aliens - what if they did arrive

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

*From the UN Charter on Alien Encounters.

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

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

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

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 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.

Peaceful aliens would avoid us. We are aggressive, paranoid, violent, divided & unpredictable. Not to mention the many primitive religious practices that are used to validate the most horrific acts against those who are 'different'.

Hostile aliens...well...we probably wouldn't even see them. It's likely that they would have technology to annihilate us from orbit. Or they could release a virus to wipe just us out, leaving everything else intact.

Basically, if there are aliens out there with the technology to visit us, then we should hope that we never make contact. If history teaches us anything it's that when advanced and primitive cultures meet, it doesn't go so well for the primitive culture.

44leto wrote: »

The universe is 14 billion years old, the Earth 5 billion years old. There was life on Earth pretty much from its on-set. To spite the ideal conditions on this rather stable planet Intelligence capable of culture only happened once, and in the time scale of earth only 75ooo years ago.

Life was only on the planet for the last billion or so years as far as we know, and the earth is neither stable nor ideal, life has almost been entirely wiped out completely numerous times.

Even more recently look what happened to the what were they called, I want to say boob-people, Minoans thats them, all's going well already have womens lib since the bras were clearly not in evidence and boom, a great big volcano blows your civilisation to splinters.

Back in the bark canoes and back to square one.

My guess is we haven't seen alien life for reasons more complicated than we can imagine right now, I mean there could reasonably have been previous sentient species on earth and we wouldn't know it, all trace would be long gone form even a couple of million years ago.

However, we could well be in the midst of a thriving collection of massive alien civilisations who wouldn't be aware of us since they haven't got an outpost in every dreary backwater solar system, I mean why would they, whats the benefit, and even in the unlikely event that they did hear our radio signals, which they won't past the nearest star or thereabouts, it might take them millennia to get here.

Mind you if the FTL neutrino deal ever kicks off and some bright spark gets the idea of tuning the output to a pair of speakers, we could be in for a surprise!