Valuable Thing in a Trade Deal With Aliens
by Mirjam Guesgen Jun 13, 2018 (motherboard.vice.com)
• Daniel Helman, professor of Labor Relations and Trade Unions at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam thinks that one way to avoid an intergalactic war with extraterrestrials is to trade with them in commerce. And what do we have that they want? DNA.
• Helman proposed the idea of trading plant, animal and human DNA with ETs at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles in May. He says that trading tools, weapons, or technology wouldn’t appeal to a highly advanced ET civilization. But they might share their advanced technology with us if we offered them something they don’t already have – our planet’s DNA.
• Helman envisions a DNA marketing package with the DNA sample (spit, blood, hair…), the genetic code, and breakdown of the organism’s history with images, maps, evolutionary chart and environmental needs.
• Trading DNA will also serve to preserve our planet’s genetic information in case of a species’ extinction or a global catastrophe.
• Dr Nikola Schmidt, a political scientist from Charles University in Prague, thinks it’s hardly strange to be contemplating life on other planets, or our potential interactions with them. Schmidt works in planetary defense, ie: the field of research tasked with figuring out how to protect Earth from outside influences – from asteroid to ETs. Schmidt’s concern is what some ET beings might do with the genetic information we give them. “They might, for example, make diseases targeted to us,” says Schmidt.
• Daniel Ross, a PhD candidate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, thinks that the way to approach our interaction with alien civilizations should be to first understand their language, seek common ground, and find fair and equal ways to co-exist without one culture being suppressed by another.
• Helman’s theories are part of a group effort by ethicists, planetary scientists, linguists, and other scientific and arts scholars to prepare for extraterrestrial contact. Helman sees an international, non-profit, scientific advisory group as a way to take discussions, and potential plans, further. There’s no group like this discussing intergalactic trade yet. “Humanity is at a wonderful time right now for available technology and scientific advances,” said Helman, “It makes sense to look at the options …for various futures.”
• [Editor’s Note] By coincidence, Corey Goode and Emery Smith discuss “genetic trading” with other species that is already being conducted in the secret space programs on the June 12th “Cosmic Disclosure”, S11-E3 (GaiaTV). Corey has said that the Interplanetary Corporate Conglomerate Space Program is already trading commodities with over 900 ET civilizations, including mass-produced technological devices and human slaves.
While we haven’t seen any signs of extraterrestrial beings on the galactic horizon just yet, some scientists have mounted a serious effort to prepare for their arrival. One of the biggest conundrums post-encounter, and one that a raft of sci-fi movies seem to fail miserably at solving, is how to avoid a Mars Attacks-style bloodbath and the potential end of our civilization.
One solution might be: Instead of engaging in warfare, why not try trading with aliens instead? That’s the idea put forth by Daniel Helman, professor of Labor Relations and Trade Unions at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam. We’ve even got a commodity here on Earth worthy of an intergalactic trade agreement, Helman says: DNA—from animals, plants… even us.
Helman proposed the idea at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles in May. When I talked to him on the phone afterward, he explained why the usual Earthling trading goods—tools, weapons, or technology—just wouldn’t cut it with extraterrestrials. Any alien civilization that makes contact with Earth is probably way more advanced than us, and wouldn’t be interested in our technological relics, he said. They might, however, be interested in sharing some of their cutting-edge technologies or scientific insights in exchange for something they couldn’t get at home.
Helman said what makes genetic information so unique is that it is the result of millions of years of evolution and interaction with Earth’s particular environment. Essentially, it’s a record of everything that’s happened on Earth up to this point, from mass extinctions to the industrial revolution. “Our environment is unique, hence the genetics of all the organisms here and in the solar system are unique,” explained Helman.
Here’s how a trade deal with aliens might go down, explained Helman. First, you would need to collect DNA from the wildlife in question—blood, spit, hair… anything that contains the building blocks of life as we know it. Then, all the genetic information of a particular organism would need to be decoded by scientists (such as the Human Genome Project, which concluded in 2003). That genetic information would be parcelled up with the organism’s life history: pictures of it, maps of where it lives, charts of its evolution, and details of how the environment affects the expression of those genes (epigenetics). What you would get is a neat little package of pretty much everything that constitutes a living being, aside from the actual being itself.
Trading DNA comes with the added benefit of preserving genetic information elsewhere, said Helman. It’s like a conservation insurance policy for Earth, in case we wipe out life all by ourselves through nuclear war or climate change. The possibility of a civilizational insurance policy might also drive people to try harder to conserve creatures now, reasoned Helman.
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