aliens - what if they did arrive

excaliburhc

why can i see that if we do ever make contact with Aliens that it will not go well ?

if they do not look , sound and act like us then surely there will be some people that will not accept them ?

taking for example racism - we are all basically the same bar a pigment in the skin and yet some people go to extremes to hate .

suppose small grey alien with a big head turns up - can you imagine what the response will be .

thoughts ?

KTRIC

excaliburhc wrote: »

suppose small grey alien with a big head turns up - can you imagine what the response will be .

thoughts ?

They're already here :rolleyes:

BraziliaNZ

excaliburhc wrote: »

why can i see that if we do ever make contact with Aliens that it will not go well ?

if they do not look , sound and act like us then surely there will be some people that will not accept them ?

taking for example racism - we are all basically the same bar a pigment in the skin and yet some people go to extremes to hate .

suppose small grey alien with a big head turns up - can you imagine what the response will be .

thoughts ?

This unlikely scenario has been documented before in shows such as V and Alien Nation. Basically all kind of mad sh*t goes down and maybe even make us realise that none of us are so much different afterall - and there'll be all kinds of parallels with apartheid etc.

BraziliaNZ

excaliburhc wrote: »

suppose small grey alien with a big head turns up - can you imagine what the response will be .

Oh look it's TV's Louis Walsh

Archeron

Invasion tax would make an appearance.

Mr.Crinklewood

If the aliens play football, Expect a lot more footballers to be suspended for racism only this time they will have an excuse with the "cultural differences" lark ( for a short while anyway ).

danniemcq

they would be kinda similer to us i guess. seen it on a doc few years ago.

2 legs as its easiest to walk on (see evolution)

ditto for digits on hands.

eyes would be roughly the same too, maybe bigger maybe smaller depending on home world conditions

as for why they would be here, peace at first ... then i fear the worst what advances would we have that they would want that they couldn't just take from us?

Chuck Stone

Protestant aliens or Catholic aliens?

Mr.Crinklewood

What annoys me about aliens, is when we find planets and say the could not sustain any life... Like how do we know?

antodeco

I wonder how long they'd need to wait before claiming the dole/get a free house?

Zebra3

If aliens turn up, obviously they have far superior technology to us, and therefore it is not a question of us accepting them, but of us bowing down to our new overlords.

Ellis Dee

A lot of people have problems with new arrivals who have dark skin, speak a language other than English and don't go to Mass or at least a Protestant service.:)

They'll really freak when Yabba the Hutt turns up. Or even this one, armed with a gazillion magavolt blaster: http://chockblock.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/seven-of-nine.jpg?w=400

However, any aliens who are technologically advanced to get here in the first place probably won't give a shit what we think about anything, and there won't be a lot we can do about it.:rolleyes:

billybudd

They will be terribly disappointed.

Pherekydes

I'm sure they'd want to re-educate us. They'd wonder why half of us are starving, a huge proportion of us waste our time in pursuit of a god, why we spend our time lying down watching other people lying down or producing a rank sort of popular culture.

Peetrik

We should hope to feck they are nothing like us. The things we do to different species for profit is abhorrent, skinning animals while they are still alive etc. (I assume everyones seen that youtube link. Yuk)

Dont get me wrong, I eat meat... its too delicious not too, but I imagine a slaughter house to animals is pretty much how we would experience a scene from the 'alien' films where there are people strapped to walls waiting for a xenomorph to burst out of their stomach.

BraziliaNZ

Pherekydes wrote: »

why we spend our time lying down watching other people lying down

Say what?!

Liam Byrne

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Pherekydes wrote: »

why we spend our time lying down watching other people lying down

Say what?!

He watches porn in bed

Paparazzo

If aliens landed here they'd spend their time hanging around womens showers using their power of invisibility.

Captain Darling

I just might go and say hello.

Owryan

We ll prob accuse them of stealing our jobs/welfare/houses n wimmen. Then claim they ve eaten all our swans.

Bad Panda

Humans don't deserve this planet. I'd welcome them on the condition they're here to wipe most of us out and start again*.


*Not me, of course!

Biggins

excaliburhc wrote: »

why can i see that if we do ever make contact with Aliens that it will not go well ?

if they do not look , sound and act like us then surely there will be some people that will not accept them ?

taking for example racism - we are all basically the same bar a pigment in the skin and yet some people go to extremes to hate .

suppose small grey alien with a big head turns up - can you imagine what the response will be .

thoughts ?

Yes, I'd try following these instructions if I was blessed to come in contact with them: http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2011/12/21f85c7401bbb227c6539739cbdb585a.png

galwayrush

Take me to your leader local social welfare office.

Liam Byrne

We might cop the f**k on and start acting with humanity.

Although it appears from films that (a) they'd be peaceful and land in Anerica where some hillbilly would shoot them or (b) they'd have to be aggressive in order to make the world cop on to collectively repel them to protect our "wonderful" :rolleyes: way of life and standards.

Captain Darling

galwayrush wrote: »

Take me to your leader local social welfare office.

Dey tuk our jooobsss...

Curly Judge

If they get to us before we get to them then it is safe to assume they would be more advanced, at least technically.
It would be a big mistake to assume that advanced would also imply benevolent.

KeithAFC

Nothing like the Alien flute...

mattjack

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Protestant aliens or Catholic aliens?

African aliens or Eastern European aliens ?

Zen65

We could sell them property at inflated prices.

Z

44leto

I wonder would Jesus have saved them on their home world.

Nothingbetter2d

Archeron wrote: »

Invasion tax would make an appearance.

also a tax rate band for spaceships would be introduced

space imports/exports would need to be taxed too

44leto

I warn you people if aliens landed here, predator will follow.

FloatingVoter

If they're Vulcan women, we shag them.
If they're Klingons, we nuke 'em. *

*From the UN Charter on Alien Encounters.

barone

we are the aliens on this planet

IamtheWalrus

It's unlikely an alien would risk landing on Earth. They would surely fear attack. They would first make contact from a far. Therefore alien sightings are misguided.

Captain Darling

[dannydyervoice]It'd kick roight off, innit.[/dannydyervoice]

KilOit

Think Stephen hawkin said once we should not hope to be contacted by aliens since he believes their agenda would be hostile

Hunchback

would they have any unpleasant habits?

what if their anuses were located squarely in the centre of their necks?

you could be chatting away with them, and then the next thing you know their eyes go all squinty and their little grey faces become flushed and a long turd is forced out from the centre of their necks and falls on the dinner table right in front of you.

this would be most unpleasant and could lead to strained relationships.

44leto

If we got first contact then we would be invited to join the federation which would be cool.

Capt'n Midnight

danniemcq wrote: »

they would be kinda similer to us i guess. seen it on a doc few years ago.

2 legs as its easiest to walk on (see evolution)

ditto for digits on hands.

eyes would be roughly the same too, maybe bigger maybe smaller depending on home world conditions

Some of the most intelligent species on this planet include dolphins, crows and octopus so you can pretty much ignore any of that anthropomorphic discovery channel edutainment.


Even if their body chemistry was very similar to ours they might have DNA/ Proteins with a "left hand thread" meaning that lots of things would be mutually indigestible / toxic. Trace elements like boron and selenium determine where some species can and can't live on this planet. For an ET from a planet with lower concentrations of some of these everything here would be toxic especially if they haven't evolved to eliminate aluminium, it would be like us landing on a planet with lots (parts per billion) of beryllium or heavy metals. At present our planet, including the solar wind and fallout, may be too radioactive for them to risk exposure here.

Biggins

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Some of the most intelligent species on this planet include dolphins, crows and octopus so you can pretty much ignore any of that anthropomorphic discovery channel edutainment.


Even if their body chemistry was very similar to ours they might have DNA/ Proteins with a "left hand thread" meaning that lots of things would be mutually indigestible / toxic. Trace elements like boron and selenium determine where some species can and can't live on this planet. For an ET from a planet with lower concentrations of some of these everything here would be toxic especially if they haven't evolved to eliminate aluminium, it would be like us landing on a planet with lots (parts per billion) of beryllium or heavy metals. At present our planet, including the solar wind and fallout, may be too radioactive for them to risk exposure here.

If we are realistic looking at things, if they are of such a high intelligence to actually get here with their far higher technology, they will of course done their homework prior to landing and know what conditions they are entering in regards atmosphere and possible living residents of Earth.
No doubt they will have been listening/watching for some time so the only shocks will really be ours, not theirs mostly.

Pherekydes

Liam Byrne wrote: »

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Pherekydes wrote: »

why we spend our time lying down watching other people lying down

Say what?!

He watches porn in bed

Neither of you recognize Big BROTHER from the description?

PS I don't watch it.

Liam Byrne

Pherekydes wrote: »

Liam Byrne wrote: »

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Pherekydes wrote: »

why we spend our time lying down watching other people lying down

Say what?!

He watches porn in bed

Neither of you recognize Big BROTHER from the description?

PS I don't watch it.

Thankfully I'm immune to any references to that ****e.

Ellis Dee

44leto wrote: »

If we got first contact then we would be invited to join the federation ...

Or forced to embrace their weird religion ...:eek::eek::eek:

http://www.allmystery.de/dateien/ug39509,1256731640,Alien-Pope-42079.jpg

Curly Judge

Wonder if they'll follow the "Prime Directive"?

http://www.wimp.com/primedirective/

senorwipesalot

Ask the Happy Mondays.http://www.nme.com/news/shaun-ryder/60172

WTF?

ScumLord

If aliens do exist and can travel here we have nothing they would want. All sci-fi films that show aliens coming to earth for water and gold is nonsense as that stuff is floating around space and much easier to access than trying to take it off a large object like a planet.

I think it's likely they are out there studying us and have absolutely no intention of ever talking to us as it would ruin their research into primitive intelligent species.

The likely hood is they would be thousands, if not millions of years ahead of us and would have to have solved many mortal problems to get as far as us. There will be no invasions at the very least.

Darksaga87

Aliens wont come here. If you were able to look at earth as someone who has never been or lived here and seen the hate, war, stupidness that go on here on a daily basis, would you visit this place?

The only reason they will come is to destroy us for wasting a planet.

I was ment to fit a rant about religion in there too but ive gotten in trouble for that before.

ScumLord

Darksaga87 wrote: »

Aliens wont come here. If you were able to look at earth as someone who has never been or lived here and seen the hate, war, stupidness that go on here on a daily basis, would you visit this place?

Violence among humans is rare, if you where looking from the outside (and mostly ignoring our sensational press) it would look very peaceful on this planet. Of course you could see the rest of the animals killing each other and think it's awful if you have no concept of the natural process.

Biggins

ScumLord wrote: »

If aliens do exist and can travel here we have nothing they would want. All sci-fi films that show aliens coming to earth for water and gold is nonsense as that stuff is floating around space and much easier to access than trying to take it off a large object like a planet.

I think it's likely they are out there studying us and have absolutely no intention of ever talking to us as it would ruin their research into primitive intelligent species.

The likely hood is they would be thousands, if not millions of years ahead of us and would have to have solved many mortal problems to get as far as us. There will be no invasions at the very least.

IF (and thats a BIG if) they do come and make themselves known, I suspect it will be one of few reasons.

1. To take over the Earth totally as a place to live - even temp-wise as a stepping stone along a long path journey.

2. Pure deeper curiosity beyond just what their technology is telling them.

3. To slap us around the head and tell us to kop ourselves on!

I would be waiting for the first Alien Human "relationship"


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