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Subject: When we meet alien life for the first time...

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

...if we are capable, should we try to subjugate it?

Bear with me here. If we come across alien life, and we are at a technological stage where we are the superior ones, should we subjugate them?

Is peaceful coexistence even possible?

  • 11.30.2012 9:17 AM PDT


Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Is peaceful coexistence even possible?
For us? No.

  • 11.30.2012 9:17 AM PDT

So...

you can leave now.

We already do this with third-world countries on our own planet.

  • 11.30.2012 9:18 AM PDT

I like to play Reach for fun. I hate MLG, campers, armor lock, and team killers because they ruin that fun. Deal with it.

The best way to affiliate with an alien species is obviously to enslave them.

  • 11.30.2012 9:18 AM PDT

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Is peaceful coexistence even possible?
We don't have peaceful coexistance with other earthlings, what makes you think we can with aliens?

  • 11.30.2012 9:19 AM PDT

Depends on their culture and all. Take Apollo 18 for example, the aliens may be intelligent but not sentient. Then again they could be sentient but hold beliefs entirely different than ours and what we consider hostile may be a greeting to them.

  • 11.30.2012 9:20 AM PDT

The world is full of mysteries, and shares too few of the answers required. An example of which, is how did I end up in the Brute Zone?

100% We cannot peacefully coexist.

  • 11.30.2012 9:21 AM PDT

No, only use force if needed that's my opinion. As for a peaceful coexistence, no not in this lifetime.

  • 11.30.2012 9:21 AM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

When we write our fiction, we have hundreds of stories where the civilization we meet are ahead of us. We have very few showing what we do when we are the ones ahead.

This is what I am talking about.

  • 11.30.2012 9:21 AM PDT


Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
When we write our fiction, we have hundreds of stories where the civilization we meet are ahead of us. We have very few showing what we do when we are the ones ahead.

This is what I am talking about.


Like District 9?

  • 11.30.2012 9:21 AM PDT
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I wonder the testicle.

What do you mean when? It should rather be "If we meet alien life for the first time." and even then that's extremely unlikely.

  • 11.30.2012 9:22 AM PDT

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I work for the Department of Defense.

No theories really matter.

First thing we're going to do is demand they accept jesus christ as their savior, and when they don't, we'll go to war with em.

Not even trying to start a riot, it's just what will happen.

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  • 11.30.2012 9:22 AM PDT


Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
...if we are capable, should we try to subjugate it?

Bear with me here. If we come across alien life, and we are at a technological stage where we are the superior ones, should we subjugate them?

Is peaceful coexistence even possible?


Of course, one must take caution and "assume hostility" upon encountering an intelligent alien species - however, that does in no way mean that we should provoke them, threaten them, capture a contingency of them or perform any sort of action which may be construed as an act of war. Such an action could lead to dire consequences for the human species - who knows what tricks they might have up their sleeves? Even if they did appear less advanced than us - we still shouldn't assume that we could win any conflict with them, thus we shouldn't provoke them.

  • 11.30.2012 9:22 AM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith


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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
When we write our fiction, we have hundreds of stories where the civilization we meet are ahead of us. We have very few showing what we do when we are the ones ahead.

This is what I am talking about.


Like District 9?
Even then, they were kinda both.

But yes. More or less.

Picture a movie where we are the flying saucers that show up and land at their capital.

what would we do?

  • 11.30.2012 9:23 AM PDT

Nope we will shoot first and ask questions later as usual!

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  • 11.30.2012 9:24 AM PDT
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They call me graland.

When we meet alien life, it'll be a species comprised entirely of 7 ft. tall green women, which we'll proceed to have casual sex with.

  • 11.30.2012 9:26 AM PDT


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Posted by: foreveraloner35

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
When we write our fiction, we have hundreds of stories where the civilization we meet are ahead of us. We have very few showing what we do when we are the ones ahead.

This is what I am talking about.


Like District 9?
Even then, they were kinda both.

But yes. More or less.

Picture a movie where we are the flying saucers that show up and land at their capital.

what would we do?


I think that if it was a first world nation, like USA, we would be friendly towards them as we have no incentive to start a war and if we were going to take over the planet or something the vast majority of the public would be opposed to it. If

  • 11.30.2012 9:27 AM PDT

Love your friends, Die laughing.

Probably we'll do what Europe did to the native population of The Americas back in 1500's.

  • 11.30.2012 9:27 AM PDT

RIP Logan ~B.B.


Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
...if we are capable, should we try to subjugate it?

Bear with me here. If we come across alien life, and we are at a technological stage where we are the superior ones, should we subjugate them?

Is peaceful coexistence even possible?

Nope. If we find life elsewhere, and we are able to conquer it, it is also likely there is life out there capable of doing the same to us. If they were otherwise peaceful, they might take great offense to such an action and see us a threat when they would otherwise be eager to befriend us.

  • 11.30.2012 9:31 AM PDT

I'm your biggest fan!

Assuming we were still a democracy, I imagine we'd be relatively fair to them. We'd try to take advantage of their natural resources and possibly destroy their alien cultures but we'd never go as far as enslaving or even going to war with the entire race, unless they declared it.

There'd be no need.

  • 11.30.2012 9:32 AM PDT

RIP Logan ~B.B.


Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
When we write our fiction, we have hundreds of stories where the civilization we meet are ahead of us. We have very few showing what we do when we are the ones ahead.

This is what I am talking about.

I like Star Trek's approach. The Federation has a policy of non-intervention with less advanced species, and a policy of diplomacy before war with any species capable of space travel. I think that would be a pretty ideal approach.

  • 11.30.2012 9:34 AM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith


Posted by: Obi Wan Stevobi

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
When we write our fiction, we have hundreds of stories where the civilization we meet are ahead of us. We have very few showing what we do when we are the ones ahead.

This is what I am talking about.

I like Star Trek's approach. The Federation has a policy of non-intervention with less advanced species, and a policy of diplomacy before war with any species capable of space travel. I think that would be a pretty ideal approach.


That's what you would like to happen, but what do you think would happen?

  • 11.30.2012 9:40 AM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Since the most likely form (at least based on the history of life on this planet) is going to be microbial, I don't know if subjugation would be an issue or question.

I suspect that (with that sort of single cell life being most likely) we would attempt to isolate, examine and do our best to understand precisely how it differs from us and where it and we are similar. Then, using that understanding, we would (as we have done before) look for ways to utilize that knowledge to produce new technology that we think would "improve our lives". And if that involved "using" non-terran life? I don't think that we would have much pause, other than the fears of us being compromised and overcome by "mutating alien diseases and/or parasites that we didn't understand as well as we had assumed".

If "intelligence is a spectrum" and we are a point on that spectrum here on Earth, with single-cell protozoa at the "null or near null" of the progression and chimps, whales and us at the other end, I would imagine that there would be other worlds where "our top level of intelligence" might be closer to the middle of another world's "graph". In which case, we would likely be beneath their notice and possibly incapable of recognizing THEM as being at the top of their scale or even registering as life to us.

The idea that there would be nearby (reachable via physical transit) life that just happens to be (in these particular hundred or so years that we've been cognizant and looking at the stars in this way, the idea that nearby life capable of making the trip would be at a similar stage of development as we..... well, that'd be like a bullet hitting a bullet when each one is fired light-years away. Or rolling 2 dice (both multi-billion sided) once a year and expecting them to come up "matching doubles" sometime soon.

If those of us who are "looking up and looking out" are anticipating anything close to a mirror image? They haven't clearly thought things through and multiplied the events involved in life's billion year progression and current state (not final conclusion) of us (which is a spec in the timeline) and then multiplying that by interstellar distance... Or, while enjoying Star Trek, Doctor Who and Star Wars, they missed the fact that the aliens in those shows looked human because they/we ARE human.

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  • 11.30.2012 9:40 AM PDT

If we do meet aliens and we are the superiors...then yeah, it'll probably end up like District 9.

  • 11.30.2012 9:44 AM PDT

Who am I?

mah twitter

lol why was Garland's comment reported?

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