Poll: Should we fear aliens?

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SonicKoala

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It depends - if District 9 is to be believed, then aliens should be a hell of a lot more afraid of us, because we're total douchebags who will stick anybody who seems "strange" to us into ghettos in an instant.

On the other hand, if every other movie about aliens is to be believed, then yes - we should be very afraid.
 

OmegaXzors

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I'm pretty sure that "aliens" wouldn't be hostile at all. The fact that we're the ONLY life form in the entire universe? Bullshit.
 

Mcface

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DaMan1500 said:
One of my friends told me this theory about why we should stop trying to find life on other planets that he said he got from Stephen Hawking. Aparently, the universe is so obscenely big that odds are we aren't the only ones in it. And if aliens manage to find and reach us before we reach them, then they're clearly more technologically advance than us. And pretty much every encounter in human history between two civilizations with different levels of technology has ending in the more advance civilization killing/raping all the other guys and taking their stuff. So, if an entire civilization of alien critters has taken the trouble of finding us and traveling whatever absurd distance there is between us and them, they probably just want our resources. After all, it would probably be close to impossible for our two species to overcome the massive cultural/biological differences between us and actually comunicate, and even if we did there probably won't be anything we can tell them that they havn't already figured out for themselves. Does any of this sound plausible?
People assume "aliens" are just these awesome peace loving creatues. when in reality, to become so evolved that you are in space, you have to be an aggressive, strong race. Humans are an Agressive, strong race. So would any aliens evolved enough to get to us. Meaning they would know they are tougher, and would display that.
 

Code Monkey

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"If you come in peace, surrender or be destroyed. If you're here to declare war, we surrender."
 

KeyMaster45

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If aliens are smart they will stay the hell away from us. I mean for god's sake just look at the state of the world. We're slowly depleting our natural resources, we're fighting each other in bloody inch by inch stalemate battles for little shit hole chunks of land, and to top it off we've let Tom Cruise roam free!

If I were to examine the earth as a passing alien I'd be damn sure to leave a sign somewhere that said "Keep flying and they won't notice you".

Any civilization capable of long distance space travel wouldn't even bother to give us the time of day. "We come in peace." Bullshit. Any peaceful race would realize we've still got alot of growing up to do, and visiting us would result in the loss of many a red-shirt on their part. No, any race that decides to land here and make its presence known will be looking to turn us into a skin colored smear under its boot (metaphorically speaking) and because of their advanced technology that won't be much of a problem.

In short, when told they come in peace just nod your head and slip a note to the nearest person to nuke the suckers before they can get their shields up.

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Cody211282

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Shawshanker said:
Maybe the other civilization, because it's so advanced, will know that war is wrong and try to make a peaceful contact. But knowing that humanity is a buch of morons, we will probably fuck it up somehow.

Aliens should be afraid of us.
well this is way to optimistic, I seriously doubt that any lifeforms that has advanced space travel is against wars.
 

HK_01

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I guess that really depends on the alien. Just like we have on earth, there's probably peaceful and warlike aliens.
 

xDarc

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Earth is a pit stop for at least some aliens. A refueling depo on the intergalatic highway. I think they need fresh water to refuel because I saw one come out of a lake once and "taxi" (like a plane) along side me on the expressway. The thing took off from 70mph, to hypersonic speed that caused it to disappear into a vanishing point high in the sky, in a tenth of a second.

I think they strip the hydrogen from the fresh water. If you think about it, there's really no other viable energy source on such a large scale in the universe... especially considering you'd likely need tons of energy to go around like that.
 

kahlzun

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Why do you think we've been getting so many space marine games lately??

THEY KNOW THAT THEY ARE COMING, AND THEY'RE MAKING SURE WE'RE READY!!!

Now, where's my Lancer??
 

Double A

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I love how half the people are saying "i'd kick der ass!" and the other half are saying to them "If they can get here from another galaxy, they could nuke us to another galaxy" and get completely ignored.

If they're more advanced than us, and we piss them off somehow, or they just want our planet, we're 100% boned.
 
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We're sorry but the current forum traffic is overloading the thread display hamsters? 0.o

OT: Maybe advanced alien races from millions of light-years away are avoiding us because they know a meeting between aliens and humans might end up in some kind of galactic civil war. Or they're monitoring what we're saying in this thread and on the internet in general and have arrived at the conclusion that we're too dumb to make a visit worthwhile.
 

Killbuzz

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I don't get some people. Like you people. Why can't anyone in this world ever appreciate that God created us in his image; created us alone. Being created in the image of a God, why would anyone think anything could ever bring us down except each other? And for that matter, Why would God make more than what He has?

Here, I've even got scriptural evidence that supports my theory of there being no aliens:

Genesis 3:20:
"... And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the MOTHER OF ALL LIVING"

Believe what you like, but I believe this to be the truth; that because she was the mother of all living, that the only living things in existence always have and always will reside on this little blue planet.

Not to mention, that God speaks of only this earth in great detail during creation, and individually created the earth, the plants, the animals, birds, etc, and finally man, in the greatest detail of all.

So basically, if you spend your life worrying about aliens or hoping someday we will "make contact", I am undoubtedly going to say that you are wasting your time, your life, and anything else that makes you human.
 

Maverick Siragusa

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if we ever do meet aliens im hoping that ill be one of the first on the trolley to war ive never liked aliens and if they are technologicaly Superior im not negotiating with them im going out in a blaze of glory ive never liked many kinds of life
 

gbemery

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I for one think it is kind of futile to think of what might happen. You can only try to infer what will happen from a human perspective, and from our perspective a more technologically advance people will usually enslave, in some way, but never really help a less advanced people. Or you could compare it to man vs. ants. But how many times have we looked at different Earth cultures, let alone completely alien cultures, and been confused as to why they do certain things? It is completely possible that we can't even fathom what they will do or think when they see us.

Yes they would have to be, from our standpoint, very technologically advanced to get here. Would they want our resources? It is possible, but it is also possible that they are advanced to the point where they don't need to strip mine planets. They might be able to form what they need on an atomic level with just excess materials in asteroid belts, or the raw materials from a nebula. I mean hell they might be advanced enough to know how everything started and from where it came so they might be able to pull materials from a source we may not even be able to comprehend yet. They also might just be advanced enough to produce vastly efficient power sources and have created cornucopia technology and not need much to fuel it. They could also be out here for just purely exploration purposes.

To try and wrap up I again don't think we can even come close to knowing what aliens might do. We have problems enough knowing what another person might do in a certain situation. Yes, we can guess and possibly be correct or mostly correct, as to how another human might act but we make our inferences and judgments from a completely human perspective of the world, life, religion and everything else that makes us who we are. We then take that perspective and assume what another human, with the same or similar views of the world, might do. That is the criteria we have of judging what an alien race might do. Its just highly unlikely we could make accurate assumptions as to what they would do. When we 'walk a mile in another person's shoes' we imagine ourselves in their position. We look out at the world through human eyes and comprehend its human problems with a human mind and human way of thinking. Now try to 'walk a mile in an alien's shoes'. You really can't because you have no proper base criteria to comprehend how they might view the world with alien eyes or how they might comprehend their alien problems with an alien mind and alien way of thinking. You would base your criteria on judging the alien's perspective from our human perspective which is completely alien to them.
 

SL33TBL1ND

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We.
Are.
Never.
Going.
To.
Make.
Contact.
With.
Aliens.

The sheer size of the universe is so ridiculously large and with the distance between mere planets being so obscenely huge it will not happen. And that is one of the reasons I'll be sad to die. Lack of interstellar travel in my life.