I like to think it’s also the aliens’ first contact too, and they’re really happy to find us after groping around alone in the darkness.
Do you mean like if an alien just showed up on my doorstep and was like, “take me to your leader”? Because I would ask, “How about we just chill here for a bit?” because nothing good is going to come from the next part.
Maybe we can all just pretend that Bernie is our leader. It’s a nice thought anyways.
Okay but whatever the case, please remember that Barack Obama volunteered to be the ambassador for such an event. So if an alien shows up at your doorstep please contact Barack obama.
We’d better hope they don’t have healing technology to share with us because he’ll give it to the insurance industry to manage after slapping a few guard rails on it.
A fantastic amount of talking. The militaries would want to be in readiness, for example, just in case the extraterrestrials are not friendly, and the diplomatic corps would be doing their best to figure out how to communicate with them.
A lot of religions might also be thrown a bit into the air by the arrival of aliens, so there would be some chatter there, too.
Are aliens subject to human rights? Are they beings also made in God’s image, etc.
At this point?
I see 100% of the world, all the narcissists and psychopaths in power, asking them to please take them away from this horrible world
Take me wit u?
War, then our extermination.
I think in the event of war, it would be about as long as the time it takes for us to announce the war until it’s over. The technology to freely planet hop from another solar system is like the large hadron collider vs an ant using a leaf to cross a puddle.
Oh yeah, that’s exactly how I see it going down. Before we could finish saying “kill ‘em all!” they’d have killed us all.
Die of some random common illness we don’t have any antibodies for.
Hopefully a species advanced enough to master interstellar travel would be mindful of that kind of thing though. I suppose at least they would probably be protecting themselves against that, so maybe it would go both ways?
I’ve heard that carbon is not necessarily the best basis for self replicating structures. Silicon is able to form a lot of similarly complex bonds that carbon is with a similar chain of reactions to our own. I don’t know if another life form from the ground up would even have diseases, although I guess cancer is pretty likely in any self replicating system due to cosmic rays. That would make it pretty hard to space travel though, one would expect their repair mechanisms to far excel beyond the durability of our own, which is actually pretty crap and easily confused with symmetrical DNA chains, excessive damage, repeating sequences, etc. There are other animals on earth that have better repair systems in place than us allowing them to live virtually forever, but none are mammals. Biological Immortality Wiki
Our strongest EMP rays did nothing to them, but in the end they succumbed to a simple stick.
There is also just the possibility that their common illness affects something biologically they possess that we do not.
I too hope the protections would go both ways. I guess it depends if whatever they’d exhaust is toxic to us
Something similar to what happened to india or Indonesia when the British/ Dutch showed up
They would be sick of our shit in 5 minutes
I don’t think it would be in the advantage of a smart civ to willfully contact another smart civ till it is confirmed that the “to be contacted” civ has a really good understanding of game theory.
You cannot negotiate mutually assured destruction with a civ that does not understand what mutually assured destruction means.
Do I think we would be destroyed if some other alien civ finds us? No. If civ A observes civ B destroying civ C, everyone would want to destroy civ B immediately. The possibility of there being peaceful contact for civ B goes away.
Also, contacting us must be in the benefit of the civ that contacts us (assuming they are rational).
Watch the movie “Contact” for a good depiction of this.
To be realistic I think they would have scanned our airwaves and observed from afar and decided to get the hell out of this quadrant of the galaxy. If they needed our resources then it would be like the “Independence Day” movie, only the aliens would easily win.
Hopefully more like war of the worlds.
“hey check out this video, they have a contingency plan if we send in ground troops”
“They sneeze on us and we die?”
“… We have to check if that works.”
- They remove our ability to leave the planet.
- Continually
Done.
When one civilization meets another, far more advanced, civilization, what tends to happen to the less advanced one?
Yeah, that. It’s gonna suck.
Doubtful. That happened here because we need both resources and living space while harvesting those resources. Anything aliens need can be gotten from hundreds of dead worlds and asteroids and stars. And any civilization able to cross galaxies should be able to make their own mobile livingspaces just as comfortable as a planet.
Except maybe they can’t do any of that any more, and they’re living a nomadic existence as the remnants of a civilization near the end of its life and a stellar event pushed them onto a fleet of generation ships and they’ve centuries roaming in ships that are increasingly taking apart around them.
Just because you can launch a ship or 3000 into space doesn’t mean you can do it well or all that safely.
After all, we have the technology right now, to build such a generational fleet of ships and send them off. We just don’t do it because there’s no real impetus to do so, but I can guarantee that if we knew for certain that absolute death was coming our way with no way of stopping it, escaping would be one of the things we would try to do.
Being able to get here doesn’t mean squat if it was just a random choice based on old light and a “that star looks like the best candidate we can reach in less than 300 years.”
Just because humans haven’t gone outside the orbit of earth doesn’t mean we don’t have the capability of it. We’re just trying to do it safely.
Imagine if we didn’t care how many died as long as some of us made it?
I mean that’s how the old USSR did things…
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I mean, at that point you’re saying they’re not much more advanced than us, soooo… I’d place bets on us shooting them out of the sky.
Except they have the high ground. They can drop rocks on us.
Also, being able to use technical devices doesn’t mean you understand them or know how to make them.
Maybe the civilization they were in before would be able to do all that, but they can’t now, doesn’t mean they don’t still have a few “super weapons” they can fall back on.
Or, like I said, just throw heavy objects at us. It’s easier to go from orbit to ground than from ground to orbit.
Pretty sure we’d have no communication with the alien that wasn’t just corrupt politicians trying to speak for us to get some sort of trade out of them to increase their own power. It’s too important for any/all normal people to have a voice, and then when the aliens dislike the abhorrent greed we’ll probably just suffer some how more than we already do. I’d say we’re better off not reporting any alien sightings. I would trust almost any human on earth more talking to aliens on my behalf than a so called leader currently. Maybe Ireland, Spain, a handful of others have better than regular Joe leaders, but it’s rare.
Not sure but I have said that it’ll happen under Trump. It has to. The way things go lately this is just expected at this point
