http://www.mobilemag.com/2013/02/16/talking-to-aliens/ Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Sun, 19 May 2013 22:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.mobilemag.com/2013/02/16/talking-to-aliens/#comment-65201 rtb61 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:44:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=145820#comment-65201 First you would have to consider the logical structure of very old intergalactic alien societies and what responsibilities accrue at what stages of development. Lowest would be the observed, obviously primitive. Next would be observers, they observer each other and the observed, nothing more. Interactors would interact to a limited degree with each other and of course the observers and the observed. The guides, would provide guidance to all of those bellow them and they would cooperate amongst themselves in doing so. The administrators would ensure each society adhered to the decreed level of influence and stuck to the rules, they would raise or lower the status of less advanced societies. Authority would be the final measure of enforcement, the established limit of technology within the galaxy, the expression of extinction for those that fail to adhere to the rules. The measure of worth of any society would be how well it interacts with less advanced societies and it would be far more important to raise a more advanced society to a higher level even at the learning lesson expense of a less advanced society. So for the observed they are the mice in a sociological laboratory, how quickly they acknowledge that and drop the delusions of importance would be a measure of how quickly they advance, that and of course develop the technologies that allow them to extend the intellectual and not militaristic reach. First you would have to consider the logical structure of very old intergalactic alien societies and what responsibilities accrue at what stages of development.
Lowest would be the observed, obviously primitive.
Next would be observers, they observer each other and the observed, nothing more.
Interactors would interact to a limited degree with each other and of course the observers and the observed.
The guides, would provide guidance to all of those bellow them and they would cooperate amongst themselves in doing so.
The administrators would ensure each society adhered to the decreed level of influence and stuck to the rules, they would raise or lower the status of less advanced societies.
Authority would be the final measure of enforcement, the established limit of technology within the galaxy, the expression of extinction for those that fail to adhere to the rules.
The measure of worth of any society would be how well it interacts with less advanced societies and it would be far more important to raise a more advanced society to a higher level even at the learning lesson expense of a less advanced society.
So for the observed they are the mice in a sociological laboratory, how quickly they acknowledge that and drop the delusions of importance would be a measure of how quickly they advance, that and of course develop the technologies that allow them to extend the intellectual and not militaristic reach.

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