• T156@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    A fantastic amount of talking. The militaries would want to be in readiness, for example, just in case the extraterrestrials are not friendly, and the diplomatic corps would be doing their best to figure out how to communicate with them.

    A lot of religions might also be thrown a bit into the air by the arrival of aliens, so there would be some chatter there, too.

    Are aliens subject to human rights? Are they beings also made in God’s image, etc.

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    When one civilization meets another,.far more advanced, civilization, ehat tends to happen to the less advanced one?

    Yeah, that. It’s gonna suck.

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    Do you mean like if an alien just showed up on my doorstep and was like, “take me to your leader”? Because I would ask, “How about we just chill here for a bit?” because nothing good is going to come from the next part.

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      Okay but whatever the case, please remember that Barack Obama volunteered to be the ambassador for such an event. So if an alien shows up at your doorstep please contact Barack obama.

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        We’d better hope they don’t have healing technology to share with us because he’ll give it to the insurance industry to manage after slapping a few guard rails on it.

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    I don’t think it would be in the advantage of a smart civ to willfully contact another smart civ till it is confirmed that the “to be contacted” civ has a really good understanding of game theory.

    You cannot negotiate mutually assured destruction with a civ that does not understand what mutually assured destruction means.

    Do I think we would be destroyed if some other alien civ finds us? No. If civ A observes civ B destroying civ C, everyone would want to destroy civ B immediately. The possibility of there being peaceful contact for civ B goes away.

    Also, contacting us must be in the benefit of the civ that contacts us (assuming they are rational).

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    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.

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    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

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    10 hours ago

    At this point?

    I see 100% of the world, all the narcissists and psychopaths in power, asking them to please take them away from this horrible world

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    To be realistic I think they would have scanned our airwaves and observed from afar and decided to get the hell out of this quadrant of the galaxy. If they needed our resources then it would be like the “Independence Day” movie, only the aliens would easily win.

    • Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      Hopefully more like war of the worlds.

      “hey check out this video, they have a contingency plan if we send in ground troops”

      “They sneeze on us and we die?”

      “… We have to check if that works.”

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    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.

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    Something similar to what happened to india or Indonesia when the British/ Dutch showed up

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      I think in the event of war, it would be about as long as the time it takes for us to announce the war until it’s over. The technology to freely planet hop from another solar system is like the large hadron collider vs an ant using a leaf to cross a puddle.