So lets say we discover aliens....

[-King-]

...then what?




How much would it change life today? Would all hell break loose? How would people handle a discovery of that magnitude? We are assuming that the aliens are intelligent and not just micro organisms.


:bong:

[Bowser]

It would radically alter our belief system, and all hell would break lose.

[notorious]

Cats and Dogs will live together.

[KurtCobain]

We'd just be like oh wow.

We could never reach them, and I doubt they could ever reach us, space is big.

[niblet]

Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis
http://sethbaum.com/ac/2011_ET-Scenarios.pdf

I enjoyed reading this.

[rico]

If they were hostile aliens, it would increase the chances of global unity (amongst humans).

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

tax them. /gubment

[DeezNutz]

tax them. /gubment

Well, first we need to measure their income.

[-King-]

Would Contact with Extraterrestrials Benefit or Harm Humanity? A Scenario Analysis
http://sethbaum.com/ac/2011_ET-Scenarios.pdf

I enjoyed reading this.

Reading it now. I laughed at On an individual level they may not be interested in killing us, but may be interested
in incorporating us into their civilization so they can sell us their products, keep us as pets, or
have us mine raw materials for them.

Never thought of that possibility before.

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Well, first we need to measure their income.

We could start by commisioning a study paid for with tax money.

[Reaper16]

We'll be totally fine. People of certain faiths will not believe that we discovered aliens, so their behavior won't change.

[In58men]

We'd just be like oh wow.

We could never reach them, and I doubt they could ever reach us, space is big.


We should be brothers?

[KCrockaholic]

We need to get in good with them and be their friends cause if we choose any other direction then bad things would happen.

[Dave Lane]

If they were hostile aliens, it would increase the chances of global unity (amongst humans).

Not as long as there were any tea party members left standing.

[milkman]

I predict we'll discover aliens before the Chiefs draft a first round QB.

[WV]

If humans are the smartest beings in the universe it's pretty sad. :)

[Fish]

Well we sure as hell won't let them get married.... We've got to protect that...

[Gadzooks]

I hope they're not insects. I hate bugs. They're grody to the max. Ewww.

[Just Passin' By]

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2725/4328714805_65496cfca4_z.jpg

[In58men]

**** aliens. If any of those cock suckers want a piece they know where to find me.

**** aliens and **** your family. G-Unit

[chefsos]

Advanced ETI within 100 light years could receive our earliest radio transmissions;
those less than 50 light years away could watch our television shows; and those less than 10
light years away could receive our earliest intentional METI attempts....

Perhaps ETI actually do inhabit nearby star systems and detect
our radio leakage but have no plans to send a response until we send them a more intentional
message. They may be unimpressed with the quality of our broadcastsI always hated McHale's Navy, too.

[Mr. Laz]

A ton of religious people would just freak because it conflicts with the idea that we are GODs one and only children. It would be like a billion christians going through the 7 steps of grief, all at once.

of course there would be a significant amount of people wanting to play Global Thermonuclear War.

[Rasputin]

http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii574/KCTattoo58/MV5BMjA3MDk1MzcxN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTYzNDIyMQ_V1_SX362_SY475_1-2-1.jpg

[Ace Gunner]

...then what?




How much would it change life today? Would all hell break loose? How would people handle a discovery of that magnitude? We are assuming that the aliens are intelligent and not just micro organisms.


:bong:

well, lets see now.. beings that visit from outer fucking space and shit. light years away and all that, because if we knew they were there well then we'd make them sign a no nuke agreement or shoot 'em.

so ya. it would be bigger than inventing the transistor. much bigger.

[lcarus]

Your spoiler literally made me laugh out loud.

[Ace Gunner]

A ton of religious people would just freak because it conflicts with the idea that we are GODs one and only children. It would be like a billion christians going through the 7 steps of grief, all at once.

of course there would be a significant amount of people wanting to play Global Thermonuclear War.

and then there's that.

[Bump]

we already have, thousands of times.

[BIG_DADDY]

So let's say we discover a rave den filled with teenage nyphomaniacs a block from your house............................

[Lumpy]

Do you people not watch movies? GAH!!!

Load up the water guns. M. Night Shamalamadingdong knows things.

http://www.explore-science-fiction-movies.com/images/reptilian-aliens-signs.jpg

[sd4chiefs]

...then what?




How much would it change life today? Would all hell break loose? How would people handle a discovery of that magnitude? We are assuming that the aliens are intelligent and not just micro organisms.


:bong:

It's more like if aliens discover us. They would just kill us all and rape our planet. Have a nice day.

[Okie_Apparition]

Screw those window peeping tommyknockers
ruining the siding with their spooge fungus

[Rasputin]

What if we ARE the aliens????!!!????!!!??

whoooooooh

[Ugly Duck]

So let's say we discover aliens....

http://chadandjoel.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/mexicans1.jpg?w=344&h=307

[Fire Me Boy!]

How the hell did it take 34 posts for this?

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8086/133619026297.jpg

[Easy 6]

Do you people not watch movies? GAH!!!

Load up the water guns. M. Night Shamalamadingdong knows things.

http://www.explore-science-fiction-movies.com/images/reptilian-aliens-signs.jpg

If its just those things we'll kick their ass & steal their ships, they cant even get through a rickety, wooden basement door.

[bevischief]

http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii574/KCTattoo58/MV5BMjA3MDk1MzcxN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTYzNDIyMQ_V1_SX362_SY475_1-2-1.jpg

ROFL

[bevischief]

They are already here...

[InChiefsHeaven]

If humans are the smartest beings in the universe it's pretty sad. :)

Which begs the question, how can our dumb asses "discover" them. Should be the other way around...

[Dave Lane]

It would take 30 billion years for eight self replicating robots to search just 4% of the Milky Way.

[mlyonsd]

Give one of them a football and see if he can throw it.

[Saulbadguy]

It would take 30 billion years for eight self replicating robots to search just 4% of the Milky Way.

This is inaccurate.

[Dave Lane]

This is inaccurate.
Sorry unless we develop light speed drives. This is where we are at.

[Fire Me Boy!]

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[loochy]

Give one of them a football and see if he can throw it.

he can throw it over those mountains

aliens will be sitting in a hot tub with their soul mates

[beach tribe]

Reading it now. I laughed at

Never thought of that possibility before.

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[Fish]

The better question would be "What would they do with us?"

Because if they're traveling the galaxy, their technology is exponentially ahead of ours, and there would be very little we could do. Even uploading a computer virus to their mothership via Will Smith probably wouldn't work... They'd look at our nuclear arsenal and say "Ahh that's cute."

Imagine if we finally made a manned trip to Mars, and happened upon a primitive life form there. Do you think we'd be all Mother Hen, and teach them some technology, and maybe build some large stone structures for them? Or would we see them as completely inferior beings and put them in a cage to probe and dissect later and show the fellas back home?

Look at how we view other primates on our own planet. We share 99% of our DNA with other primates. And in the grand evolutionary timeline, we're just very slightly ahead of those other primates in development. Though other primates haven't developed speech, their mental capacity is much higher than we give them credit for, and they're capable of quite a bit of the intelligence and emotion that we're capable of. The gap between us and other primates is smaller than the gap would be between us and space fairing alien civilizations. Let's hope they'd treat us a bit better than we treat the next smartest creatures on our own little planet....

Really, we're a pretty shitty species. Greedy, selfish, arrogant, and very destructive. Aliens would likely view us as such.

[kaplin42]

It would radically alter our belief system, and all hell would break lose.

This.

Most people would FTFO.

[Donger]

we already have, thousands of times.

More like dozens of times, but yeah.

[durtyrute]

More like dozens of times, but yeah.

There is no way that we have ever been visited by aliens. The government would've told us about it.

[DMAC]

I don't see why Christians would freak out...

Jesus was an alien (well, half breed). Angels are aliens.

[keg in kc]

My estimation is that about 10% of the human race is prepared for such an event. The other 90% would freak the **** out. I think it would devastate everything. Religion, philosophy, economy, all down the shitter. The end of life as we know it. And even those of us who think we're ready (I could myself in that group) probably aren't. We are so arrogant and earth-centric in our belief structures as a species, the way we think we know so much about science and the universe (like saying space travel to here is impossible because we don't know how to do it). Finding out just how primitive and...not special we are, for lack of a better word, would be rough.

[Donger]

There is no way that we have ever been visited by aliens. The government would've told us about it.

You are presuming that the government would be involved at all.

[durtyrute]

You are presuming that the government would be involved at all.

You are correct

[Donger]

You are correct

And that might be an incorrect assumption.

[durtyrute]

And that might be an incorrect assumption.

It might be or it might not be, how will one ever know?

[gblowfish]

We'd probably give them blankets laced with Smallpox.

[CosmicPal]

Maybe they'd just have a bit of entrepreneurship in them and offer up some killer space rides for $50 a pop.

[Saulbadguy]

Sorry unless we develop light speed drives. This is where we are at.

Oh, well, we will do that eventually. And more.

[Donger]

It might be or it might not be, how will one ever know?

It will probably never been known.

[durtyrute]

It will probably never been known.

Correct again, Donger

[ChiefRocka]

George Washington was in the cult and the cult was in the aliens man...

[bevischief]

What hell is it was the aliens? This is the 3rd board I have seen this topic come up in less than 24 hours.

[Rasputin]

http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii574/KCTattoo58/th_HometeamKCTat-1.jpg (http://s1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii574/KCTattoo58/?action=view&current=HometeamKCTat-1.jpg)

[saphojunkie]

We'd probably give them blankets laced with Smallpox.

I think this is the prevailing idea. Why should we assume a small group of aliens on a "discovery" mission would treat the natives any better than the Europeans did?

I mean, it's our fault for not being as technologically advanced, right? I can picture the moral argument, if morality exists for them, going something like:

"Sweet planet. Report back to our overlord that we have discovered a perfect vessel for him."
"Uh...what about all these natives?"
"Fuck these people! They're basically animals! Look at all the natural resources they have."
"Yeah, but they were here first."
"So what? Look at all this water they have, and they can't even divide time? They still have to communicate through sight and sound? For god's sake, they only live 80 years! They aren't even worth mentioning."
"yeah...I guess..."
"Come on, man, I'm hungry. Just vaporize them and let's go get some lunch."
"Eh, fuck it. Okay."

zap

[ThaVirus]

My estimation is that about 10% of the human race is prepared for such an event. The other 90% would freak the **** out. I think it would devastate everything. Religion, philosophy, economy, all down the shitter. The end of life as we know it. And even those of us who think we're ready (I could myself in that group) probably aren't. We are so arrogant and earth-centric in our belief structures as a species, the way we think we know so much about science and the universe (like saying space travel to here is impossible because we don't know how to do it). Finding out just how primitive and...not special we are, for lack of a better word, would be rough.

Pretty much this. Humans are a disgusting species. No doubt our governments would treat them as hostiles, even if they came respectfully. We'd no doubt try to get a hold of their technology for weapons production and space travel before delving into medical and power issues.

I'd like it to happen just to see what would go down. Could be interesting.

[Predarat]

I think it might be fun to see if they would let me visit and take a ride on the UFO. That is if I could communicate. But it might be good to let someone else do it first to see what kind of side effects it may have. If all goes well with the first folks Im all in!

[Okie_Apparition]

Religion will be fine
he had other flocks
Just breakout the Jesus sunglasses

http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://theggc.ca/images/Jesus-sunglasses.jpg&imgrefurl=http://thestarlitecafe.com/poems/105/poem_91149670.html&usg=__omhcVuVsLehORBlluF5ZrCVg_Mg=&h=600&w=424&sz=161&hl=en&start=0&sig2=gzZvqSQTjhKfjm9bDndNtg&zoom=1&tbnid=Fv3cKMk9VopUYM:&tbnh=134&tbnw=95&ei=ONYqTd_6ENCwhAfzsp24Dg&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJesus%2Bwearing%2Bsunglasses%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D583%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=212&oei=ONYqTd_6ENCwhAfzsp24Dg&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=53&ty=81

[durtyrute]

What if we were created by aliens?

"Put that in your pipe and smoke it"

[excessive]

Watch the Fourth Kind, that movie will freak you out. It has dash cam footage from a sheriff's patrol car that shows a UFO. It's a true account of one person's experience with what has been happening in Nome, Alaska.

[loochy]

Watch the Fourth Kind, that movie will freak you out. It has dash cam footage from a sheriff's patrol car that shows a UFO. It's a true account of one person's experience with what has been happening in Nome, Alaska.

It won't freak you out all that much.

[Fish]

Watch the Fourth Kind, that movie will freak you out. It has dash cam footage from a sheriff's patrol car that shows a UFO. It's a true account of one person's experience with what has been happening in Nome, Alaska.

True account huh?

Well there we go. Aliens are here guys...

[Okie_Apparition]

I'd be freaked the fuck out if I saw the stealth bomber 25 years or so ago. That may be what set badgirl on her path

[The Franchise]

http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii574/KCTattoo58/th_HometeamKCTat-1.jpg (http://s1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii574/KCTattoo58/?action=view&current=HometeamKCTat-1.jpg)

Quit with all of the Fisty photoshops. You're killing its humor.

[Bump]

Quit with all of the Fisty photoshops. You're killing its humor.

at least quit the really bad ones like that

[saphojunkie]

Watch the Fourth Kind, that movie will freak you out. It has dash cam footage from a sheriff's patrol car that shows a UFO. It's a true account of one person's experience with what has been happening in Nome, Alaska.

HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

[saphojunkie]

Watch the Fourth Kind, that movie will freak you out. It has dash cam footage from a sheriff's patrol car that shows a UFO. It's a true account of one person's experience with what has been happening in Nome, Alaska.

TEH BLAIR WITCH IS FOR REALZ!! I SAW HER AND SHE LOOKED AT ME AND THEN I WAS STANDIN IN THEE CORNER OMG AND TRANSFORMERS WILL TAKE OVER TOO DAMN THIS SHIT JUST GOT REEL AND WHY WONT THE SUPERMAN STOP THEM? CUZ HEZ AND ALIEN TOO