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Friendly Aliens.

  • 06-03-2015 11:39PM
    #1
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,300 ✭✭✭✭


    How come it's always death a destruction with these guys and never sunshine and lollipops and skipping hand in hand into the sunset.
    Do we have any examples of friendly aliens,surely there must be a few decent sorts among them?


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  • #2
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,923 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    kneemos wrote: »
    How come it's always death a destruction with these guys and never sunshine and lollipops and skipping hand in hand into the sunset.
    Do we have any examples of friendly aliens,surely there must be a few decent sorts among them?
    ET


  • #3
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    ALF
    Mork
    That guy from that ad about the Harp (or was he a time traveller?)


  • #4
    Señor Fancy Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    Mac from Mac and Me
    Mork from Mork and Mindy
    Linda Martin the Martian


  • #5
    Filmer Paradise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    That E.T. fellah seemed like a decent sort.

    Phone Home & all that.....


  • #6
    Youngblood.III
    Site Banned Posts: 777 ✭✭✭Youngblood.III


    A mans G-spot is up his arse..... supposedly, them Aliens are always arse probing, looks like their trying to please us.


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  • #7
    Golaco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71 ✭✭Golaco


    Youngblood.III wrote: »
    A mans G-spot is up his arse..... supposedly, them Aliens are always arse probing, looks like their trying to please us.

    An interesting theory. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter


  • #8
    FunLover18
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  • #9
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    kneemos wrote: »
    How come it's always death a destruction with these guys and never sunshine and lollipops and skipping hand in hand into the sunset.
    Do we have any examples of friendly aliens,surely there must be a few decent sorts among them?

    This country has centuries of bad luck with people who show up on our shores. It might be wishful thinking to suppose that things would be better just because they rock up in a flying saucer. :pac:


  • #10
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Truffle Pig wrote: »
    Mac from Mac and Me

    Paul Rudd loves that movie!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bNzAgJMYVE


  • #11
    Youngblood.III
    Site Banned Posts: 777 ✭✭✭Youngblood.III


    'merica.......phew...phew..plew


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  • #12
    delw
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOAj-DfJpRg


  • #13
    Karl Stein
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    Consider, if you will, the conquistadors. In our own history it rarely worked out well for people when they were visited by more technologically advanced others.


  • #14
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    "monsters" is a pretty decent alien film: to write anymore would spoil it for those who haven't seen it. Love the theme tune...was used in the ROG documentary by RTE.


  • #15
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    This guy was friendly!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa6-nYI0OhQ


  • #16
    Drexel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭Drexel


    Mr. Spock


  • #17
    Youngblood.III
    Site Banned Posts: 777 ✭✭✭Youngblood.III


    jonny666 wrote: »
    Mr. Spock

    Logical choice


  • #18
    meep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭meep


    Aliens in 'Contact' were a helpful / friendly sort. As were those in 'Interstellar' but I'm not sure that counts.


  • #19
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    friendly alien 4.00 in....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXTvSQrBMPI


  • #20
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,570 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End dies a decent job with the whole alien contact thing.


  • #21
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    I bring you love.


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  • #22
    delw
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    Paul


  • #23
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    This is their theme tune

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnYCboElgHs


  • #24
    meep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭meep


    The Doctor


  • #25
    Depraved
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭Depraved


    One would hope that a species technologically advanced enough to reach us would also be socially advanced enough to see the benefits of being friendly. Also, it's unlikely that we would have anything that they need.

    Of course, they could be so fundamentally different from us that they don't even recognise us as intelligent life. They could view us the way we view a virus, bacteria, snail etc.


  • #26
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    Even if aliens tried to be nice they'd kill us all with their alien germs. ET should have been torched for the safety of humanity.


  • #27
    DVDM93
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,144 ✭✭✭DVDM93


    District 9 was on tonight. To me the aliens were the nice ones, some of them cute even. The humans were just cnuts.

    It's the human race I worry about, not aliens.


  • #28
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    DVDM93 wrote: »
    District 9 was on tonight. To me the aliens were the nice ones, some of them cute even. The humans were just cnuts.

    Haven't seen it, but from what I hear that was the whole point. The movie was a metaphor for apartheid.


  • #29
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    kneemos wrote: »
    How come it's always death a destruction with these guys and never sunshine and lollipops and skipping hand in hand into the sunset.
    Do we have any examples of friendly aliens,surely there must be a few decent sorts among them?

    The problem with this scenario of 'us' thinking of meeting benevolent aliens is that we are a paranoid civilisation. We just cannot accept and co-exist with our own world family of human beings without killing them for something or other.

    Many human beings are happy in their box thinking they are safe and tranquil, and even cloud cover makes them warm and cosy within this cotton-wool encompassed enclosure disregarding the immense outer-ness of space while scurrying around nervous of something in-coming to our little box atmosphere.

    Would a sane person really think a friendly alien would visit us physically for the human experience ? not a fcuking chance man. If they had the technology to warp space and time to visit this planet I'm sure they would remove the nuisance and make good use of the planet they now own.


  • #30
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    If any alien species exists that is advanced enough to travel here, we would be so pathetically primitive by comparison that I don't see why they'd pay us any attention at all. Imagine walking past a pond full of tadpoles on your way to work.


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  • #31
    DoYouEvenLift
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,188 ✭✭✭DoYouEvenLift


    Close Encounters of the Third Kind, watched it for the first time recently actually



    Tin Foil Hat wrote: »
    Haven't seen it, but from what I hear that was the whole point. The movie was a metaphor for apartheid.


    Yeah, the oppressor becoming the oppressed. To quote Blomkamp himself, "the Nazi becoming the holocaust victim"

    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    If any alien species exists that is advanced enough to travel here, we would be so pathetically primitive by comparison that I don't see why they'd pay us any attention at all. Imagine walking past a pond full of tadpoles on your way to work.


    I agree. They'd probably be so advanced that it'd be similar to us trying to teach a monkey what a plane or rocket is, and that'd be even worse if we were to try and teach monkeys how to build a plane or rocket. Their technology could possibly be beyond our comprehension. It's nice to think that they'd still appreciate another intelligent life form though, just like we would if we discovered one on another planet.


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