finalark
SNORLAX
Why is it so hard for kids these days to read anything outside of tween vampire porn and backwards comics?
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How would society react to first contact with extraterrestrials?
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Who's to say that extraterrestrials would even develop at all similar to ourselves? I doubt that if we came across advanced alien life forms, sentient or not (meaning by the time we do, it could be because of our own explorative actions versus theirs) that we would outright fail to understand them socially and physiologically. Life on earth developed in a very specific way. All continual life forms on this planet exist for the sole purpose of special sustenance. We continue to reproduce and refine earth's materials to shelter and protect that reproduction.
Who's to say we are not already experiencing aliens in the form of extradimensional beings, who only by unrefined methodology can even scratch the surface of our plane? Perhaps we've been coexisting with life forms as they would appear and develop beyond our experienced dimensions: we develop based on chemistry, they however may be quantum beings. Perhaps they are native to earth and are currently bound to it as we are. Perhaps earth is but a city in their grasp of reality, easy to travel to from the likes of the Moon or Mars. Regardless, earth to them would not be what we know it to be. It would be substantial, but not necessarily composed of minerals.
We have a restrained understanding of reality and those in the top-most echelons of the current world are working to build upon and maintain that restrainment of reality. For instance, Amendment s510 to the Bill of Rights (as proposed by the FDA) would illegalize the growth of food on both public and private property so the government can control everything we consume. Control what people consume, nutrient-based or not (as contrasted with products such as entertainment) and you restrain the ability of the masses to contemplate reality and thus create a drone race. They'll do the necessary work so you can build your fantasy world. That's all they're doing. Everyone has their own idea of reality. Despite human compassion, we're all alien to eachother.
A sentient alien species coming to earth would disrupt society and terrify people. We would react out of fear, be that through violence or not. We have an innate drive to sustain our species. It is in our nature. Aliens can be seen as a threat to that continuity. I ask this: why would we ever travel to another planet? To inhabit it and use its resources to maintain the continuity of our species. If aliens came here, they would do the same. Extraterrestrials do not need to study us as anthropologists. If they are currently doing so, then they do so to identify just how and when to strike for maximum effect so they can take what we have. There are two types of species: those willing to share space, and those willing to occupy as much space as possible. We are the latter and any species composed anything like us that makes it to space would do the same.
With that being said, I truly hope that we come into contact with extraterrestrials within my life time. I am an advocate of such an idea in history and fiction and would love to see the ramifications that the human species would have to take. I would love to see this species band together for a fight, or completely die trying.
Who's to say we are not already experiencing aliens in the form of extradimensional beings, who only by unrefined methodology can even scratch the surface of our plane? Perhaps we've been coexisting with life forms as they would appear and develop beyond our experienced dimensions: we develop based on chemistry, they however may be quantum beings. Perhaps they are native to earth and are currently bound to it as we are. Perhaps earth is but a city in their grasp of reality, easy to travel to from the likes of the Moon or Mars. Regardless, earth to them would not be what we know it to be. It would be substantial, but not necessarily composed of minerals.
We have a restrained understanding of reality and those in the top-most echelons of the current world are working to build upon and maintain that restrainment of reality. For instance, Amendment s510 to the Bill of Rights (as proposed by the FDA) would illegalize the growth of food on both public and private property so the government can control everything we consume. Control what people consume, nutrient-based or not (as contrasted with products such as entertainment) and you restrain the ability of the masses to contemplate reality and thus create a drone race. They'll do the necessary work so you can build your fantasy world. That's all they're doing. Everyone has their own idea of reality. Despite human compassion, we're all alien to eachother.
A sentient alien species coming to earth would disrupt society and terrify people. We would react out of fear, be that through violence or not. We have an innate drive to sustain our species. It is in our nature. Aliens can be seen as a threat to that continuity. I ask this: why would we ever travel to another planet? To inhabit it and use its resources to maintain the continuity of our species. If aliens came here, they would do the same. Extraterrestrials do not need to study us as anthropologists. If they are currently doing so, then they do so to identify just how and when to strike for maximum effect so they can take what we have. There are two types of species: those willing to share space, and those willing to occupy as much space as possible. We are the latter and any species composed anything like us that makes it to space would do the same.
With that being said, I truly hope that we come into contact with extraterrestrials within my life time. I am an advocate of such an idea in history and fiction and would love to see the ramifications that the human species would have to take. I would love to see this species band together for a fight, or completely die trying.
Sephiroths Masamune
Shocodoro Blagshidect
Why do we assume that they won't accidentally bring viruses with them? We assume our viruses and bacteria will kill all of them, which is safe to assume since it kill alot of us. But what if they accidentally bring some kind of mass extinction virus. Kind of how the Europeans brought small pox to the Americas.
Kanelol
Smash Lord
what if we trade all of our land for a few alien beads
then they give us alien casinos
then they give us alien casinos
jiovanni007
Smash Ace
First off H.G. Wells is the author of War of the Worlds. Its the book where Earth is being invaded by aliens and humans have no hope of survival. Earth and the Human race is saved in the end by the rain which was carrying bacteria which killed off the alien invaders. The ending itself is a bit deus ex machina-ish but for some reason people loved it.
The point of me saying all of that is that you were making the assumption that beings that could travel at faster than light speed would have no knowledge of microscopic life and the dangers they can propose. You kinda cut my quote and took away the entire meaning of it when you did. My point wasn't that Humans are high and mighty because we're looking for microscopic life elsewhere, my point is that its ignorant to think aliens wouldn't take into account the possibility of microscopic life elsewhere. That plus if there are multicellular lifeforms elsewhere, its pretty much a guarantee that there are unicellular organisms as well.
The other side of my point is that beings capable of faster than light travel probably wouldn't have an issue sending an undetected probe to earth and taking samples. After taking sample they would have an idea of microscopic earth life. Of course they would have some sort of barrier between themselves and the outside world.
Also you can't really group viruses into the same group as bacteria. Viruses work by injecting a portion of their genetics directly into the nucleus of a specific species' cell. The altered DNA hijacks the organelles and causes them to produce copies of the virus instead of their normal function until the cells fills with viruses and ruptures sending more viruses throughout the body. TL;DR - Viruses need a specific cell type from a specific species to actually function.
Sariku
Smash Master
I personally do believe in the existance of ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence). I think that if contact was to happen though, that it has already done so in the past, and it's not something to look forward towards. If it has happened, it was way in the past or something tightly under wraps by the world's governments.
Kanelol
Smash Lord
It's literally outside of the capability for the human mind to conceive of how these "aliens" would think, act, or even exist. Psychonautics, religion, psychology, etc. are all just different words for the same thing: Finding some kind of way to fundamentally alter the way the average human mind thinks and perceives reality.
I've been to the brink of it, and the chasm of what the collective human consciousness does not and, to a certain extent, CAN not comprehend is indefinably vast. This all sounds like semantic babbling, I know, but I'm basically just reiterating what Spire said. It's hard to know. We might not even be able to communicate with these aliens.
Think of it like this, any of you who have ever had what you thought was a supernatural experience have had some kind of "extraterrestrial" contact.
I've been to the brink of it, and the chasm of what the collective human consciousness does not and, to a certain extent, CAN not comprehend is indefinably vast. This all sounds like semantic babbling, I know, but I'm basically just reiterating what Spire said. It's hard to know. We might not even be able to communicate with these aliens.
Think of it like this, any of you who have ever had what you thought was a supernatural experience have had some kind of "extraterrestrial" contact.
Fuelbi
Banned via Warnings
The hell do you think this is The X-Files or something?
Which reminds me
I actually have this hanging up in my room lol.
Or they could be Scientologists.
JPOBS
Smash Hero
I love how the main thing some people ITT have focused on is that an alien race capable of intergalactic travel, would be interested in us for our "resources" lmfao
One thing I'm more confident about is that a race capable of traveling to our planet would also be capable of existing or spending a substantial amount of time here. I don't agree with people that say "oh they wouldn't be able to cope with our gravity" or any of that ish. If they can come here, they would come prepared. In the same way, Nasa won't just send astronauts to a planet without being able to actually exist there in special suits etc.
But I agree with the notion that we can't possibly fathom how an extraterrestrial race would look, think, act, etc so idk.
One thing I'm more confident about is that a race capable of traveling to our planet would also be capable of existing or spending a substantial amount of time here. I don't agree with people that say "oh they wouldn't be able to cope with our gravity" or any of that ish. If they can come here, they would come prepared. In the same way, Nasa won't just send astronauts to a planet without being able to actually exist there in special suits etc.
But I agree with the notion that we can't possibly fathom how an extraterrestrial race would look, think, act, etc so idk.
If extra terrestial life does exist, I highly doubt it'd be capable of surviving in our environment, let alone communicating with us, given that the conditions they were formed in would be vastly different to ours.
jiovanni007
Smash Ace
They would probably be traveling trans-galactic, not intergalactic.
Actually I think it'd be more awkward for the aliens who if they had a religion, would have their own doctrines/prophets etc.
It'd be awkward because the first thing they'd experience is people throwing Bibles and Qur'ans in their faces.
Dude of course. Each planet has a unique composition and situation, therefore, it could have valuable resources. Also consider that intergalactic travel means huge ships, probable huge population and such things, and it wouldn't be at all unusual for aliens to be interested in resources. I mean it's like if some random country stumbled upon crude oil and didn't trade it to America, you know they're next on the Axis of Evil.
Anyway, also it'd be funny if they found some massively common things like granite to be rare and precious jewellery material.
Nicknyte
Smash Lord
We would find out that they believe in Jesus as well.
What really makes or break first contact is understanding body messages. Is Happy happy, or is Happy more like crying, or a look of disgust?
What really makes or break first contact is understanding body messages. Is Happy happy, or is Happy more like crying, or a look of disgust?
Fuelbi
Banned via Warnings
I was actually thinking about this now. It would be so lol if something as common as granite was worth huge spacebucks lol
We'd welcome them with open arms if they looked like this
Fuelbi
Banned via Warnings
I'm pretty sure they'd look like thisWe'd welcome them with open arms if they looked like this
finalark
SNORLAX
In that case that would be centuries below us technologically but if James Carmon is to be believed they're a superior species because they have a Jesus tree.I'm pretty sure they'd look like this
I would hope that the Alien race we may make first contact with looks something like this:
But knowing our luck it will be closer to this:
JPOBS
Smash Hero
What I meant was, a species capable of intergalactic (or transgalactic as someone else pointed out) travel, would likely have conquered to boundaries of resource limitations. They fact that they could pull it off says to me that they probably already discovered a means of energy use far beyond our imagination.
Space travel doesn't strike me as the kinda thing a species would/could do if they didn't have a more than ample supply of whatever they need. Its like "hey lets travel across the galaxy and use up all these resources and pray to Deity Power Man that what we find can help us." yea...not really.
although i agree that they could potentially discover something brand new and useful on our planet (granite lol) and use it, but its not like they'd come here hoping to harvest essentials.
I really doubt any ET's are going to end up looking even vaguely humanoid. They are probably going to look like amorphous blobs with a billion a*sholes
Kanelol
Smash Lord
They're out there, and they look like this
