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#1
Posted 07 May 2011 - 05:23 PM

I personally love the idea, mainly because I think that aliens that have the capability to get here would not destroy us. They would not need our resources since there are many more sources of material outside the earth. These sources would be from dead objects and not involve destroying a biosphere. I am sure their scientists would be fairly interested in studying us. Much like alot of scientists love to study lower life forms on this planet. C'mon ants are plenty interesting =D We could already be a 'nature preserve' and wouldn't even know it.
In terms of aliens already being here, I have the notion that there is not another alien civilization for thousands of light years in any one direction.
http://www.centauri-...ms.org/?p=17861
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers. - Carl Sagan
#2
Posted 07 May 2011 - 05:52 PM

Is deliberately trying to flag down aliens a good idea? We have no idea what their intentions might be.
I personally love the idea, mainly because I think that aliens that have the capability to get here would not destroy us. They would not need our resources since there are many more sources of material outside the earth. These sources would be from dead objects and not involve destroying a biosphere. I am sure their scientists would be fairly interested in studying us. Much like alot of scientists love to study lower life forms on this planet. C'mon ants are plenty interesting =D We could already be a 'nature preserve' and wouldn't even know it.
In terms of aliens already being here, I have the notion that there is not another alien civilization for thousands of light years in any one direction.
http://www.centauri-...ms.org/?p=17861
The Earth a nature preserve? I wish http://www.futuretim...tyle_emoticons/animate/banana.gif
I voted 'don't care' because a) I don't believe there to be an alien civilisation anywhere near us, b) if there are there's already been electromagnetic signals floating around for a few decades, c) faster-than-light travel still looks to be theoretically impossible, last I checked, d) we're not interesting enough for an advanced race to send a fleet of generation ships to study us when chances are we'll have destroyed our civilisation by the time they get here
I mean I'd like to believe humanity will be around in some shape or form 10k years from now, but I'm all but convinced we will be at the rate we **** things up at the moment. By 'we' I mean mostly govts and their masters: megacorps.
/cynic
(no bananas were harmed in making this post)
#3
Posted 07 May 2011 - 06:12 PM

#4
Posted 08 May 2011 - 01:38 PM

#5
Posted 08 May 2011 - 05:32 PM

~Jon
#6
Posted 09 May 2011 - 01:54 AM

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers. - Carl Sagan
#7
Posted 09 May 2011 - 01:42 PM

#8
Posted 09 May 2011 - 02:07 PM

In Halo, they find a bunch of Forerunner Artifacts such as a AI and shield worlds, and robotic combat drones as well as the array itself, but they never found a forerunner itself
And the immature covenant derived all its tech from the forerunners. And killed weaker civilizations with it. Practically none of their tech was invented on their own.
Humans were a target in halo rather than just being assimilated into the covenant because we has some sort of genetic compatibility with forerunner tech. The last of the forerunners chose our species as the 'reclaimer' or something like that. You hear guilty spark talk about it alot. This registered us all as artifacts with the prophets artifact detection thing. This scared the head prophet and threatened to rip the covenant apart if it ever got out. So he just labeled all humans an abomination and began wiping us out. D=
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers. - Carl Sagan
#9
Posted 09 May 2011 - 03:45 PM

#10
Posted 10 May 2011 - 04:50 AM

#11
Posted 10 May 2011 - 12:06 PM

I think it's a good idea. I think any species that would be capable of visiting us would have no reason to harm us, since they would almost certainly have the technology for mind uploading and wouldn't need to take over biospheres.
As for the distance to the nearest intelligent civilzation, if there are only 10,000 in our galaxy (That's .0000001% of all stars), then the nearest one would be 500 lightyears away! Therefore, each civilzation would have an average territory of 500 lightyears which would contain an average of 10 million stars. I'm pretty sure that an encounter with us wouldn't be a conquest.
I kind of change my idea now, probably, we won't even meet them for a thousand years, but I still would not contact them if they had technology better than us, if we piss them off slightly, we may not live
#12
Posted 10 May 2011 - 12:36 PM

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
Stephen Hawking
#13
Posted 10 May 2011 - 07:48 PM

#14
Posted 12 May 2011 - 06:35 PM

#15
Posted 12 May 2011 - 06:42 PM

It depends. A civilisation capable of interstellar travel is instantly capable of wiping out all life on a planet, easily. Perhaps an alien race might be on a singular mission to ensure they act pre-emptively and wipe out life on any other planets they encounter, just in case one day we rise up and have the same idea. Better to be safe than sorry, ehI voted yes.
I think that the chances of Aliens coming all this way with advanced technology to eat us is pretty unlikely. If they can get to us without too much trouble then they can get to planets that are uninhabited for resources. I can't see anything they would see useful we have, any tech we have would likely be in-superior to their. So in my opinion they would either study us, ignore us or help us.

~Jon
#16
Posted 13 May 2011 - 03:22 PM

Perhaps an alien race might be on a singular mission to ensure they act pre-emptively and wipe out life on any other planets they encounter
Boy that would suck... lol
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers. - Carl Sagan
#17
Posted 13 May 2011 - 03:52 PM

#18
Posted 17 May 2011 - 04:07 PM

They probably would wipe us out, I mean, what kind of alien would risk us killing them
If they could wipe us out i hardly think we are anywhere near or will ever be a threat to them. They would always be ahead of us.
In terms of wiping out, all they would have to do it send a large tungsten projectile at some percentage the speed of light at us.
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers. - Carl Sagan
#19
Posted 18 May 2011 - 05:56 PM

If they could wipe us out i hardly think we are anywhere near or will ever be a threat to them. They would always be ahead of us.
Exactly. No reason to kill us, no need to be afraid of us.
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone."
#20
Posted 18 May 2011 - 05:58 PM

Anything striking the Earth at a measurable percentage of the speed of light would devastate the planet.large tungsten projectile at some percentage the speed of light at us.
~Jon
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