If aliens landed on Earth, what do you fear the most that they might do?
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If aliens landed on Earth, what do you fear the most that they might do?
Why should I fear any of these things?
It seems inconceivable that beings could travel such unimaginable distances just to torment us.
So you're saying that Hollywood is filled w/ big fat liars. Are you calling Hollywood a big fat liar?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
Doesn't that go without saying? :spin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Colonel AngusSo you're saying that Hollywood is filled w/ big fat liars. Are you calling Hollywood a big fat liar?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
If we had the technology to travel to other planets and knew for a fact that aliens existed, I could absolutely see certain factions of humanity advocating their complete annihilation. I see no reason to believe that other races may not be prepared to come to Earth guns blazing if they ever chose to. Assuming they're anything like us at least. And if they're truly alien to us then we really can't even conceive of what motives they may have in traveling the stars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
Definitely the probing.
I heard the job market around Alkaid is horrible.
I never did actually answer. Obviously their interest in human horn worries me. Especially if they ever figure out where the actual horn is.
Interalien relationships. WHAT'S NEXT, VOTING?!?!?!
Seriously, I dunno. Probably Earth acting like asses
On the upside, I'm sure every race, gender, sexuality, and religion would come together as a single species in order to be prejudice to the various alien races we encounter in the stars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pumpkin
That there are no extraterrestrials.
The ole' probing without calling. WTF is that even. Jerkasses.
I'm going to preface this with I very much believe there is extraterrestrial life and I firmly believe they have been visiting earth for a very long time. I think they would have already been hostile if that was their intention. Did anyone ever see this video? Maybe you Canadians know more about this guy and if he's just a crazy person or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDuqZbjxB_E
This poll reminded me of this:
Pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
I'm pretty sure the Native Americans felt the same way about Europeans. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by FynnPretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
I doubt the aliens are white, though XD
There's a BIG difference between travelling across the globe and travelling across the vastness of space.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolf KannoI'm pretty sure the Native Americans felt the same way about Europeans. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by FynnPretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
Plus, chances are that any alien life is either far less advanced than us - in which case they won't be space travelling - or far more advanced than us, in which case it's hard to see how they could possibly gain by taking over our planet, or whatever. They might not even take much interest in us, necessarily.
On a related note, I've got another fear that could go on the list. If advanced aliens turn up and their purposes are benevolent towards us, rather than malevolent, they might well make us realise what horrible, horrible people we all are. See Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, where a bunch of aliens who look like demons show up and point out all the stuff we're doing wrong.
Yeah, this is kinda how I'm imagining things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. CarnelianThere's a BIG difference between travelling across the globe and travelling across the vastness of space.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolf KannoI'm pretty sure the Native Americans felt the same way about Europeans. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by FynnPretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
Plus, chances are that any alien life is either far less advanced than us - in which case they won't be space travelling - or far more advanced than us, in which case it's hard to see how they could possibly gain by taking over our planet, or whatever. They might not even take much interest in us, necessarily.
On a related note, I've got another fear that could go on the list. If advanced aliens turns up and their purposes are benevolent towards us, rather than malevolent, they might well make us realise what horrible, horrible people we all are. See Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, where a bunch of aliens who look like demons show up and point out all the stuff we're doing wrong.
I'm actually writing a sci-fi book about a similar topic.
They'd come in peace, see how horrible of a species we are, and then wipe us off the face of the galaxy for the betterment of the entire universe before we develop space travel and start ruining other planets inhabited by alien life.
I'm worried the OPPOSITE will happen and the general theist population will be unwilling to accept the proof and use that as an excuse to make the aliens go away.Quote:
Prove to us that our gods are false
Unless they have the ability to literally create all forms of matter from energy (in which case kudos to them) then their resources will always remain finite to some degree. That's reason enough to spread across the galaxy and take new planets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
That David Icke is human.Quote:
Biggest Extraterrestrial Fear
That the alien(s) that land on Earth is/are
JENOVA
Lavos
Freeza
or a Xenomorph Army
This would be really bad.
Is it sad that I'd love the chance to fight off Xenomorphs?
No way, man. That'd be epic as smurf. Think of all the Bruce Campbell lines you can make.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vivi22
My biggest fear is that the human race discover that we have been secretly living amongst them for seventy years. I really hope they don't realise that only 60% of the current world population are in fact human. We, The Quagaargs, are biding our time until there is only a 25% human representation. We will then devour the remainder in a 30-day ceremony known as 'The Cleansing'.
What if they come to torment us because they simply don't have anything better to do? What if space travel is incredibly easy to them and they're just bored looking for a fight. Technology more advanced then ours doesn't mean they're morally or spiritually better than us.
Honestly, if they are advanced enough to freely travel across the universe by light year travel, then it isn't really a big difference in analogy. Second, unless their technology is so advanced they don't really require resources or at least not the ones we can give, the most pragmatic reason for space travel is expansion and gaining access to new resources so a planet with life would automatically mean we have the resources that another lifeform may need to survive, unless of course their evolution was radically different from our own, in which case they may not even perceive us the same way we do them and they may eliminate us on accident. I feel the aliens of Independence Day are more likely to be out first encounter than say... the Vulcans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. CarnelianThere's a BIG difference between travelling across the globe and travelling across the vastness of space.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolf KannoI'm pretty sure the Native Americans felt the same way about Europeans. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by FynnPretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
Plus, chances are that any alien life is either far less advanced than us - in which case they won't be space travelling - or far more advanced than us, in which case it's hard to see how they could possibly gain by taking over our planet, or whatever. They might not even take much interest in us, necessarily.
On a related note, I've got another fear that could go on the list. If advanced aliens turns up and their purposes are benevolent towards us, rather than malevolent, they might well make us realise what horrible, horrible people we all are. See Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, where a bunch of aliens who look like demons show up and point out all the stuff we're doing wrong.
Then again, I'm a fan of the Great Filter Theory and Fermi Paradox.
By Zagmok's beard, you're not supposed to TELL THEM! :irked:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bubba
We're going to have to accelerate the plan now, you fool! :argh:
Wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. CarnelianBy Zagmok's beard, you're not supposed to TELL THEM! :irked:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bubba
We're going to have to accelerate the plan now, you fool! :argh:
Does that mean Formy's a Quagaarg too, or do you intend to devour him as well?
I've literally not a one as to what you guys are on about.
With that one comment he's confirmed as Quagaarg.
:shobon:
Aw man.
I love me some tragic love stories. :whimper:
Yep. The aliens will visit us all cool and then we'll put them in borderline concentration camps like in District 9 and then the mothership will arrive and be like "you've been doing smurfing what with our people" and then we'll be obliterated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pumpkin
^ Crap like that is why my brother always says, "I'm siding with the aliens."
There's no point worrying about what aliens will be like, because we can't really imagine it.
All the fears and hopes people have about aliens are really just reflections of their opinions of human beings. When someone says "Aliens would conquer and enslave us", what they're really saying is that that's what they think humans would do in that position.
Aliens are the 'Other' onto which we project our worst fears about ourselves.
When someone says they're scared of aliens, they're actually just scared of human beings.
I personally can't wait for aliens!
I wonder what that says about BioWare's views of humanity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
That they have a relatively realistic view of humanity: some people are good, some are bad, and most are somewhere in-between.Quote:
Originally Posted by AyenI wonder what that says about BioWare's views of humanity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Carnelian
That they're giant, amorphous clouds of intelligent gas that take up the same volume of space as our entire solar system, and fart thermonuclear explosions as a form of communication.
First contact will not go well between our peoples.
I think that was the plot of the 2nd Fantastic Four movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by sharkythesharkdogg
I have long since been trying to figure out who the other invaders were, and it ends up being the smurfing Quagaargs? We had a treaty, and this is clearly under my planet's jurisdiction. This shall be considered an act of war. Your plans will be all for naught once your people are obliterated along with all of earth.
>>> I dont like the idea of being alien`s food.
I would rather have forced sex/reproduction with sexy alien woman.:luca: