Aliens: What if we're the advanced species?

[Spartan448]

We must obey the Prime Dir... Ya know what? Screw the Prime Directive. The Prime Directive doesn't let you do awesome stuff. (And since when does anyone actually obey it? I think it's probably the stature broken most often by Starfleet personel)

If EVE Online has taught me anything, it's that when you find a new planet, immediately strip it of it's natural resources and orbitally bombard the locals if they give you trouble.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I KNOW!!!
I think about this too.

This gives me flash backs to Spore... so many penis spaceships, so much fucking around.

 

[Sprinal]

well if it were to happen in the next half century then what I say would happen would be rather interesting to watch as the Creationists tried to explain it . Then the Conservatives would say DESTROY!!! whilst Eurocorp would be busily breaking basic human/alien right and getting beaten up by Green peace and Amnesti International... Then there would be much piracy and lovely drinks with Kings for me (as I would be the 1st officer or Captain of the science vessels that went there).

Finally it would be a mess (politics wise)

 

[Singularly Datarific]

One word my friends: Outsourcing.
And you thought Dealing with a Indian tech support was bad.

Anyways, I figure it'll turn out horribly as we colonize the crap out of wherever there isn't *ahem* opposition. Think Native American syndrome, but with an entire planet.

 

[gyroc1]

My gosh we're evil here! It's like we never learn from history judging strictly from these responses! Kill to further the master human race?! I hope some people are just making bad jokes.

What I'd do: Observe and help when they ask for it.
What I want to do: Barder their different tech or resources for ours.
What would happen: *shrug* We open the void for space war?

 

[Thamous]

I'm sensing a big increase in slavery's stock prices.
Also, this video is highly relevant.

Spoiler

 

[Bobbity]

If that's the case, then I'm not going to be around to see it, so I don't care.

 

[Smooth Operator]

We kill them and take their loot, maybe we go a bit soft at the end and take some slaves.
You really can't expect more then our primal nature here because the first people to go there would be either military or business men, both only understand jungle law, kill or be killed.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I've talked about this with friends before, and we always laughed at the idea cause pretty much everyone thinks aliens are smarter than us and it would just be funny to see them wrong.

Anyways, as to what I would do... well, depends on the type of lifeform. I may try to ST:TNG them and run the risk of being called a God, or I may just wish them well and leave so as not to fuck the proverbial pudding.

...

Though speaking for humanity as a whole, and knowing Humanity just through our history, I'd see a Genocide happened rather quickly and draining the planet of all its useable resources. Or people going there and trying to bring them into the way of a/the god/s (take your pick really). And then of course atheism would spread there, and we'd be fucking up another planet and race like we did with ours with pointless squabbling.

 

[Thaluikhain]

A new age of colonialism.

Whether or not they are less "intelligent" than us, or jsut less advanced, they will be proved to be less "intelligent" and thus in need of our direction.

Though, for a totally alien race, "intelligence" is even more vague than usual, they might be well ahead of humans in certain areas, but not the other ones that make it useful...they might be naturally great at simple arithmetic, but crap at application, for example.

 

[HardkorSB]

Let's just say, we manage to figure out how to travel throughout space quickly and find another race of intelligent life-forms (living in houses, pants, the whole sha-bang), only we're the "freaky futuristic aliens from space" and they're the "less advanced aliens".

What do we do then?

Do we leave'em alone? Watch them to see how they advance? World domination?

An oversimplified version of what would probably happen can be seen in "Avatar". Unless we'll develop some renewable fuel or perhaps some type of engine that doesn't require fuel (which I think we will, because otherwise there's not much possibility of leaving this solar system), then we won't really need to drain resources on other planets. Then, we will study them like we study animals, maybe try to "educate" them. Maybe they will have some useful abilities we don't and we're going to use them as cheap work force (kind of like in "Battlefield Earth"

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I would love to integrate with another intelligent race! Even if they are a few hundred years before us it would be really interesting. As for what would likely happen, I wouldn't be surprised is humanity ended up starting another world war among ourselves, the human population split over dominating the new, under-developed species or, helping them to advance in the fields where we surpass them. Of course if an inner-species war were to break out I'd be against it...at least until their space-dragons (or similar fauna) and our Mech-armies (which I would assume we'd have by then) began fighting, which would be pretty sweet to watch.

 

[thespyisdead]

I think Spore demonstrates my current opinion quite well. we are not alone, we are not the most advanced species, but not the most primitive either

 

[Hoplon]

It's called an Outside context problem, civilisations usually encounter them the same way a sentence encounters a full stop.

 

[Da Orky Man]

You seen the movie Avatar? I imagine that is pretty much exactly what would happen (minus the happy ending)

Except that Avatar forgot to take into account things like nukes. The second the Na'vi attack began, they shold have instantly pulled the helicopter things out and fired a neutron bomb from orbit.

 

[AngloDoom]

To be honest, I imagine we'd piss them off way before we learn of them being intelligent.

I can't imagine a human team of investigators being quite happy just surveying the aliens from afar, so the natural thing to do would be to catch them.

You you were looking at the squishy little monster before, all it seemed to be doing was jumping up and down randomly, and very little else. After a long examination, testing it with different stimuli, chemicals, and eventually chopping one up (because there's a lot in supply) we suddenly discover they were an intelligent life who was trying to tell his mates "Jesus- what the hell are those guys?" By then, we've already killed it. The aliens are hostile and mistrusting, so we decide to leave them alone unless there's something to be had in exhibiting them, or there's a natural resource on their planet. In that case, we'd probably wipe them out or enslave them.

Ideally, though, we'd not do any of this. Ideally, we'd make new space-friends and help each other out with problems, and a few dozen/hundred humans are sent to the planet to learn about their culture and teach them of English culture, like a space-TEFL course. Then I would apply the hell out of that job =D

 

[Justanewguy]

This is coming from a discussion between a friend and I.

We both believe in "life on other planets" theory, but what I wonder is, what if we're the advanced beings? Hear me out.

Let's just say, we manage to figure out how to travel throughout space quickly and find another race of intelligent life-forms (living in houses, pants, the whole sha-bang), only we're the "freaky futuristic aliens from space" and they're the "less advanced aliens".

What do we do then?

Do we leave'em alone? Watch them to see how they advance? World domination?

What if they're in a terrible state? Wars, hunger, over-population. Do we help them or do we leave them to their fate?

Personally, I'd leave them alone but leave something to monitor them. I'd love to see how another race would advance.

What do you think/ what would you do?

The Prime Directive. 'Nuff said. Thank you Gene Roddenberry.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

duuuuh.
we rely so much on Sci-Fi for this stuff, we'd have the Federation Directive that says you cant do shit to planets without interplanetary space travel.
y'know.
the first one.
pretty damn important.

 

[krazykidd]

Haha i was thinking this last night . Humans can barely get along with other humans , based on this fact , we would most likely invade them . What i would prefer in the approach they had in star ocean 4 ( the game ) . Basically after interfering with several aloen worlds , and even blowing up an parallele time line earth , they decided to leave them the fuck alone . We don't help the ones with less advanced technology and we don't take help from the ones with better technology .

This is best , but humans are greedy and selfish so we would probably invade the hell out of them , and drink beer out of their skulls .

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Considering humanity's history...
I'd say that planet would be colonized.