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Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:41 am
by Sionnach Glic
Up until the point that we're nuked into oblivion, yeah.

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 4:02 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
I hope we wouldn't be too stupid and try to attack those with the ultimate high ground.

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:04 am
by Graham Kennedy
I would hope that the last thing governments would do would be try to mistreat alien visitors. No matter how helpless THIS bunch may be, hurting them is sure to piss off the rest of their species to some extent... with the rest of their species probably having a military capacity that ranges somewhere from "better than us" up to "almost as good as god".

I'd think governments would be falling over themselves to be as friendly as possible.

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:01 pm
by Reliant121
I wouldnt be in the least bit surprised if a religion was formed around them.

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 3:20 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Well, if we have people trying to form religions around Avatar, I'd be amazed if these aliens didn't have cults springing up across the world.

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:13 am
by Mark
Reliant121 wrote:I wouldnt be in the least bit surprised if a religion was formed around them.

OH YES....Great point little bro.

I can see twits forming cults and so forth around the "Promised Return" or some nonsense.

Geez.........what would the aliens THINK of us? Some want to kiss there asses, some want to worship them as gods, some wants to be friends, some want to attack, some likely could care less.

How do you think Earth's racists would take that????? :happydevil:

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:10 am
by Lt. Staplic
well here's another scenario:

What if this race isn't super advanced like we've been assuming. What if their only just a step or two up from us, and we're the first planet with life they've discovered outside their own. How do the people of earth respond to religions being formed around us?

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:10 pm
by shran
Or, to make things weirder, the aliens might think that WE are the gods.

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:32 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
shran wrote:Or, to make things weirder, the aliens might think that WE are the gods.
"They have hair! They must be the Chosen People of the Book of Goc!"

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:38 am
by Vic
"All hail Goc!" :bounce: "All hail Goc!" :pope:

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:17 am
by Sionnach Glic
Lt. Staplic wrote:How do the people of earth respond to religions being formed around us?
"Us? Gods? Don't be rediculous. Now stay quiet and let me worship you, oh great feathered ones."

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:29 pm
by thelordharry
Mark wrote:How do you think Earth's racists would take that?????
Hopefully, the aliens would wipe them out first :)

FC though. What if the aliens were simply just like us? Their space faring tech was just a huge rocket to break free of their planet's gravity and a space shuttle type spacecraft with rocket boosters and their ship somehow gets rapidly transported to our solar system by some sort of mad old indescribable event (think 'VOY; One Small Step) and essentially, there's nothing really new we could teach each other. How would just knowing that we weren't alone in the universe affect mankind?

The indescribable event may or may not be able to be repeated, no one knows...

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:26 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Interesting point, Harry. Big letdown for those seeking enlightenment, there.

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 3:17 am
by Mark
Us: "What is the secret of the universe?"

Them: "Dunno. That's what we came here to ask you!"

:picard:

Re: How Would First Contact Really Go?

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:29 pm
by stitch626
You're really liking that facepalm, aren't ya?