Biggest Extraterrestrial Fear

[Wolf Kanno]

Why should I fear any of these things?

It seems inconceivable that beings could travel such unimaginable distances just to torment us.

Pretty much.

I'm pretty sure the Native Americans felt the same way about Europeans.

[Fynn]

I doubt the aliens are white, though XD

[Mr. Carnelian]

Why should I fear any of these things?

It seems inconceivable that beings could travel such unimaginable distances just to torment us.

Pretty much.

I'm pretty sure the Native Americans felt the same way about Europeans.

There's a BIG difference between travelling across the globe and travelling across the vastness of space.

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.

[Fynn]

Why should I fear any of these things?

It seems inconceivable that beings could travel such unimaginable distances just to torment us.

Pretty much.

I'm pretty sure the Native Americans felt the same way about Europeans.

There's a BIG difference between travelling across the globe and travelling across the vastness of space.

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.

Yeah, this is kinda how I'm imagining things.

I'm actually writing a sci-fi book about a similar topic.

[Ayen]

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.

[blackmage_nuke]

Prove to us that our gods are false

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.

[Slothy]

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.

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.

[Old Manus]

Biggest Extraterrestrial Fear

That David Icke is human.

[Sephiroth]

That the alien(s) that land on Earth is/are

JENOVA
Lavos
Freeza
or a Xenomorph Army

This would be really bad.

[Slothy]

Is it sad that I'd love the chance to fight off Xenomorphs?

[Ayen]

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.

[Bubba]

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'.

[theundeadhero]

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.

[Wolf Kanno]

Why should I fear any of these things?

It seems inconceivable that beings could travel such unimaginable distances just to torment us.

Pretty much.

I'm pretty sure the Native Americans felt the same way about Europeans.

There's a BIG difference between travelling across the globe and travelling across the vastness of space.

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.

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.

Then again, I'm a fan of the Great Filter Theory and Fermi Paradox.

[Mr. Carnelian]

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'.

By Zagmok's beard, you're not supposed to TELL THEM!

We're going to have to accelerate the plan now, you fool!