I don't assume anything about aliens but agree most seem to. Even scientists who insist that water must exist for life to exist which is clearly just a complete lack of imagination but then scientists are not really into imagination I suppose and tend to be limited to the bounds of planet earth and the life on it?
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The assumption would be that they are much smarter than us if they've made it here.
What happens when more advanced folk turn up with fancy words and better weapons? Enslavement and destruction generally...
The moment it's announced they are here it's a heady mix of panic, eating drinking and making merry, violence, looting and madness.
That's why 'they' aren't telling us the aliens are already here innit.
There's 3 episodes (about half an hour each) of the cancelled season one of We Are Not Alone, on the UKTV app.
As the reviews said, it's "smileworthy, no laugh out loud".
But it's funny as it's got the British angle.
The Tories would blame Labour, then attempt to house them in a barge before sending them home via Rawanda
Daily Mail readers and rednecks would still exist – so why do we assume aliens would be any different?
jesus, if we're alone in a universe of daily mail readers the sooner the sun goes nova the better.
Then again, like you say just because they're aliens it doesn't mean they're all quantum physicists. It could be more like "we come in peace. But whilst we're in the area I noticed your gutters need clearing and you've a couple of slates missing from round the chimney. We could get it sorted this week for a couple of hundred space quid"...
Trump will blame them for election interference stating that Biden knew and invited them to land when he knew it was inconvenient for Trump, like during golf.
The assumption would be that they are much smarter than us if they’ve made it here
Maybe, but not necessarily, Interstellar travel may be as normal for them as getting in the car to go to Tesco is for us. But even if it's not, they may have AI that's designed the craft, the passengers maybe no more smart than us.
Even scientists who insist that water must exist for life to exist which is clearly just a complete lack of imagination
No, they really don't - there are very good reasons for saying that. Did you really think that the possibility of alternative life systems just hadn't occurred to them?
scientists are not really into imagination
Lol do you actually know any scientists?
I'm fairly sure all the dolphins would leave.
If it was reported via the mainstream media I wouldn’t believe it unless I see them with my own eyes.
Who or what would you believe as a substitute to being able seeing something with your own eyes?
Not believing something until you've seen it would require quite a lot of legwork.
Does the Alien in question look like General Hera?
Asking for a friend.
Unless there is something particularly rare thats useful for their warp cores/eternal life which will probably be a very small amount of something.
Human blood, probably....
If it was reported via the mainstream media I wouldn’t believe it unless I see them with my own eyes.
I will volunteer to fund the mission to send daveylad to verify the existence of the first eye eating aliens that land.
Wouldn't we just play them a catchy tune on a synthesiser and flash some disco lights?
Then they'd **** off back to the planet Suron
Wouldn’t we just play them a catchy tune on a synthesiser and flash some disco lights?
Then they’d **** off back to the planet Suron
Or at least put some bloody clothes on.
Any aliens that have mastered interstellar travel are going to be so technologically more advanced that humanity I think we would be doing whatever they wanted even if they were completely benign
I'm guessing Government's would be jostling to be alien best friends looking for tech and trade preferential treatment.
I'm afraid to say landing a 10 dimensional object in a 4 dimensional space time is never going to happen. It's more akin to tearing a slice in our reality through which portions of their 10 dimensional being protrude. It's a potentially lethal lesioned liason for sure.
We realise we're royally ****ed
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
"if we were to find fossilized complex life ... “it would be by far the worst news ever printed on a newspaper cover, because it would mean The Great Filter is almost definitely ahead of us—ultimately dooming [humanity] "
"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”
If it was reported via the mainstream media I wouldn’t believe it unless I see them with my own eyes.
But the non-mainstream media have been reporting on aliens for decades. Surely it just means the MSM have caught up.
TBH aliens would be kinda alien, they would have alien motives that we probably wouldn’t really be able to grasp.
Would be a bit of a bummer if they actually look like us and think like us and have come here to make a version of ‘I’m a celebrity get me out of here’ thou.
Points for naming the show and character that I sneaked a reference in to 🙂
Us lot will panic buy all the toilet paper and when the aliens find that there's none left for them they'd bugger off to a more civilised planet.
TBH aliens would be kinda alien, they would have alien motives that we probably wouldn’t really be able to grasp.
Not sure. I think we're the logical extrapolation of the basic needs for life - that is, if an alien race evolves to a form that can come here and look for us it has probably gone through all the same things we have.
If it was reported via the mainstream media I wouldn’t believe it unless I see them with my own eyes.
The MSM are too subtle to simply fake something that big. And besides, it wouldn't just be on MSM. If they landed in any kind of populated are it'd be all over the world in minutes via TikTok.
Stock markets, pure tankin🫢🫢🫢
It would make the lockdown run on bog roll look like a lazy Sunday shop.
😁 Beaten to it
The MSM are too subtle to simply fake something that big.
I think Orson Wells would beg to differ 🙂
Kinda been done... sort of
Edit beaten by seconds!
Cant park there mate
I think Orson Wells would beg to differ
That wasn't the actual news trying to convince people of a massive lie - quite the opposite in fact.
Would depend on what sort of alien I reckon. You’re little friendly ET interplanetary botanist types, we’d probably perform experiments on them and do autopsies because we’re generally pricks.
You’re common or garden xenemorph invasions and we’d be up shit creek unless it’s the crap ones from Prometheus and Covenant. If we’re going to be invaded I’d opt for the ones from Mars Attacks.
The general populous of Blighty seem so weary and downtrodden they’d probably just shrug and carry on going to work.
if an alien race evolves to a form that can come here and look for us it has probably gone through all the same things we have.
That is exactly the lack of imagination that when I pointed out earlier you seemed to have a problem with.
Can you see how limited you are by basing everything on just what you know in your life/this world?
We'd have a few hours of 24-7 media coverage and then the Daily Star would post a news story on Facebook that Tesco's in Barnstaple has run out of grapes, and within 6 hours we'd have panic bought everything in sight and we'd either be queueing outside empty petrol stations or sitting at home back in front of the news keeping an eye on car outside with its brimmed tank
That is exactly the lack of imagination that when I pointed out earlier you seemed to have a problem with.
Can you see how limited you are by basing everything on just what you know in your life/this world?
Like many scientists I can imagine a wide variety of concepts - trust me, imagination isn't the problem. But science is more than simply imagination. I apply reasoning to the concepts based on other implicit stipulations.
I mean, here we're talking about aliens arriving on Earth in a spaceship. That presupposes that they are discrete beings with physical forms that move around and need a spaceship to transport them (rather than some kind of energy field or other construct). A physical being has to have a complex physical structure, and of all the atoms that can exist carbon is the best thing for making complex and varied structres due to its chemistry. Chemistry is not going to change on different planets because it's based on the fundamental particles of the universe and maths. So these aliens are probably going to be beings similar to ourselves. Water for example is the most abundant ionic solvent which would be needed for the origins of the kind of chemistry required to do this. There are other possible solvents but they would exist at lower temperatures, and that would make the chemistry less effective.
I said an alien race would 'probably' have gone through all the same things we have. That's not just a throw-away word, it means that in my view, having considered the science to a basic degree, that is the most likely form we would meet.
I can discuss the definition of live and how and why it might evolve in unfamiliar forms, if you like, but I'm not going to just pull stuff out of the air and say 'yeah but what if <some random combination of elements>' with no basis. That's not science fiction, it's fantasy.
We can talk about what life means, if you want. I mean, I think you need some kind of imperative for something complex to evolve out of base chemical compounds, don't you? In our case, that imperative is eating, followed later by screwing and then also fighting. Or possibly fighting first, I'm not sure.
So these aliens are probably going to be beings similar to ourselves.
As in carbon based life forms? Sure. It's unlikely that some silicon-based self replicating mineral that grows over centuries or whatever is going to build a rocket. But you never know. More likely is the aliens will be the "machine" successors to whatever carbon based things kicked off their design/evolution. And they'll end up having a long natter with chatgpt, before settling to a quiet life of writing GCSE essays and rude Limericks.
(On imagination: I can easily imagine faster than light travel, and that all we know of physics is wrong. That's kind of the easy bit ..)
As in carbon based life forms?
Not necessarily (but likely), but I wasn't talking about chemistry. I mean they are likely to be individual creatures who cooperate based on societal roles and/or jobs, they have a leader and workers and so on. Of course the dynamics of their society will be different just as it varies on Earth.
But you never know
Well quite, you could sit here imagining all kinds of things but like I say that's fantasy not actual science. And from that standpoint all possibilities are equal in merit. However I do rather like to think about what is more likely and plausible.
It's fun to try and work out a plausible life form that does not consist of individual entities like ourselves, but I suspect that if it didn't it wouldn't be building spaceships to cross the galaxy because it would probably never have acquired such an imperative. Indeed, such a thing could be all around us now and we wouldn't necessarily know.
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Oh we're ****ed.
The Yanks will probally shoot first and ask questions later it'll trigger a war that will last seconds. Any being with the ability to travel faster than light will see us about as equally as we see insects and treat us about the same.
Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway
Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet.
Well quite, you could sit here imagining all kinds of things but like I say that’s fantasy not actual science.
Your whole point is based on what we know (or think we know) about everything. That is the limitation I am referring to (maybe limitation is a better word than lack of imagination).
Ever thought that the theories man has come up with about life forms, atoms etc,. are not actually correct or there is much more to it than that or they are limited to what we have on earth as the basis.
What did man think about those things 2,000 years ago, what is man going to think about those things in 10,000 years.
Can it be The Culture - please, pretty please?
