My dad got me into UFO's , science and paranormal shit as a kid and he's still recording UFO specials and episodes of Ghost Hunters for me to watch. So I attribute my interest in these subjects to him. Tonite before an evening of Ghost Hunters episodes he explained to me his new theory as to why the governments of the world, particularly the U.S. would keep knowledge of intelligent Extra Terrestrial life top secret. In the past we've pondered the idea that the existence of aliens would really screw up the divinity of Jesus and other deities in the other religions and cause a mass hysteria. But that theory hinges on the importance of religion in the world. My dads new theory actually makes way more sense. check it out...He described the defeatist attitude that poverty stricken areas or regions tend to get because they are very aware of people with more income and/or resources. In some instances this leads to them just giving up with a "nothing-to-lose" view of life. This leads some to turn to crime and drug abuse and a cycle of hopelessness. If the people of Earth were to discover that there is a race or other races in the universe that have better technology and possibly a generally better way of living the same defeatist attitude could effect the human race on a global scale to some extent. This combined with the religious implications could cause the human race to sort of lose its will to advance itself.
I think thats a pretty realistic theory. Another theory tho is that the aliens are hostile and they are threatening the governments with a death-ray to steal our Ozone Layer and supply of Dr.Pepper.
ACKK AAACK!! 
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I dunno, Kirk, I find your theories amusing. (and I spose by proxy your father's theories) But I'm the kinda guy who likes to argue for the sake of an argument.
It seems like you have a penchant to assume that 'aliens', whatever they may be, are a superior race. That they have mind blowing technology we could never have conceived on our own. But think about the probability that a race evolved on another planet. While there may be millions and millions of habitable planets, the chances of an alien species developing in a manner analogous enough to have technology that is even mildly applicable to the human condition is pretty slim. Couple that with the odds of our races actually discovering each other and the prospects look beaker still.
Sure space travel seems like a complicated ordeal, but think of it like ocean travel. Humans used to be heavily limited by bodies of water, but through technology and innovation we've developed ways to overcome that limitation. But whales or sea horses or plankton developed in a much different way and think nothing of traveling through water. They possess no readily applicable technology that would make sweet jetpacks or interstellar liferafts for us; we didn't even base our ocean travel on them. And those are fairly similar species to our own in the grand scale of things.
Also, there is more to our existence than technology. Music, dance, art, respect, love, Thursday must see tv. think of all the things that may differ between two earth-bound civilizations; and then try to imagine a non-parallel society (if that concept even exists) and how difficult it would be to rectify the two.
I do like this 'need to innovate' theory about why our governments are keeping aliens from us, but it seems to make a few assumptions that I'm not willing to leap to. This whole argument I'm making might lend credence to the 'earth populated by aliens that evolved into the human race' sect. But our fossil record is becoming much too strong for me to get on that train. Unless maybe the aliens exiled the stupidest of their species which slowly evolved into Neanderthal man...
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