Posts

Showing posts from February, 2021

Literature Review #2

Image
Visual :  Summary: The article illustrates the few behaviors that the extraterrestrials would possibly play on humankind and the potential actions of human beings to encounter the risks or dangers we would face in the future. Tough made specific proposals, some based on evidence or earlier incidents, on the human's instant protection on advanced extraterrestrials' invisible actions, the possible methods of communication and help towards extraterrestrials' radio messages, and the preparations of interaction with extraterrestrials. Tough concludes that gaining major insights through thoughtful, disciplined inquiry into such questions could alter humankind's current priorities.  Citation : Tough, Allen (1986).  "What Role will Extraterrestrials Play in Humanity's Future?"   (PDF) .  Journal of the British Interplanetary Society . 39 (11): 491–498. Author : Allen Tough   was a Canadian educator and researcher. Widely known as a futurist, scientist, and author,

Research Proposal

Working Title: Humankind Connecting with Extraterrestrial Life, What’s Next? Topic        I will discuss the current status of acknowledging the extraterrestrial life that we have on hand. This paper will cover the bigger picture of government’s coverups or debunk on the cosmic secret, which tightly related to the whole humankind’s fate and our civilization’s life expectancy. Research Question        What is the current status of extraterrestrial studies? Why did the government find it is necessary to coverups or debunk the secrets of Aliens? How would they conclude with the fate of humankind after successfully contacting extraterrestrial life? Theoretical Frame        In the study, Contact with Alien Civilizations, Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials , done by Michael Michaud, it hypothesizes that contacting with an extraterrestrial civilization in the cosmos would be equivalent to finding a needle in a haystack of 35 times the size of Earth. Yet, we

Literature Review #1

Image
  Visual : Summary :  Citation : Michaud, Michael. Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials . Springer, 2010. Author :  Michael A.G. Michaud, in his career, once served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of Science and Technology, Director of the State Department's Office of Advanced Technology, and Minister-Counselor for Environment, etc. He also is a member of the Astrobiology/SETI Board, Diplomacy Board, Economics Board, and Space Settlement Board. He once played a major role in the negotiation of a new space cooperation agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Also, Michaud was one of the initiators of U.S.-Soviet anti-satellite arms control negotiations and served on the U.S. delegation.  Key Terms :  L (longevity): the average lifetime of communicating civilizations, and can be determined by the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.  Quotes :  “Searching for other life in the universe is not an unnecess

Research Blog #3 - Research Question and 3 Scholarly Sources

Image
  After researching my previous blog post topics, I got some confusions on the field of study of those “ufologists”. Some coverup the fact, some debunk the truth, while some have said we have no progress on finding evidence of extraterrestrial intelligent life. What, after all, is the current status of the scientific ufo study?  Do “ufologists” actually have a “field” of study, and what would it be?  How would they conclude with the future of human beings after confirming the success of contacting extraterrestrial life?  Would it be a Judgement Day of the whole race of human beings?  Work Cited     LEMARCHAND, G. “M.A.G. Michaud, Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears About Encountering Extraterrestrials, Copernicus Books, New York (2007) (xiii+460 Pp., $27.50, ISBN:0-387-28598-9).” Space Policy, vol. 23, no. 3, 2007, pp. 188–90, doi:10.1016/j.spacepol.2007.06.003.   “Not of This Earth: UFO Studies.” Logos (Moscow, Russia), vol. 29, no. 5, 2019, pp. 229–54, doi:10.22394/

Scouting the Territory

Image
 The main idea of the topic, "what impact does UFO have on our society" hasn't changed. At first, my opinion only remain at the level of government's pressure on the public, but it evolves to some perspectives such as the existence of extraterrestrials lead the assumption of more high civilizations outside the solar system (https://www.wired.com/story/what-scientists-can-learn-from-alien-hunters/) and some potential cultural impact of UFOs contact.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_cultural_impact_of_extraterrestrial_contact).  Key terms like "UFO culture" and "Impact of UFO Technology" I put into google comes out some websites like "what happens next if we find proof of space aliens". But all the articles were talking about due to the restriction of current technology on finding the exact proof on extraterrestrials, there are no assumptions of the next step of human beings. But there is an article talking about "what scienti