Do you expect to see a certain conspiracy theory confirmed? Do you expect to see some technology revealed? Do you expect to see the colonisation of space or something? What do you think will happen after?
if aliens were real, i’d hope they have really cool non-warfare technology that we can steal. hopefully they haven’t invented space copyright or trademark equivalents.
My wife just watched that disclosure 2025 movie. I dunno.
I’m kinda with John Michael Godier on this one:
Any species capable of trivializing the distance between us and them would also find it comically easy to remain completely undetected.
If they were here and wanted us to know, we’d know. They’re not going to play ‘just the tip’ with us and be cryptic or hard to get.
I am extraordinarily skeptical that they’d come all this way and bungle the covert surveillance this bad.
we would be ants in an ant farm to them.
ants don’t have the cognitive or communicative ability to know they are on an ant farm.
I don’t believe aliens have been to earth so there’s nothing to cover up. I’m personally pessimistic that we’ll ever encounter alien life, intelligent or not. The universe is so vast and the time scale so deep that there’s certainly something else out there but the odds of us running into one another are next to impossible.
But I like to think that somewhere out there there’s another species just as alone as we are, howling into the void. And I wonder what would happen if we did finally meet, if they found us after groping around in the darkness for who knows how long and rather than attacking us or lecturing us they just rejoiced that they weren’t alone anymore.And we’d ask them about the vast galaxy-spanning metacivilization of countless other sophonts that most sci-fi seems to take for granted and they’d shrug and say “Nope it’s just you and us, lonely together.”
I hope they take me back to my home planet
I hope they’re so much smarter than us that our brains aren’t even capable of understanding their thought. Like a chimpanzee compared to a human. I hope they’re benevolent and take pity on us like how I spoil my rescue dog. With how cruel we are to each other , we can’t be that smart
“Are they hot?”
“Look at the heck as in that hewzimek”
“Oh yeah, suck my jargon, yeah. Oh now I’m going to suck your jagon. Oh my god yeeeeaahh”
World Peace ✌️
I’m not arrogant enough to think we are the only intelligent life out there, but at the same time, Earth is kind of at the ass end of space, so I also can’t believe that any species capable of getting all the way out here would find anything remotely interesting here.
Just saw a show where aliens went to hotel on earth specifically because it was ass end of space for a clandestine meeting.
Earth no better place to cheat on your spouse!
While I agree that the universe is too vast for any species to meet another one, I secretly hope that if we do it will unite us.
That humanity will realize we are the same species, stop fighting and ruining our world to go fight them and ruin their world (cause that’s what we do and love).
Also that we will react with the golden retriever mindset of two existential questions:
- Can I eat this?
- Can I fuck this?
You’ll have to fight me for the privilege of fighting the aliens for their resources. If I can’t have them, no one will!
I’m glad to announce that you’ve been promoted to 1st line starship space marines troopers.
Make us proud, for Earth and controlled democracy.
I don’t believe that for a second. Some say it’s a rebranding of the nephilim or demons of some sort. I think it’s fake regardless of if it’s rebranded demons or not.
I think the scariest thing to people would be to find out that aliens have known about us for a very long time, but just see us as pests and ignore us until.we start getting into the intergalactic grain storage. Then they send the equivalent of an exterminator to get rid of us. I think that would break a lot of people.
I forget where I saw this comment, but once in a while I think about it and chuckle.
Can you imagine finding planet Earth and wonder why all their nukes are pointed at themselves?
I think that a lot of people are gonna feel dissapointed if any info is revealed. The fantasy tends to be jucier than the reality. I too would like to clap that blue alien from mass effect but it aint gonna happen ;_;
I’ll twist your question a bit. When I get asked “is there such thing as ghosts” I used to say no absolutely not, no evidence. However, as I’ve grown I’ve changed my answer to “I don’t know”. I think conventional ghosts as people see them could be anything, we have used superstition to explain the unknown before. How can we possibly know that there are or not, with other dimensions, space time, and general weirdness we just don’t understand. To be blunt we understand so little that who knows.
I apply the same to aliens. Very well could be here, and very well could know how to hide themselves. There’s zero evidence of it so we shouldn’t adopt policy assuming that or anything, that would be insane, but with vast amounts of unknowable, well how can I say no?
I mean.
That’s how science works.
We don’t say that is impossible. We say we have no evidence that that is possible.
I mean, if history is any guide they’ll either wipe us all out with superior technology, enslave us, or some space disease will kill us all. Regardless, I’d anticipate it going poorly for humanity
I don’t think that is what would happen.
If your have the technology for interstellar travel, why would you need slaves? Interstellar travel implies you have automation, automation means slavery, outside of just being cruel, is obsolete.
If you have superior technology, you’d likely be knowledgeable about the other parts of science and know that you may carry germs that are harmless to you but dangerous to us. They’d likely have learnt this the hard way, like we have.
Also, why would thier first reaction to new life be “Exterminatus”? That ship suggests high technology, high technology suggests science, science suggests curiousity. A lot of the people who say “they’ll exterminate us like rats” either have watched too much sci fi or have a cursory knowledge of history. As someone who actually has history qualifications the reason Columbus killed so many people was because:
- He was a greedy bastard who valued Gold in a way the Natives did not.
- He was a psycho who believed that if he didn’t get what he wanted the best reaction was violence so hard that his own government imprisoned him for what he did.
- He was a religious nut looking to convert people and recruit them for a fucking crusade.
Man was a psycho by the standards of his time, but that’s not to say more horrific things weren’t done in the name of economics.
The factors that drove the imperialists of the new world wasn’t “lol just because”, it was mainly capitalism and the need to extract labour from the populace for their own financial gain. In short. Resource extraction driven by the desire for power. Now that’s scary, but we’re assuming these aliens are driven by the same economic factors.
Ok. So let’s assume that somehow the aliens want resources. They gonna get them from Earth? Well, there is nothing here that isn’t found in greater abundance in our asteroid belt or moons bar cultural products or products of life, and most of those will likely not be compatible with them. The earth is far more valuable as something to study, you know, because it’s an independent ecosystem with a technological civilisation, they xeno-biologists and xeno-anthropologists would be all up in that while the rest of the fleet mine asteroids in the belt
Think of it this way. You’re out in the woods, and you see a crow hop across your path, take a twig, and hop back. As your eye follows the crow you see smoke, like from a small campfire. You go into the bush towards the smoke and you find a collection of thatched roof and mud structures about waist high to you and loads of crows living in them. There’s a crow in the background with a little stone hammer building something, another seemingly in the process of smoking fish, and yet more doing various tasks. Is your reaction going to be “they don’t have smartphones so they’re worthless”? No! Your reaction is going to be 'Holy shit, crow village" and you’re going to alert the university because the crows have gone from the early stone age to the fucking Bronze age.
I don’t think the reaction of aliens will be like us to chimps, even if it was, we study chimps, their reaction would likely be “holy shit, they’re sending probes out, they’re doing science” because if a species is too dumb to recognise a fucking space probe as technology, they’re too dumb to actually make it to space.
If they’ve watched us at all they realize how dangerous we are. They might exterminate us if we seem liable to become technologically advanced enough to be dangerous. If we don’t seem very close to that, the question would be is it more trouble /expense to wipe us out or to keep an eye on us?
I want to mess around with a three titty alien!
Visit Eroticon 6, ask for Eccentrica.
Death by snoo snoo!
Wouldn’t it be snoo snoo snoo?
Ah a scientist is among us
