What if we Discovered Alien Life

[Lucantis]

I don't underestimate the human race, because my brother always underestimates me. I believe that aliens (as said by my friend) took so long to build the structures on purpose to make it look like humans did it and then took their stuff back to their planet.

*laughs* Wh- *gasps for breath* Why on Earth would they do that? What psycological compulsion would cause them to do that? You're not seriously suggesting that the aliens were TROLLING us?

Well what do you believe? That we invented time travel and built every great structure before more modern man appeared.

[Seperates]

*laughs* Wh- *gasps for breath* Why on Earth would they do that? What psycological compulsion would cause them to do that? You're not seriously suggesting that the aliens were TROLLING us?

Well what do you believe? That we invented time travel and built every great structure before more modern man appeared.

That the ancient civilization that was around at that time built the monuments over a long period of time. Kinda a no-brainer.

[Lucantis]

Well what do you believe? That we invented time travel and built every great structure before more modern man appeared.

That the ancient civilization that was around at that time built the monuments over a long period of time. Kinda a no-brainer.

Well the rocks, blocks, etc. are too heavy. How did they get everything in there current postitions?

[Cameroi]

alien life discovered us a long time ago. it's been laying low and will continue doing so until we grow up enough to be trusted to act civilized.

[Volmachtia]

Either one bloody hell of alot changes, or absolutely nothing at all. I suspect the latter.

alien life discovered us a long time ago. it's been laying low and will continue doing so until we grow up enough to be trusted to act civilized.

Lol wut? What aliens would be stupid enough to think we could be civilized?

[Dumb Ideologies]

Either one bloody hell of alot changes, or absolutely nothing at all. I suspect the latter.

alien life discovered us a long time ago. it's been laying low and will continue doing so until we grow up enough to be trusted to act civilized.

Lol wut? What aliens would be stupid enough to think we could be civilized?

Of course we're civilised, we have iPads!

[Keronians]

That whatever signal we picked up is pretty old.

Signals reaching those aliens would probably be from the '60s.

[Fellrike]

I can accept the possibility of alien life, even intelligent alien life, somewhere out in space. But I have a hard time believing aliens are coming here and visiting us, abducting people, mutilating cattle, leaving crop circles, etc.

[Volmachtia]

That the ancient civilization that was around at that time built the monuments over a long period of time. Kinda a no-brainer.

Well the rocks, blocks, etc. are too heavy. How did they get everything in there current postitions?

Something called thousands of laborers and rolling logs.

[Zathganastan]

That whatever signal we picked up is pretty old.

Signals reaching those aliens would probably be from the '60s.

If by that you mean by either the 1600's or 16 hundred b.c then yes.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Well the rocks, blocks, etc. are too heavy. How did they get everything in there current postitions?

Something called thousands of laborers and rolling logs.

They rolled their logs? I never knew human-dung beetle interbreeding went so far...

[Grenartia]

lets say SETI picks up a signal and its comfirmed to be from an alien race.
What would the impact be on the world?We have the Star-Trek senerio were
a the world is united and hunger, war, money, dieses, are phased out.Or there is the
War of the Worlds idea were they invade and Destroy the planet.

This could be happening soon since the Kepler Space Telesope has found 1200+ exoplanets in The Habitble Zone
and The Allen Telescope array has Been Turned back on by SETI.

Society will change. In some aspects better, in some aspects worse, and most likely both at the same time in some circumstances. Much like how natural disasters bring out the best and worst in people.

[Ethel mermania]

We'd eat them. All of them. Their children... all eaten too.

I am more thinking they would be eating us, Zeno and cashews in a hosin sauce?

[Volmachtia]

Something called thousands of laborers and rolling logs.

They rolled their logs? I never knew human-dung beetle interbreeding went so far...

No, rolling the stone blocks atop logs that they stacked under them and rolled to move them. You know what I mean.

[JuNii]

We'd eat them. All of them. Their children... all eaten too.

and they'll taste like chicken.

[Vazeckta]

A very interesting idea, but I doubt much would happen in that case. If we find them by that means, then I doubt that we would be meeting them any time soon. I'm thinking government cover ups, a lot more whack-job conspiracy theorists. Were they to come to Earth, they would probably see us as inferior savages and attempt to wipe us out.
As for the religious outcome, I am no theologian. But I know that my faith in God will stay strong, if not stronger, as will many others'.

[Fellrike]

If there are spacefaring aliens out there, all I can say is, I hope they keep to themselves, and don't come here and screw with us. Humanity already has enough problems. Even if they're friendly, and want to help us, I still don't want them to come. I think they'd end up doing more harm than good, even inadvertently.
I guess I just keep thinking we'd throw away everything human, our cultures, our ways of living, our religions, our history, and try to ape the newcomers. And all we'd become in the end is an imperfect imitation of something we could never become. I keep thinking of the American Indians after Europeans settled this continent, some of whom abandoned everything that made them what they were, thinking it was inferior, and tried to copy the Europeans. They forgot their own languages, and learned English, began to dress like us, eat our food, drink coffee and whiskey, abjured their own religions and became Christian, and worst of all, the assimilados expressed contempt for traditional Indian ways, and for those who still respected them.
I'm afraid of that happening to us. I don't want humans to become ashamed to be human, and to try to transform themselves into imitation aliens.
What do you think?

[Mosasauria]

Extraterrestrial life sending out signals to the cosmos? Please.
If there are any extraterrestrial forms of life, it is most likely unicellular, or maybe simple multicellular organisms.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Every ounce of my being wants to say "nuke 'em" but realistically, we'd probably fly in, take some samples, shit ourselves, and run.

[Mosasauria]

If there are spacefaring aliens out there, all I can say is, I hope they keep to themselves, and don't come here and screw with us. Humanity already has enough problems. Even if they're friendly, and want to help us, I still don't want them to come. I think they'd end up doing more harm than good, even inadvertently.
I guess I just keep thinking we'd throw away everything human, our cultures, our ways of living, our religions, our history, and try to ape the newcomers. And all we'd become in the end is an imperfect imitation of something we could never become. I keep thinking of the American Indians after Europeans settled this continent, some of whom abandoned everything that made them what they were, thinking it was inferior, and tried to copy the Europeans. They forgot their own languages, and learned English, began to dress like us, eat our food, drink coffee and whiskey, abjured their own religions and became Christian, and worst of all, the assimilados expressed contempt for traditional Indian ways, and for those who still respected them.
I'm afraid of that happening to us. I don't want humans to become ashamed to be human, and to try to transform themselves into imitation aliens.
What do you think?

This is all assuming that extraterrestrials would be sentient and have advanced technology.
That in itself is one of the lengthiest and most outlandish assumptions ever, and your post keeps going farther than that.

[Lucantis]

I know who is an alien. You wanna know who?

[Fellrike]

[This is all assuming that extraterrestrials would be sentient and have advanced technology.
That in itself is one of the lengthiest and most outlandish assumptions ever, and your post keeps going farther than that.[/quote]

No, I didn't say, aliens, if they exist, would most likely be intelligent, and be able to fly throuh space. I said, if spacefaring aliens exist. I'm well aware that intelligent life is probably very rare. In fact, life itself may be very uncommon, or even unique.
But if we got to Mars, or wherever, and found life there, but it was nothing but a microbe, would that really matter to most of us? What if astronauts found something like a mouse on Mars? That would be a little more interesting, for a few days, but even that wouldn't really hold our attention for very long. For the scientsists, it'd be earth shattering. But it wouldn't really change the world for most of us, would it?
Now, a signal from deep space indicates a nonhuman intelligence. And that would be very significant to mankind.

[Lucantis]

You know there is a bacteria that survives on sulfur. If we transport these bacteria to Io (or whatever the heck that volcanic moon is called), then we would create a new civilization.

[Seperates]

That the ancient civilization that was around at that time built the monuments over a long period of time. Kinda a no-brainer.

Well the rocks, blocks, etc. are too heavy. How did they get everything in there current postitions?

Get me a long enough lever and a firm place to stand, and I can move the world.

[Zathganastan]

Well the rocks, blocks, etc. are too heavy. How did they get everything in there current postitions?

Get me a long enough lever and a firm place to stand, and I can move the world.

Don't forget the slave master with the whip and hundreds of other slaves being used as cheap free labor.