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Post by Paladin on Dec 9, 2023 22:17:48 GMT -5
Remember in Star Trek where they have a prime directive prohibiting them from making first contact until a civilization had advanced to a certain point? Maybe they're observing us but don't want to officially contact us until we're ready. Maybe that's us reaching the milestone of interstellar travel. Maybe that's all of humanity coming together as the people of Earth rather than a thousand sub groups.
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Post by bob on Dec 10, 2023 0:05:23 GMT -5
Maybe that's it. They're waiting on us to get it together.
If life on Earth is any indication of what we can expect elsewhere in the universe, they probably wouldn't come in peace. They'd probably view us the same way we view monkeys and wouldn't feel bad about just going War of the Worlds on us. If that's the case, we'd definitely know if they've been here because we wouldn't be.
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Post by Yeti on Dec 30, 2023 3:52:35 GMT -5
I don't know if it would be such a good idea for us to be visited by aliens. They'd be quite a bit more advanced than us. If we look at our own history here on Earth, a more advanced civilization encountering a more primitive civilization has never gone well for the less advanced civilization. At least in those cases it was humans encountering humans. Imagine how much less the more advanced civilization would care about an inferior one if they weren't even the same species.
I'd like to think us meeting an alien race would be more like Star Trek, but I'm afraid in reality it might be more like War of the Worlds or Independence Day. Perhaps the reason we don't hear from other advanced civilizations is they realize the same thing and don't want to draw attention from a race that might wipe them out.
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Post by camila on Dec 30, 2023 13:06:17 GMT -5
That's a frightening thought. If a more advanced race came for our world, we wouldn't stand a chance. Something else we learn from life on Earth is all the most intelligent species eat meat which means they're natural predators.
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Post by Yeti on Dec 30, 2023 16:20:36 GMT -5
That's a frightening thought. If a more advanced race came for our world, we wouldn't stand a chance. Something else we learn from life on Earth is all the most intelligent species eat meat which means they're natural predators. Another good reason to be wary of alien races. |
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Post by Jörmungandr on Dec 30, 2023 19:28:20 GMT -5
Bring it on. We will just nuke em.
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Post by Large Marge on Dec 31, 2023 8:48:21 GMT -5
Bring it on. We will just nuke em. exactly. how could they have any thing better than nukes? |
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Post by Yeti on Dec 31, 2023 9:09:48 GMT -5
If they're more advanced than us, surely they have more advanced weaponry. A problem with nuclear weapons is they're not focused weapons. Let's say there's alien vessels hovering in our atmosphere, maybe like in Independence Day. If we nuke them we don't just blow them up but anything around them. Nuclear weapons don't discriminate. Then we're left with the fallout long, long afterwards. If the aliens are so advanced, there's nothing to say that they wouldn't have some way of withstanding our primitive nuclear weapons, either, like they did in Independence Day.
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Post by Paladin on Dec 31, 2023 17:12:14 GMT -5
They probably have a Death Star.
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