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To think we shouldn't try to contact aliens?

93 replies

Hotzenplotz · 27/01/2021 01:55

They might enslave us. Shock

OP posts:
Meruem · 28/01/2021 10:17

I actually find it more believable that aliens visited thousands of years ago and people derived god and religion from that, than the idea that one actual god exists. Think about when people reference heaven they say “up above” and “looking down on us”. They got the idea from somewhere and like I say, aliens are more believable than god, Jesus etc. If anything I think maybe they are watching us and gaining some form of entertainment from the mess we are making of the world. Like a big experiment. I don’t think they’ll destroy us but I don’t think they’ll swoop in and save us either.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/01/2021 10:37

@MrsGulDukat

Things will get worrying when the Klingons find us. Romulans and Vulcans too. And the Breen and Jem'Hadar.

But the scariest of them all........Cardassians. Watch out for them space lizards.

Your name suggests you'd welcome the Cardassians.Grin

In addition to any aliens who were able to reach us probably being more intelligent than us, I really hope they'd have worked out something like the Prime Directive and observe us without interfering,
Though maybe we could do with a benign technologically advanced species sorting out some of our messes.

Doctroo · 28/01/2021 10:48

We're already here, but don't worry, we have no intention of enslaving you...

Yet.

MrsGulDukat · 28/01/2021 10:49

@ErrolTheDragon.

Cardassians are always welcome. Stupid sexy space lizards. Grin

I reckon Aliens have turned us into a huge version of the Truman Show. Several aliens species are watching the car crash that is the Human race.

The Vulcans will come and save us one day.

Pukkatea · 28/01/2021 10:51

I think any alien race technologically advanced enough to get to us would find us whether or not we put out a signal.

You also assume they would see us as intelligent life, as opposed to just any other animal, like we see an octopus or something. Assuming many planets have life we would probably just be a curiosity to an advanced lifeform, but of course humans always think we are special and the centre of everything.

Whatsnewpussyhat · 28/01/2021 10:52

I like the theory that we have alien DNA and that's why modern man overlapped with Neanderthal man. Our evolution was too fast.

Dr Brian Cox said we could be the aliens. Using up all the resources of a planet then moving to a new one, then repeating the process.

Pukkatea · 28/01/2021 10:53

@Meruem

I actually find it more believable that aliens visited thousands of years ago and people derived god and religion from that, than the idea that one actual god exists. Think about when people reference heaven they say “up above” and “looking down on us”. They got the idea from somewhere and like I say, aliens are more believable than god, Jesus etc. If anything I think maybe they are watching us and gaining some form of entertainment from the mess we are making of the world. Like a big experiment. I don’t think they’ll destroy us but I don’t think they’ll swoop in and save us either.
I'd just assumed that probably came from the sun, stars and moon. They weren't understood and were definitely worshipped as gods before the ones we have now came along. Things on earth could be investigated but things in the sky couldn't, so the sky attains mythical status.
MrsGulDukat · 28/01/2021 10:55

Dr Brian Cox said we could be the aliens. Using up all the resources of a planet then moving to a new one, then repeating the process.

That is quite a plausible theory.

vodkaredbullgirl · 28/01/2021 10:59

I doubt that they would want to come here at the moment.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/01/2021 11:08

The Vulcans will come and save us one day.

They might come and save the dolphins, octopuses and some of the corvina and parrots.

CounsellorTroi · 28/01/2021 11:08

@MrsGulDukat

Things will get worrying when the Klingons find us. Romulans and Vulcans too. And the Breen and Jem'Hadar.

But the scariest of them all........Cardassians. Watch out for them space lizards.

It’s the Borg I would really be worrying about!
CounsellorTroi · 28/01/2021 11:12

Cardassians are always welcome. Stupid sexy space lizards. grin

Is it just me or are Ferengi rather sexy? At least Quark is. And Rom and Nog are adorable. Shame Ferengi are so mysogynist.

MrsGulDukat · 28/01/2021 11:14

It’s the Borg I would really be worrying about!

Meh, the Borg are wimps. They die quicker than a red shirt on an away mission.

MrsGulDukat · 28/01/2021 11:15

Quark, Rom and Nog are the only decent Ferengi.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/01/2021 11:16

Corvina?Confused corvids.
(Maybe autocorrect thinks an Italian grape variety is more worthy than jackdaws and jays)

ErrolTheDragon · 28/01/2021 11:18

@MrsGulDukat

Quark, Rom and Nog are the only decent Ferengi.
You're forgetting Quark's mum!
MrsGulDukat · 28/01/2021 11:31

And Quark's mum too.

Foghead · 28/01/2021 11:31

Don’t worry op. Microsoft Windows is sophisticated enough to hack into even alien technology. Techies will save us.

Whatsnewpussyhat · 28/01/2021 11:39

And Rom and Nog are adorable

Nog would be like a small puppy following you around getting under your feet.

Quarks mum is great. She gives no shits.

contrmary · 28/01/2021 11:47

The likelihood of intelligent life from another planet coming to visit us in the next century is incredibly slim. If you assume that it is possible for lifeforms to travel the vast distances needed (a big assumption) it is still incredibly unlikely they would visit us.

There are an unimaginable number of galaxies, solar systems and planets out there. From our limited knowledge, a tiny fraction of planets are capable of supporting life. Fewer will have the conditions for developing intelligent life - the resources and luck needed for a species to develop over millions of years without wiping themselves out through catastrophic war or an accident or natural disaster.

Of the few that develop intergalactic or even just interstellar travel, it is tremendously unlikely that they will happen to choose our solar system and planet to visit. A bit like you and I going to the beach on separate days and both picking up the same single grain of sand.

Further, it's only been in the last 100 years or so that we'd necessarily know aliens had visited, if they had. Before radar and radio and other such things, aliens could have visited large parts of the world that were virtually uninhabited and we would be none the wiser. It's spectacularly unlikely that if aliens visited our planet they would happen to have arrived in the specific century or so when we'd have known about it, rather than at any other point in the billions of years of history.

I don't doubt that aliens choosing to visit us could be very dangerous - they would have technology so far in advance of our own that we would be reliant on their goodwill. But to my mind it would be easier for a species to develop technology to synthetically develop the resources they need (oxygen, water perhaps) than it would be for them to develop interstellar space travel.

Nonamesavail · 28/01/2021 11:50

@Aquamarine1029

"If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans." - Stephen Hawking

I'm inclined to agree.

I agree with this.
CrotchBurn · 28/01/2021 11:58

Not believing in aliens is like back in the olden days when people thought when they arrived at the sea that was the edge of the world

But I dont think we would recognise them

MisterT373 · 28/01/2021 12:04

I think they've already been - observed the state of the planet and its inhabitants and thought "screw this" and gone back to Alpha Centauri .

MrsGulDukat · 28/01/2021 14:41

Aliens have definitely been here. If only they left reviews on TripAdvisor.

Basecamp65 · 28/01/2021 14:54

I think it is more likely than not that there are other intelligent beings in the universe, but whether we will ever meet them is another matter

We may be the most developed world - there has to be one but most likely we are not

I remember someone very clever on TV saying the problem with sending out our messages into space is that the chances of the people on the other end having the means to read them is slim. It would be like trying to communicate with smart phones using smoke signals

We would not expect people to be trying to communicate with us by smoke signals so we do not look for them - a much more advanced technologically speaking group to us might not have been looking for radio signals for millions of years.

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