How do you think we would act on a 1st contact basis with another life form?

Do you think they would co-exist with us or kill us?


 

I'd kill them.

I think our best case scenario is to essentially have a repeat of Japanese history.

Worst case scenario is to have a repeat of Native American history.

so...nukes?

I think it's risky. Think about evolution for a second.

We didn't get to the top of our game by coexisting with other lifeforms peacefully. We got up to our point due to evolution, yes, but what's important to note is what that evolution included. Violence. Predation. We're built for violence. It's an inherent part of our brain at the moment.

Now, since we have one current model of evolution, ours, and we don't know the possibilities of other branches of evolution on other worlds, I think it's safe to say that ours could potentially be a common one. So what might that mean? Apex predators.

Or, alternatly, let's say we find a species that has a different model of evolution than ours, one that was more peaceful, so to speak. We would be an incredibly terrifying species to meet even if we were considered primitive by their standards.

Another thing. We always seem to think of spacefaring alien lifeforms in a similar structure to ours. What if the apex predator is a virus or micro organism that can withstand the hardships of space and planetary entry? On our own planet, we have lifeforms capable of this.

Down to business. My honest thoughts are that discovering an intelligent space faring race in our current stage would destroy us. Either the race would be an apex predator and they'd have no qualms on bowling us over, or we ourselves may ignite conflict with them.

Even if the race was peaceful, the technology they'd need to possess in order to travel such massive distances would warrent significant evolutionary process both technologically AND physically. Such a gap would render them totally and completely alien to us.

Something so inhuman and alien is hard to relate to for us. At which point relations would again, sour.

I really hope our first contact will be finding some alien bacteria (microorganism if you will) inside a meteor that would crash into Earth. Its not straight-up ayyy lmaos but it also proves that there is other life out there.

How do you think we would act on a 1st contact basis with another life form?

HOLY SHIT WE FOUND BACTERIA ON [INSERT PLANET]!!!!!!!

Well luckily it takes centuries to travel interstellar medium at velocities attainable with realistic technology so the odds of having to worry about interstellar nuclear wars are slim.

>Go to the ocean with a bucket
>Scoop up some water
>No fish in the bucket
>That must mean there's no fish in the ocean
>Tru logic

Aliens aren't real.

All we have to do is let Ilya Bryzgalov make first contact and we're all okay.

YES

>Go to the ocean with a bucket
>Scoop up some water
>No fish in the bucket
>That must mean there's no fish in the ocean
>Tru logic

Quote from: True Turquoise on January 31, 2017, 06:52:11 AM

Aliens aren't real.

>Talking about space
>Looks at my short reply
>thinks its serious
>Talks about the ocean and a bucket
>Ian

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