Breed with them and eat them.
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If you subtract the satire from the movie Mars Attacks, pretty much that. Uh uh uh.
So we need to stockpile a crap load of Slim Whitman albums.
Its so hard to say. So much depends on what is possible interstellar travel wise. If light speed is the limit it would likely be with probes and its kinda unlikely that if they could send things out that far and communicate back that they would need many elemental resources and they would have energy needs solved. Honestly I think its very unlikely we would meet any unless we travel outward. Like I think its more likely their probes would meet our probes and maybe we could get somewhat of an idea of where we came from and where we are going but it would take years to have communications. If there is something faster then its essentially magic by our standards and that just makes things more up in the air.
That's what I was thinking, a probe would gather some information. Maybe we would send a probe of our own in their direction.
I like to think it’s also the aliens’ first contact too, and they’re really happy to find us after groping around alone in the darkness.
Depends where and how. If alien space ship crash landed on earth, I'm pretty sure every government would be eager to salvage every bit of priceless tech onboard.
But if it was a diplomatic mission with controlled first contact over radio signals, then it would probably go very differently.
Anal probe.
Depends, did we find them first or did they find us first? I project our colonial past as a fear of what more advanced aliens would do. Because that's what we would do to any alien natives. Very unlikely we are technologically tied in progress.
If they find us first, then mass panic at least at first.
Not sure but I have said that it'll happen under Trump. It has to. The way things go lately this is just expected at this point
Same thing that happened to the tribal native people during colonization.
Lots of people getting probed against their will.
The extraterrestrials would soon enslave or kill us, and plunder the planet for resources. Positively, should humans travel to another planet, we would soon enslave or kill the inhabitants, and plunder the planet for resources. Luckily both won’t ever happen; space is too big.
Why go through the hassle of plundering an inhabited planet in a remote system when there are near unlimited uninhabited planets to pick all over?
To name two examples: One of the substances found on Earth but likely absent on most exoplanets is liquid water. Another candidate is free oxygen (O₂) . On most exoplanets, oxygen is often bound in compounds (like CO₂ or H₂O) rather than existing as a free gas in the atmosphere.
I'd imagine for a civilization advanced enough for not only interstellar travel but suggestively FTL if they are running some kind of logistics operations across star systems, they would not have issues neither of hoovering gas clouds or splitting molecules and recombining them into desired materials nor have a problem with any amount of energy required. Damn, their physics and chemistry is probably at a quantum level so they can make whatever elements they want and have the need of none.
Unless FTL travel and communications is stupid simple that we have missed some basic discoveries that would solve the Fermi paradox because we didn't know what to listen or look for.
YOU ARE BUGS
Pish ever exterminate bugs from home? Gas, trap, plug the holes, and They'll will always come back.
Only difference is what humans lack in strength and numbers they make up for in will and tenacity. Plus bugs aren't vindictive. They just be living.
Pretty sure we'd have no communication with the alien that wasn't just corrupt politicians trying to speak for us to get some sort of trade out of them to increase their own power. It's too important for any/all normal people to have a voice, and then when the aliens dislike the abhorrent greed we'll probably just suffer some how more than we already do. I'd say we're better off not reporting any alien sightings. I would trust almost any human on earth more talking to aliens on my behalf than a so called leader currently. Maybe Ireland, Spain, a handful of others have better than regular Joe leaders, but it's rare.
When one civilization meets another, far more advanced, civilization, what tends to happen to the less advanced one?
Yeah, that. It's gonna suck.
Doubtful. That happened here because we need both resources and living space while harvesting those resources. Anything aliens need can be gotten from hundreds of dead worlds and asteroids and stars. And any civilization able to cross galaxies should be able to make their own mobile livingspaces just as comfortable as a planet.
Except maybe they can't do any of that any more, and they're living a nomadic existence as the remnants of a civilization near the end of its life and a stellar event pushed them onto a fleet of generation ships and they've centuries roaming in ships that are increasingly taking apart around them.
Just because you can launch a ship or 3000 into space doesn't mean you can do it well or all that safely.
After all, we have the technology right now, to build such a generational fleet of ships and send them off. We just don't do it because there's no real impetus to do so, but I can guarantee that if we knew for certain that absolute death was coming our way with no way of stopping it, escaping would be one of the things we would try to do.
Being able to get here doesn't mean squat if it was just a random choice based on old light and a "that star looks like the best candidate we can reach in less than 300 years."
Just because humans haven't gone outside the orbit of earth doesn't mean we don't have the capability of it. We're just trying to do it safely.
Imagine if we didn't care how many died as long as some of us made it?
I mean that's how the old USSR did things...
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I mean, at that point you're saying they're not much more advanced than us, soooo.... I'd place bets on us shooting them out of the sky.
Except they have the high ground. They can drop rocks on us.
Also, being able to use technical devices doesn't mean you understand them or know how to make them.
Maybe the civilization they were in before would be able to do all that, but they can't now, doesn't mean they don't still have a few "super weapons" they can fall back on.
Or, like I said, just throw heavy objects at us. It's easier to go from orbit to ground than from ground to orbit.
Depending on how similar our physiology is, a lot of very contagious infections like when we entered the Americas.
Assuming the intent is meeting and not conquer or eradicate, because if we meet them they are certainly more advanced in technology than us.
Probably looking for similarities in communication and maybe some kind of high security hosting behavior.
After communication has been established, hopefully diplomatic ties are established.