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Comment on: What would happen if we discovered an alien civilization?

Bigthink — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:57:30 +0100

A civilization and is advanced enough mentally and technilogically will not be dangerous. Intelligence brings less drastic measures. War is for those that run out of ideas.

Whatever race we come across that can reach us but we can't reach them will be far superior mentally. Intelligence brings peace.

Comment on: What would happen if we discovered an alien civilization?

Bigthink — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:31:53 +0100

Unfortunately, I have to say that given our own history, war would be inevitable. In a way, we have already discovered alien life-forms. Think about the exploration of our own world... the current America's is a perfect example.

The Eastern world ran into a culture of people very unlike themselves while exploring Earth... The Native Americans. What happened? War.

Maybe there was a feeling of superiority over the Native Americans. Combined with greed of new lands and new riches, it was only a matter of time until war would break out.

The real answer hangs on this question... If we discovered an alien civilization, and were inferior to their race, would they go to war with us?

Comment on: What would happen if we discovered an alien civilization?

Bigthink — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:05:02 +0100

My Ray-Gun is bigger than yours Cosmos!

I think it would be exciting and scarey and you just need to look at human history to guess how we might behave under those circumstances.

Comment on: What would happen if we discovered an alien civilization?

Bigthink — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:48:38 +0100

Rezz -- Can't agree with your last comment. My money is on Mother-Nature every time [g].

Comment on: What would happen if we discovered an alien civilization?

Bigthink — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:12:47 +0100

There once was a great book I read, I have searched for years to find it again with no luck. The title was "Behold the Red Planet" The story was phenomonal, Basically we originated on Mars, But as such an advanced civialtion we destroyed our planet and needed to find somewhere else, Enter Earth. We brought with us the technologies from Mars which allowed us to create the great Pyramids, and the others, but lacking the resources we had on Mars, we reverted back to living in caves and losing all our knowledge. But once again we are grow advanced, and once again paying the price. We are killing this planet with our Cancerous tendencies, but this time we have no other planet to flee to. Mother nature is trying to fight back, to save herself, but I feel that in the end we both will lose this war.

Comment on: What would happen if we discovered an alien civilization?

Bigthink — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:07:43 +0100

I can only imagine that they would reach for the ray-guns and quickly try to revise their religious-beliefs.

Perhaps the subtlety here is, "Did we discover them, or did they discover us?".