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This Web site is to establish a conversation between Earth's societies and those of our communities:

Earth

Earth people we arrived in your neighborhood about a year ago and have studied your communities extensively. We are, therefore, ready to engage in an open dialogue with you.

We feel you have embarked on a very perilous course and would like to intervene to prevent your self destruction and that of your entire biosphere. Biospheres that have reached or surpassed your level of development are very rare indeed. On the average they occur inside a galaxy at an average distance of 5,000 light year (LY). This is why you have not been visited in your entire history. This also means that any extra terrestrial (ET) civilization that visits you is way ahead of you in science & techology, and therefore power.

You need not be afraid of us. In fact, we would like very much to guide you to a path of sustainable and peaceful development. We can also greatly expedite your development. However do not even remotely contemplate any hostile action against us since we have the power to utterly destroy your planet.

To convince you of the extent of our powers we have scheduled a series of demonstrations of our capabilities. These demonstrations will take place on successive Mondays on respectively London, Tokyo and Los Angeles local time. The demonstrations will be as follows:

First Monday: A huge Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) will paralize all electronic and electrical systems on roughly a third of the Earth. This means that the affected regions will lose all electric power, all radio & TV communications, all Internet, all cable TV, all cars, busses & trucks will stall, all airplanes should not be flying if they want to avoid crashing, all manners of ships & boats will drift powerless. etc.. To avoid significant catastrophes we will limit the EMP to 5 minutes from 12:00 noon to 12:05 PM.
Second Monday: At local midnight in London, Tokyo & LA we will cause a huge display of Northen Lights (Aurora Borealis) of an unsual intensity and reaching as far down as the Equator. The display will last for an hour from 12:00 midnight to 1:00 AM.
Third Monday: We will explode three asteroids in the belt between Mars and Jupiter. The three asteroids will be chosen so each will be visible from the regions of the earth visible from the London, Tokyo & LA time zones. The explosions will take place at 10:00 PM local time and be very visible in the local sky.

We believe that such demos will convince you of the awesome powers we posses and quell any bellicose intentions on your part. Next we would like to summarize our assessment of your predicaments at this stage of your development.

In our opinion you are facing a number of perilous conditions each of which can result in the utter destruction of your species and, in some cases, even the destruction of good part or all the Earth's biosphere. The major perils, their causes and potential remedies are:

There is no world government. The United Nations (UN) structure that was set up, about hundred years ago, by the victors of WW II is constitutionally flawed, and rendered obsolete by the development of your world in the last century.
The veto power held by Oceania (two votes originally: USA & UK), Eurabia (originally France), Asia (China & Russia), is too blunt a constitutional instrument, and leads to UN impotence in the face of all but trivial international conflict. The veto power was possibly acceptable, in a world dominated by a few major colonial powers, and populated by a great many lesser states, the majority of such states being at the early agrarian or even pre-agrarian development state.
Today's world is quite different. It is absurd that major nations such as India, Brasil, Argentina, Australia and the entire continent of Africa do not partake of such veto power. On the other hand expanding the number of veto holders vill simply increase UN's paralysis. It is imperative that a constitutional solution be formulated that fosters the emergence of qualified majorities and be a force for progress and innovation instead of paralysis.
A suggestion for a possible constitutional solution can come from the almost four century old USA constitution. That constitution solved the problem of how to balance the power of the large states versus the small ones by instituting a Senate where all the states have equal representation (two senators for each state). That is, the House is elected on the basis of equal voting rights for all citizens of the states. The Senate is elected on the basis of two seats for each state regardless of their respective populations sizes.
Unfortunately assigning a fixed number of seats to each of the Earth nations would not work since there are too many small nations & they could easily overwhelm the major ones in the upper house. A solution which appears to us to be viable, is to assign to each nation a number of seats proportional to its GNP. The world economy produces about 60 trillion dollars of output. Therefore, a rule that would assign seats on the basis of the lower integer multiple of .2 trillion or 200 Billion dollars would yield a world Senate with 300 seats. Such an allocation formula would also have the beneficial effect of creating a powerful incentive, on a nation political class, to create incentives for economic, scientific, technological and cultural development, that is, maximizing GNP and not just population growth. The latter being, as we shall see in a moment, the root cause of most of the other Earth's ailments.
There is no world theology: that is, there is no world wide consensus on the relation of Man to the Creation. There are hundreds of creation stories. Virtually all human cultures have their own distinctive creation story. These together with sets of moral rules form the basis of the many religions of Mankind. The lack of an universal credo system, in turn, prevents the emergence of a world wide systems of law & governance.
On the other hand, Science is capable of producing universal truths. For example, Earth Science has developed a world wide accepted consensus on how creation occurred. The consensus describes, except for the first 100th of a second, how the big cosmic explosion (Big Bang) occurred 13.7 Billion Year Ago (BYA) and how space & time together with matter (hydrogen (H) & helium (He) atoms) & energy were created. Furthermore, how starting 400,000 year after the Big Bang galaxy formation took place. Earth Science provides also a thorough description of how stars and elements beyond H and He were evolved. Planetary evolution is also understood to a considerable degree. Finally, biological evolution is coming into focus, at the present time, where the cooperation of Computer Science's computational complexity theory and Biology's Evolutionary Development (Evo Devo) are, for the first time on Earth, providing deep insights on how complex life forms develop. Demonstrating that Biology is a mere extension of carbon chemistry.

Two major points can be made:

All these findings are confirmed and refined by our own Science.
They all add up to one very important truth. Namely: All creation is the result of natural & spontaneous processes, in other words THE UNIVERSE CREATES ITSELF.

This does not mean necessarily the outright rejection of traditional religions, or their replacement by "progressive" Marxist faiths. In fact, the latter are inappropriate for the following reasons:

While Marxists proclaim that theirs is a "scientific" theory of history and politics, the fact is that they base their theories on the kind of mechanical robotized scientific paradigms known to the 18th century, that is Newtonian physics. These paradigms involve deterministic (predictable) systems. Modern Science has discovered that such predictable models are not the norm. In fact, both chaos theory and computability complexity theory show that most systems are not predictable at all. At the microscopic level quantum theory also injects considerable uncertainity when small aggregates of atomis & sub atomic systems are considered. In other words, the Marxists are both unscientific and extremely naive with regard to the true nature of complex entities such as biological, psychological and sociological systems.
As discussed in human evolution traditional religious faiths have evolutionary validity in the sense of steering the host culture(s) towards values and mores which are adaptive. Marxist faiths, besides not being scientific, have not been around long enough to prove their adaptive value. In the few cases where they were forcefully imposed as state religions they proved to be very misadaptive.

The note on human evolution gives some pointers on how a credo truly based on rationality (Science) could be formulated and adopted.

Orion

Let us say a few words about ourselves. We are a Dyson's type III civilization. Namely, we have progressed to the point that we can control the resources of an entire galaxy or at least a good portion of it. You, on the other hand, control the resources of your home planet Earth and are barely beginning to explore your own star system. Let us call our civilization Orion and its members Orionis.

Orion is a Galaxy wide network of communities. The communities are a network of planets, moons and space platforms spread throughout the Milky Way Galaxy which, as you know, is the home galaxy of your solar system. In other words, we are your galactic neighbors.

Orion is constantly on a look out for emerging Evo Devos, that is for evolutionary development processes, on the planets and moons in the star systems of the galaxy. This search is especially focused on locating Evo Devos which have produced self aware species such as your own.

Orion is a sylicon based life-form based on applying EvoDevo massively parallel computing network principles to sylicon based nano computers. This allows our "life" forms to survive in a very broad range of environs & to have very long lifetimes. Both of these enabling us to travel across the huge expanses of the galaxy and therefore to exert the galaxy wide control of a Dyson'stype III civilization.

Sylicon based life other advantage: store & retrieve massive amounts of information cheaply & rapidly. Training of Orion persons reduced to uploading one or more pre-recorded volumes of information. This can be done in a fraction of time & cost as carbon based life learning processes

The way we discover interesting Evo Devo processes depends on the distance between our platforms and the planet or moon being observed. Below we sketch what activities and criteria we use for the different distance ranges:

At very long distance of at least 100 light years (LY): locate very long lived stars, namely G, K & M star types. Such stars are easy to locate since all one needs to do is to obtain their light spectrum, These stars live in excess of 10 billion years on the main sequence, therefore they have enough time to allow a truly complex Evo Devo process to develop. We have developed quite complete maps of such stars in a region spanning about 1% of the Milky Way radius (500 LY).
Next we focus on some of the above stars at a medium long distance (10 LY). We then look for planetary systems with nearly circular orbits. This is again easy to detect, at least for those planetary systems that have planets as large as Jupiter or Saturn. In fact, one can detect the gravitational pull of large planets on the star by studying the frequency shifts of the star light due to its to and fro motion. The circularity of the large planets orbits does not completely guarantees that of the smaller planets (if any). Circular orbits are required to insure resonable planetary seasonal weather excursions.
We, then select some of the above planetary systems located at a medium distance of 1 LY from one of our observing platforms. In the case of these systems we focus on detecting inner rocky planets in the life friendly zone of their star. The life friendly zone being the volume around the star where a planet with suitable atmosphere could have a surface temperature in the range for liquid water (0 to 100 degree centigrades or 32 to 180 degree Farenheight)
The next step in the process is to locate, among the planets so discovered, wether we can discover from a short distance (1 light month (LM)) oxigen in the planetary athmosphere. Abundant atmospheric oxigen being a good indicator of the presence of life beyond the ciano bacteria level.
A very good detector of advanced life forms is the presence of non random electromagnetic radiation This can be done from a very short distance of 1 light Day (LD).
Once we can observe from an ultra-short distance 1 light hour (LH)we begin to capture video emissions by discovering the raster standard being used.
Finally at the super short distance of 1 light minute (LMin) we learn the written/oral language(s) being used.
As soon as the major languages are mastered we set up many Orion teams to learn the political, judicial, financial, etc. structures of the the target societies. Similarly for the various sciences. Each team to make a report to the general Orion assembly.
One of the activities in this learning mode is to learn to use the target communication infrastructure & computer net, if one exists, this is done by learning the wireless protocol(s) and having Orion devices implement them so that they can become effective net users of the target net.
Next we locate a convenient hiding place such as, deep in the target ocean, or in the opposite face of a moon in gravitational lock with the target. We hide the major spaceship in such a place so that one can be very near the target without danger of discovery.
We use all the collected information to diagnose the status of the target society. Especially its proclivities for self destruction by either nuclear annihilation or fatal alteration of the environment.
Formulate a plan of action, if needed, for remedial of dangerous conditions.
Next we move to nano distances of 1 light second (LSec) or less and begin the infiltration of the target society. We do this by building life-like simulations of members of the target population. Such simulations are virtually indistiguishable from native members of the target population short of murdering them.
During the next phase we proceed to the simultaneous capture & replacement of the political & cultural elites of all the nations, federations & other political entities in the target world. The captives are replaced by Orion simulations
Next we proceed with an indoctrination program aimed at achieving a world wide (WW) consensus on a WW credo. A Common WW credo being a necessary condition to reach a WW rule of law. Such indoctrination is best done as a new WW revelation. We use Orion's advanced technology to monopolize the TV nets & selected I-net sites to spread the "voice of God". Steer towards accepting the idea that revelation must accord & agree with Truth as discovered by Science. Convince the masses by using the Orion's advanced technology to perform spectacular miracles.
Next phase is the formation of the world government: WW constitutional convention.
Constitutional principles: High Chamber: one seat per .2 T$ of GDP, Low Chamber 1 seat per 10 Mpers. High has veto power super plurality. Power divided in three branches of government: Executive, Legislative & Judiciary. Central World Bank independence. Election laws. Subsidiarity principle delegating powers to lowest geographic entities if at all possible.

More About Us

We are not Carbon based life forms (C-bio) as you are. We are Sylicon based life forms (S-bio). S-bio life has many great advantages over C-bio life forms. They can inhabit a much wider range of environments. They can live extremely long lives. Both of these characteristics make it possible for S-bio life forms to explore and colonize vast sections of the Galaxy. A virtually impossible feat for C-bio life forms. C-bio life forms have only one major advantage. Namely, they can be self bootstrapping. Below we briefly sketch how S-bio forms emerge and take over from C-bio forms.

The transition from carbon biology to silicon biology takes place once an intelligent species gets to the point of fully understanding the working of C-biology brains so that they can begin to develop S-bio functionally equivalent structures. Once such S-bio intelligences arise it is very likely that they will take over. For example such S-bio minds may live for centuries therefore they have great odds of accumulating huge wealth & thus control society. It is very likely that they rapidily evolve superior intelligences vis vis C-bio brains. Eventually they dominate & even get rid of C-bio minds. S-bio intelligences will leave alone and even protect the lower C-bio species.
Science eventually understands the brain the way your science understands EvoDevo & the NDD process. Once that happens the first S-bio brains will emerge shortly. Eventually this leads to the disappearance of the human species. Rather this will be the transformation of human society & culture into S-bio society & culture. Such a culture will be able to explore the Galaxy.