Don't Talk To aliens

[Atheist-Lite]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/s ... 107207.ece

THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.

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So....

[Atheist-Lite]

Ratianalia is smarter than Seti. Cool.

[JimC]

But an endless interstellar war with vicious aliens will be excellent news, as long as we don't get immediately get wiped out! It will immediately bring our petty wars and conflicts to a close, be an excellent stimulus to our technology, as well as providing a perfect guilt-free outlet for the xenophobic violence which lurks at our core, longing to be released at targets which do not also provoke occasional conflicting compassion!

Bring it on, slime balls!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

But an endless interstellar war with vicious aliens will be excellent news, as long as we don't get immediately get wiped out! It will immediately bring our petty wars and conflicts to a close, be an excellent stimulus to our technology, as well as providing a perfect guilt-free outlet for the xenophobic violence which lurks at our core, longing to be released at targets which do not also provoke occasional conflicting compassion!

Bring it on, slime balls!

But but but - they have laser-eyed robots and mind control cannons!

[JimC]

But an endless interstellar war with vicious aliens will be excellent news, as long as we don't get immediately get wiped out! It will immediately bring our petty wars and conflicts to a close, be an excellent stimulus to our technology, as well as providing a perfect guilt-free outlet for the xenophobic violence which lurks at our core, longing to be released at targets which do not also provoke occasional conflicting compassion!

Bring it on, slime balls!

But but but - they have laser-eyed robots and mind control cannons!

We can still fuck them up big time - we have hominid urges for bloodshed and mayhem, the like of which the galaxy has never seen!

After we knock over our first alien species, coalitions of other alien groups will be bidding big-time for human mercenaries, the most feared close-combat force in the known galaxy!

(Have I been reading too much of a certain type of SF? You be the judge...)

[laklak]

I was talking to one the other day, between my pigeon Spanish and his pigeon English and a fair bit of charades we managed to negotiate a price for cutting the lawn.

[Warren Dew]

But an endless interstellar war with vicious aliens will be excellent news, as long as we don't get immediately get wiped out! It will immediately bring our petty wars and conflicts to a close, be an excellent stimulus to our technology, as well as providing a perfect guilt-free outlet for the xenophobic violence which lurks at our core, longing to be released at targets which do not also provoke occasional conflicting compassion!

Fat chance of that. Our wars will continue, exploited by the aliens to our disadvantage. We'll become dependent on technology we don't understand, and ultimately end up confined to reservations on the lands least valuable to the aliens.

[JimC]

But an endless interstellar war with vicious aliens will be excellent news, as long as we don't get immediately get wiped out! It will immediately bring our petty wars and conflicts to a close, be an excellent stimulus to our technology, as well as providing a perfect guilt-free outlet for the xenophobic violence which lurks at our core, longing to be released at targets which do not also provoke occasional conflicting compassion!

Fat chance of that. Our wars will continue, exploited by the aliens to our disadvantage. We'll become dependent on technology we don't understand, and ultimately end up confined to reservations on the lands least valuable to the aliens.

Always mister negativity!



Try reading the "Uplift Wars" saga by David Brin for complex interstellar politics and war...

[Atheist-Lite]

Smart aliens will get the dumb saps to terraform the planet using something, perhaps a engine of somekind in vehicles that increase a dumb saps range on the planets surface? Then they could wipe them out with a simple virus for which the saps have no immunity.

[mistermack]

Smart aliens will get the dumb saps to terraform the planet using something, perhaps a engine of somekind in vehicles that increase a dumb saps range on the planets surface? Then they could wipe them out with a simple virus for which the saps have no immunity.

It's highly unlikely that highly developed aliens would need our planet, except for raw materials. If they evolved underwater, they would be used to being weightless, and space stations would be perfectly ok for a permanent home for them. It would be a huge coincidence if they evolved on a planet so similar to earth that they could live here.