+1. Good read, thanks. I actually wonder if we would ever make that contact (whether we or they) I wonder if they would be more advanced or less. Lets assume more - then it would be interesting to see if it took them more time to come up with solutions to certain problems we facing, and R&D of hard stuff like anti-gravity, etc. And then, even more interesting, how fast would our world change and what kind of implication on an average Joe would it had, if they would agree on sharing all those "secrets". It would be like putting entire human kind on fast forward into year 2,500. Imagine someone handing you a recipe book: Chapter 1. how to travel faster than light; Chapter 2. how to teleport goods and living organisms; 3. how to grow safe food loaded five times more with nutritions; Chapter 4. how to generate electricity without harming environment; Chapter 5. how to extend human life up to 250 years. Chapter 6. how to peacefully transform world into more friendly place :)
I'm not sure if this would interest you, but there are some theories suggest that you can "use" your mind to travel through the universe, faster than the speed of light, you can also "use" your mind to slow down time, travel through time and also slow down your ageing process. Before I say anything, let me make it clear that I'm neither being biased towards nor am I trying to promote any religion, I just want to share whatever I've read so far - There are many REAL Hindu saints (not the ones on TV) who advocate this theory, they say that death is something that should not be taken for granted, rather you should fight against it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramalinga_Swamigal). According to them, your life-span depends on the rate at which you breathe - the slower you breathe, the longer you live. Many saints in Hindu mythology, have lived in terms of multiples of hundreds of years. Many books even say there are archaeological evidences to support these facts. But honestly, I've never taken the pains to find out citations for them. nevertheless, its always interesting to read such stuff.
