Poll: What will you do when the aliens land?

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Leemaster777

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Here's a question for you all, if aliens came to earth, what would you do?

Basically, here's the setup. Huge alien spacecrafts begin hovering over various cities all over the earth. The ships have made no aggressive actions, but have also made no attempt to contact earth. This has been going on for 24 hours. What do you do?

Here's a brief summary of each choice:

Watch the aliens: Basically, this involves sitting on your ass and watching various news outlets, waiting for any breaking news. Or perhaps manning a telescope or a pair of binoculars, something to that effect. You're taking a "wait and see" attitude.

Contact the aliens: Your mindset is "FINALLY, someone less stupid than these other freaking humans!". Sending codes with blinking lights, posting signs on top of your house, or even rigging some kind of radio, you just want to be the guy that made first contact.

Run from the aliens: You're thinking to yourself, "Did NONE of you watch Independence Day?! I'm getting the HELL out of here!". You don't know what the aliens want, and you're not sticking around to find out. Maybe you've got a cabin in the mountains, or you know this great cave in the woods, or even as simple as moving to a town slightly farther away. When the shit hits the fan, you want to be as far away from those anal probes as possible.


Exploit the aliens: You view this as a money-making opportunity. Perhaps you'll try to get your hands on some alien technology to sell, or maybe something as simple as selling "authentic" alien merchandise to the ignorant masses. You'll make a buck off this if it kills you.

So, what would YOU do?
 

Serenegoose

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Contact them, for sure.

Boo-dee-doo-DUM-DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM.

Hopefully it'll be a fleet of passing culture GCUs who've finally decided that sitting by idly whilst we destroy ourselves isn't a great option, and they'll dig the reference.
 

Subzerowings

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I say we just take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Either that or stock up on cat food.
 

tomtom94

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Continue about my daily life.

From what I am able to tell, Earth has very few exploitable resources and aliens who are able to traverse millions of light years will not exactly hang about our destruction.

And the Doctor will save us, too.
 

Scarim Coral

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Yup I gonna watch them where it is safe unless it's the alien plan to invole the tv/ internet. Note you could of added attack the alien, for all we know they forgot to think of a invasion plan or waiting from them is part of their invasion plan.
 

fix-the-spade

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Grab mah standard issue Em Forty-wun-Ay and give them aliens an ass wuppin! That's what.

Probably run and hide in my basement whilst cowering in fear with the cat. Anything that travels all the way here and then lands probably has an agenda, all the benevolent aliens will have decided to stay well clear whilst in high orbit.
 

Leemaster777

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Scarim Coral said:
Yup I gonna watch them where it is safe unless it's the alien plan to invole the tv/ internet. Note you could of added attack the alien, for all we know they forgot to think of a invasion plan or waiting from them is part of their invasion plan.
I really have no idea why I didn't put that as an option to begin with.

Well, I've added it now.
 

vrbtny

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Crack out the M-16's, and "OPEN FIRE!!"

Sorry, you caught me in a violent mode ;)
 

CCountZero

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If Aliens come to Earth tomorrow, I'm gonna go about my business as I always have, and not give a damn.

This is for a couple of reasons.

Everything I know about "intelligent lifeforms" tells me that these Aliens do not have our best interests in mind.

Not much use running away though, as I can't very well run further than where I already am, on the planet which they might be about to decimate.

And even if I could hijack a rocket and get myself out into space, I'd just end up dying out there, by the eventual lack of oxygen if nothing else, and that's not a better death than any I might be able to arrange for myself back on Earth, if it came to that.
Besides, what if I run and it turns out they were friendly? Then I'm screwed out in space, no thanks.

I'm not gonna bother with contacting them, 'cus if they just moved from known space and all the way to Earth, they're bound to be much more advanced, and if they don't want to talk or can't figure out a way to, I seriously doubt I'd be able to.



All in all, whether they're friendly or hostile, there's most likely nothing much I can do about anything.
The same is true for our respective governments or even the collective people of our planet.

So yeah. I'm not gonna make a fuss about it.
 

PrimoThePro

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Killing the aliens? That's like sponges vs. Nuclear weaponry. It just won't end well. I say try and contact them.
 

dowdpride

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well... in the spirit of "the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" i would grab the nearest towel, find some guy named ford, and start holding up my thumb...