Another Alien-related poll

[Kyriakos]

I am pretty sure we had it again in the past (possibly by me too, not certain though) but the question is one i still find interesting.

It is whether you are joyous or fearful of the possibility that aliens exist and may visit the earth.

Personally i do not like this possibility one bit. Granted there is a small chance those aliens would be similar to us, and a version of the "good races" in rpg games (to put it very simplistically) but even then their advanced civilization would overshadow humanity. Also it would inevitably be a very significant (perhaps even the most significant) date in humanity's history, the date when those aliens met us, whereas for those aliens it probably would be just another mission to a foreign species.

And then again there exists a seemingly a lot bigger possibility that the aliens will not be good at all.Warring with them might be extremely difficult, since one would have to guess their technology would be superior so as to allow them to reach us.

So the poll will be up soon, very soon, to make time before the aliens arrive

 

[strijder20]

At this very moment, hundred procent of the CivFanatics claims to be an alien.

 

[W|M]

Diseases will most likely kill everyone involved due to lack of human/alien immunity from each other's diseases.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

They'd obviously abduct some to perform tests in a confined area first.

 

[Leoreth]

If we take our history of technologically advanced people meeting "savages" as a guide line, well ...

 

[Lillefix]

Diseases will most likely kill everyone involved due to lack of human/alien immunity from each other's diseases.

As I've argued in another thread, I don't think this will be the case. They will be so different that our diseases won't affect them and vice versa.

 

[NickyJ]

I don't want them To Serve Man!

 

[TheLastOne36]

If they are advanced enough to have FTL or some other way of reaching Earth, then I don't want them to come in contact with us until we have similar technologies. Otherwise, I can't see how or why a meeting with another intelligent race be good for us, even if they are friendly. The giant wave of technology that would fall in our hands would screw up our culture and society. Essentially, we would be given technology too advanced for our society to handle. We would like to think we are advanced, but we are not. We can't even manage our own planets resources ffs!

Further, I don't see how we would be able to control the spread of alien bacteria and diseases with our current technology. Maybe the wouldbe advanced aliens will have thought that through.

 

[Skwink]

I think we should go and colonize them.

 

[bhsup]

I am positively joyful at the prospect of alien visitation. You know why? Cuz that's our stepping stone to galactic domination!


Link to video.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I am positively joyful at the prospect of alien visitation. You know why? Cuz that's our stepping stone to galactic domination!

Link to video.

Spoiler :

Although I suppose technically we won 'cos you yanks got the job done. Eventually.

 

[Perfection]

I feel positively, want to eat them

 

[Old Hippy]

As I've argued in another thread, I don't think this will be the case. They will be so different that our diseases won't affect them and vice versa.

its not the diseases,that we have to worry about.... its the millions of other types of bacteria that don't cause disease to us and probably the millions of alien bacteria and viruses that are benign to them, it would only take one to find us a good host to wipe us out

I can see the headlines back on THEIR home world " BO destroys primitive species, study suggests stronger de-orderonts issued before contacting other species"

 

[azzaman333]

I am neutral to the possibility of this occurring.

 

[Agent Cooper]

I'll paraphrase the character of Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park in the sense that if we were granted access to technology worth 1000s of years of research without the discipline it took to attain it, we (or at least some of us) would use it like the kid who just found his daddys loaded gun. It's in our nature.

That's just the scientific angle. I would also expect the various political and economic systems to break down. The leaders of the world would no longer have a base of power from which to legitimize their political roles. Who wants to listen to the politics of prime ministers and presidents if an alien civilization presents 'leadership' on an entirely different level?

So, my answer is no, but not because I fear our destruction by the agressions of a vastly superior civilization. We are our own worst enemy.

As long as we haven't evolved sufficently enough (scientifically, spiritually, politically etc...) on our own to handle the above scenario, I prefer us to live on our little rock in solitude.

 

[Berzerker]

If they're the source of our stories about gods, demons and angels, I'm not anxious to meet them. But I would like to know who they "worship"...

 

[Glassfan]

its not the diseases,that we have to worry about.... its the millions of other types of bacteria that don't cause disease to us and probably the millions of alien bacteria and viruses that are benign to them, it would only take one to find us a good host to wipe us out

I can see the headlines back on THEIR home world " BO destroys primitive species, study suggests stronger de-orderonts issued before contacting other species"

Good point - alien Lysol - to clean up unwanted human stain.

It actually wouldn't take much to wipe us out. They could play countries off against each another. Or just send a version of their own von Neuman machines down to start prossessing planetary resources.

 

[Rashiminos]

Mixed. It depends on the alien society in question.

 

[nutranurse]

I'm with the guys who are of the opinion that it would be all kinds of bad, even if the aliens had good intentions. I know it's an uneven comparison, but how are those Native Americans/Indigenous peoples everywhere doing?

 

[Eukaryote]

I'm almost done reading this book called "The Singularity Is Near" by Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil is a scientist/inventor who thinks that there most likely isn't any other intelligent life in the universe that has had an industrial revolution yet, because according to him, one a species hits an industrial revolution it only takes them 300, 400, or 500 years to start colonizing the entire universe (a task he predicts we will be well underway by the end of the 22nd century).

His ideas are well argued yet absurd, but if they hold weight, they make a good case for why there are NO INTELLIGENT ALIENS, period.