos Valiente

It is a subject of numerous works such as movies, television and animation, and the existence of extraterrestrial life which is also handled in verification programs and debate programs may be romantic for human beings. In movies and animation etc., in many cases, it is drawn with the composition of "human being versus extraterrestrial life body", but what exactly happens when an extraterrestrial life body is found, former astronaut Yes Steven Dick, who has worked as a historian at NASA, has revealed the details.

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According to Mr. Dick who wrote a number of books on extraterrestrial life, even discovering microorganisms outside the earth has a big influence on research fields such as science and biology. Especially biology is studied only on DNA-based organisms on the earth, so if Mars orEuropaIf microorganisms are found in, extra - terrestrial - based biology will be born.


Mr. Dick says, "It is a great advance for biology, just to discover the case where the extraterrestrial life that I have found is not alive, that is to say, fossil discovery." Actually, the meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 1984Alan · Hills 84001"There seemed to be a fuss about whether it is a fossil of extraterrestrial life forms," ​​a fossillike thing of a life form like a bacteria "was found. Scholars of biology had great expectations for the discovery of new life forms, but from the writing of articles to the present, the official view on "what was discovered fossil-like things were" announced It is not done.

The fact that nothing is concluded even after 20 years since 30 years have passed since Alan Hills 84001's discovery shows how difficult it is to discover extraterrestrial life forms. Mr. Dick said, "Even if you discover something, the process from there is really long, you need to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life, verify and understand the evidence found Aller Hills 84001 Mystery It will take quite a long time for it to become clear. "


As Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas, I met indigenous Indians (Native Americans), and in the world history including Japan, there are encounters of human beings with different cultures. Mr. Dick is studying about "what can happen when I discover an extraterrestrial life entity" from the viewpoint "What happened when I discovered a different race?" However, looking at past examples, it is difficult for people who grew up in different cultures to communicate, and it seems that something like a kind of barrier will interfere with trying to understand each other.

Mr. Dick is preparing for the coming day, such as holding a symposium on the agenda of "preparing for new discovery" gathering not only individual research but also knowledge of each field. In the symposium, it is said that the intellectuals are arguing with contents such as "thoughts on life that is not a human viewpoint" and "understanding of philosophical and theoretical problems brought about by new discoveries".


It is hard to imagine that extraterrestrials are truly discovered, but Mr. Dick continues his research because he is convinced that one day will be discovered. Many delusions will come up as to when it will be discovered and what kind of things will happen if found.