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« on: March 03, 2008, 11:05:12 AM » |
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First off I don't believe aliens have actually found or interacted with us.
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Lets suppose the crackpot theries about "greys', UFO's, Roswell and so on were confirmed. Lets make a leap of faith and asume that the technology boom after WWII are because of reverse engineered UFO tech. And then lets say it became revealed to the world masses that aliens really do exist. Lets say... they made an apperance at the next presidential inaguration. What would be the effect on the world? How would people change how we see the world, the universe, and each other?
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« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2008, 01:01:26 PM » |
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It could be a cool discovery like E.T. or it could be endless chaos like Independence Day.
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« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2008, 05:22:28 PM » |
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I'd say we suck at reverse engineering.
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« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2008, 11:15:14 PM » |
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It all depends on what they are like. If they are just like us in appearance there really would not be much of anything. God forbid if they were phsically different, I can see all the new nutjobs and the endless discussion about whether they would be considered human and given the same rights, whether or not they would be entitled to patents and other intellectual property for whatever technology they posess. If intermarriage and interbreeding with them is moral or not, also who will own the trademark and the patent for the "aliens", afterall there will be many who will want to cash in on their new discovery, heck we may even end up colonizing their planet, galaxy or universe........... For the past few days I have been watching an awesome BBC documentary called history of racism. It offers a bleak insight into what humanity is capable of. The sufferring brought unto man by fellow man leaves no doubt about our capacity to bring sufferring unto extraterrestrial beings with the ultimate motive of greed.... First off I don't believe aliens have actually found or interacted with us.
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Lets suppose the crackpot theries about "greys', UFO's, Roswell and so on were confirmed. Lets make a leap of faith and asume that the technology boom after WWII are because of reverse engineered UFO tech. And then lets say it became revealed to the world masses that aliens really do exist. Lets say... they made an apperance at the next presidential inaguration. What would be the effect on the world? How would people change how we see the world, the universe, and each other?
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« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2008, 11:43:18 PM » |
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I have a contact who is actually in the business of E.T. pre-history: http://www.legendarytimes.com/giorgio/It quite interesting and thought provoking. I can't say I'm a believer but its nice to think outside mainstream tradition and science from time2time. |
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« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2008, 06:24:13 AM » |
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Now I'm beginning to wonder if the aliens we may someday meet look like this:  |
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« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2008, 08:57:26 AM » |
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I wonder if the meeting would be like that Twilight Zone episode, where the alien leaves behind a book called How to Serve Man and it wasn't until a lot of the UFOs were taking people back to the other planet that it was discovered that it was a cook book.
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« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2008, 09:57:03 PM » |
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I find the whole idea that any entity that is so technologically advanced that they can achieve interstellar travel would not have solved it's most basic (food) problem disturbing. The very notion of interstellar travel (possibly FTL for it to be feasible) implies that the aliens would have had to solve the problem of energy, after which almost any other problem can be solved. I wonder if the meeting would be like that Twilight Zone episode, where the alien leaves behind a book called How to Serve Man and it wasn't until a lot of the UFOs were taking people back to the other planet that it was discovered that it was a cook book.
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« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2008, 02:08:05 PM » |
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I find the whole idea that any entity that is so technologically advanced that they can achieve interstellar travel would not have solved it's most basic (food) problem disturbing. The very notion of interstellar travel (possibly FTL for it to be feasible) implies that the aliens would have had to solve the problem of energy, after which almost any other problem can be solved.
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« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2008, 09:06:40 AM » |
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Or maybe they are just conoseurs of rare and interesting meat  |
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« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2008, 03:19:32 AM » |
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Yeah, but what makes us think we are so interesting? After all we are just a lump of organic matter which can be lab generated given enough technology........ Given a breaktrough in energy it will be possible to, artificially, synthesize anything........ Or maybe they are just conoseurs of rare and interesting meat |
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« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2008, 04:19:07 AM » |
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I wouldn't be surprised if war happened...
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« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2008, 08:08:43 AM » |
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War is a possibility. I also think it could be the end of religion, especially if they did things consistent with the miracles described in the bible. Wouldn't it be interesting if religion was nothing but the by-product of the influence of aliens? Angels and demons were nothing but our mind interpreting the sights that our brin couldn't logically decipher? What if we were even programed to follow these people when they came back? What if the second coming of Jesus was nothing more but a call to arms to fight their enemy? It's why I've always liked Babylon 5. His take on religion was just... intruiging...  |
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« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2008, 06:17:36 PM » |
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wasn't there a twilight zone episode about this? aliens had invaded a town, and caused a power outage and people grew fearful of the unknown, which led them to turn on each other. the aliens were able to destroy the town without actually attacking anyone. I guess the moral was that we're just so brutish by nature, that in times of peril, we'll just kill ourselves or each other because of prejudices ... or something along those lines. The episode was titled, "The monsters on maple street" (one of the best episodes!) http://youtube.com/watch?v=LzAGZHOqH74&feature=related |
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« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2008, 01:45:15 PM » |
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None of the above.
There will be an extra UN council meeting and every decision will be taken by politics.
Everything will depend on wether they want to invade our planet or not. If not everything will be fine, if yes we are toast.
I'm 100% sure that we never reverse-enginered any alien technology and that we would be incapable of such a thing. If they can cross interstellar space, they technology is too advanced for us to reproduce with our technology.
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