Thanks for your UAP paper. BTW, on your paper, I would definitely mention the Laboratory Hypothesis, which was indeed a variant on Ball’s original Zoo Hypothesis. Also, note there are different kinds of zoo, i.e., ones varying from a collection of cages to safari parks, and of course, zoo ‘keepers’ are subject to functionally differentiated roles, from receptionists to veterinarians, and tourists are differentiated, from specialists to school parties, from different interstellar civilizations—and not all civilizations follow the rules to the same extent. The enormous variation between staff and visitors explains the diversity in legitimate UAP activity. Note also due to the case of a small number of both existing interstellar civilizations and emergent stellar civilizations, the number of Contact situations is low, so zoo policy for Earth (and other planets) is an ongoing issue. Note zoo protocols change over time, as does tourist behaviour, as we have seen in the last century on Earth. The Star Trek ‘Prime Directive’, while it exists for Earth on the basis of autonomous development combined with Life on Earth answering the meaning of the universe, is therefore weak and somewhat variable.
Alexei,
Thanks for your UAP paper. BTW, on your paper, I would definitely mention the Laboratory Hypothesis, which was indeed a variant on Ball’s original Zoo Hypothesis. Also, note there are different kinds of zoo, i.e., ones varying from a collection of cages to safari parks, and of course, zoo ‘keepers’ are subject to functionally differentiated roles, from receptionists to veterinarians, and tourists are differentiated, from specialists to school parties, from different interstellar civilizations—and not all civilizations follow the rules to the same extent. The enormous variation between staff and visitors explains the diversity in legitimate UAP activity. Note also due to the case of a small number of both existing interstellar civilizations and emergent stellar civilizations, the number of Contact situations is low, so zoo policy for Earth (and other planets) is an ongoing issue. Note zoo protocols change over time, as does tourist behaviour, as we have seen in the last century on Earth. The Star Trek ‘Prime Directive’, while it exists for Earth on the basis of autonomous development combined with Life on Earth answering the meaning of the universe, is therefore weak and somewhat variable.