Aliens: What if we're the advanced species?

[steve the evil]

A little off-topic, but I've always thought it would be funny if we came to a planet and it turned out we were physiologically superior to them. Like we invade a planet populated by meringue-people who view our normal functions as super-powers, like our spit is acidic and our nails are super sharp. Then WE can be the monsters in an alien invasion movie!

OT: I'd like to think by the time we have the ability to contact sentient life, we've figured out how to stop fighting with everything we see. Probably won't happen (for multiple reasons), but I'd like to think that.

 

[Krois]

Teach it the ways of magic instead of technology! Maybe they'll find something we missed as a civilization.

 

[Plucky]

Depends on what their intelligence is, if they're undeveloped, we shouldn't interfere with their culture or progression since that might upset the balance on their world.

If they are intelligent, we probably should only form diplomatic relations with them only if they come up to us willingly, however we shouldn't make their lives too cushy by introducing too advanced technology, otherwise people either become too dependent on unusual technologies, or it might cause political unjust within their world, possibly causing wars and damage with devices newly created with ideas from our machines.

 

[Zen Toombs]

Then the aliens are not intelligent, intelligent aliens are based on our level or above.

"Advanced" likely refers to technology level. It is possible that could have the most advanced technology but be less intelligent as a species. For example, the other alien species could have had less time than Humanity to create tools and shiny tech.

Well i tell you what we wouldnt do. Randomly fly around trying to be stealthy but failing all the while probing anus's left right and centre. We also wouldnt come along every so often to build a monument between anus inspecting. That would be retarded

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[everythingbeeps]

If we stumble upon an alien species on their own turf, we'll almost certainly fuck everything up and wind up destroying them. I just don't see how we're capable of any better.

Fortunately for them, we're just nowhere near being advanced enough to do that. And as long as you have conservatives in power, the space program won't get nearly enough money to develop the technology to do that.

 

[Cipher1]

Imperialism 2.0 (now with 99% more spaceships) as much as I'd like to think we've come a long way given the option of a whole new world I cant see us passing up the option to exploit the hell out of it for our own gain.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I've always had a belief about us, the human race, being an alien race from another planet because
a.) no other creature on Earth comes close to being EXACTLY like us (i.e. no different species, just races),
b.) all animals rely on pure base instinct, while we rely on our intelligence to get through the day,
c.) we tend to harm the environment by merely settling on it, and
d.) all animals (even the ones that can rip us to shreds) FEAR us, for no apparent reason other than we are not food, thus, we are scary. If all the animals would fight against the humans (ala Rise of the Planet of the Apes-style), the human race in general would be screwed.

There is also a lot of talk about how the humans in the B.C. era had relations or contact with aliens, how they helped humans develop their civilization and structures that would be difficult/impossible to accomplish in that era, even by today's standards. How do we know that we were merely speaking with our 'relations' in order to better inhabit this world?

If we go along this train of thought, essentially the main questions come down to:
1.) What happened in the past that has caused us to break ties with our 'alien brethren?'
2.) Why would the past interactions with these aliens not recorded or mentioned? Was the 'colonized' alien/human race so arrogant that they decided to take all the credit for their accomplishments on Earth and leave their alien help out of the picture?
3.) Are there any attempts to re-establish the lines of communication?
4.) Is there something on Earth that has been long forgotten that is preventing the aliens from coming to/landing on Earth? And what is it?

I could ramble on, but I think this is a good place to stop.

 

[Jon Shannow]

The same thing that happens every time an advanced civilization discovers a primitive one... regardless of intent it never turns out well for the primitive one.

Hopefully someone will inform James Cameron of this for the next Avatar film.