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
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.x-machina said:You seen the movie Avatar? I imagine that is pretty much exactly what would happen (minus the happy ending)
The Prime Directive. 'Nuff said. Thank you Gene Roddenberry.iLazy said: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?
Ha ha. Because genocide of a semi-innocent intelligent race is perfectly fine when done for the sake of an action movie.Nouw said:I'm from the Escapist, and I say kill 'em all!