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.
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).
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?
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…
I forgetted a word
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.
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
- They remove our ability to leave the planet.
- Continually
Done.
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.”
Seeing how incohrrent and fractured humanity is, we’d meet them with a jumbled mix of:
- Rabid xenophobia
- Aggressively trying to convert them to a dozen of our different religions
- Forming multiple cults worshipping them as gods
- Creating a shit load of really weird rule 34 AI-generated porn focused on them
- Dismissing their existence as some sort of a deep fake conspiracy
- Trying to sell them some worthless shit for a massive profit
- Trying to sell them fellow humans as slaves
- Trying to steal their technology to conquer the galaxy
- Flooding then with brainrot memes for the lolz
- Trying to destroy them with conventional weapons
And they would see all this and either destroy us in disgust or get the hell out of the solar system ASAP and cordon it off with hazard signs.
You forgot “eat them”.
The real answer to the Fermi paradox is that ET wants nothing to do with us and pretend they’re not even there.
The reality of course, is they already have seen what we are like and chose not to talk to us.
Don’t forget, someone from 4chan’s /x/ would try to fuck one of them. In public. At the reveal.
Or maybe they’d be totally into the rule34 thing.
I like the one about the memes.
Watch the movie “Contact” for a good depiction of this.
They would be sick of our shit in 5 minutes
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.
Anal probe.
