Poll: How will first contact go down?

[TheHorizon]

First contact with aliens that is.

If you've played Mass Effect, I'm sure you've all at least thought about this. While I doubt it will happen in my life time, or even ever, it is still fun to think of how it will happen.
Please share your point of view, and why.


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I think that they'll find us, probably on accident, much like in Mass Effect, and there will be a (relativley) short war while the confusion sets in, but with eventual peace.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I think they will find us first, and there will be mutual understanding.

 

[sky14kemea]

they'll find us and try and make contact, and whoever they talk to first will either say something stupid or make a joke that they dont find funny...

and thats how they make us their slaves =D

 

[ae86gamer]

They'll find us. Then they'll be some hostility, maybe one or two wars, then we get along (for the most part), interbreeding takes place and...then something happens and we become their slaves.

 

[Deacon Cole]

It already happened. We slaughtered all the earthlings.

 

[ShockValue]

There shall be an awesome intergalactic war.

 

[sky14kemea]

They'll find us. Then they'll be some hostility, maybe one or two wars, then we get along (for the most part), interbreeding takes place and...then something happens and we become their slaves.

yeah, somewhere down the line someone will probably make a "too soon" joke about the wars ~_~

 

[wordsmith]

probably with the phrase "we mean you no harm", whilst the marksmen in the trees make sure that their sniper rifles are loaded.

 

[Lord George]

We will be confused as hell by the 10 foot tall square blobs of greenyyeelow which communicate through smeeling each other syva receivers. They will not be confused as they do not have a concept of confusion. They do however have a concept of Ythre and will feel that horizontally.

But my point is Aliens will be nothing like anything in our planet or even our galaxy, having evolved who knows how and where. It'll be a miracle if we can even communicate let alone wage war.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

Depends on if they can live on our planet or want any resources from it. Habitable space and resources are usually what wars are fought over, so if they want either from us things will probably get nasty.

 

[GodsOneMistake]

It will be apeshit and funny as hell

 

[Chiefmon]

Two words:Anal Probe

 

[Madshaw]

theyalready have, and we are all already their slaves...

 

[Mullahgrrl]

theyalready have, and we are all already their slaves...

I concur.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

i think they'd find us, however i think we wouldn't give them the warmest of welcomes, especially depending on where they landed

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

I think they'll find us, suicide rate will go up tenfold, and then Eradication will ensue with the eventual enslavement of our race.

 

[Grayjack]

They will find us, then they will say "We come in peace." But, The government would pull the war reflex, and we will have a giant epic war.

 

[Lios]

They would find us, realize we have some minerals and resources that are common on our world, but rare on theirs, and ask for a trade agreement while introducing themselves. No peace, no war, just introduction and mutual agreements. It could lead either way at that point. Eventually they would trade technology, and relationships could either decrease or increase, and with luck we'd have two sentient species living on one world.

Would also lead to some political chaos as to what to do about this (which is highly likely to finally cause global unity).

 

[CuddlyCombine]

They will find us, then they will say "We come in peace." But, The government would pull the war reflex, and we will have a giant epic war.

Who is "the government"? Did Majestic 12 take over when I wasn't looking?

I don't think we'll come into contact with a war-faring species; I don't think any extraterrestrial life developing in similar conditions would survive to develop interstellar travel without maintaining peace amongst themselves. It'd only seem logical to extend this peace to outsiders. As for who'll get found first, probably us, given that we're running out of conventional oil and usable next-generation propulsion systems are still 50-60 years in the future (unless we make a breakthrough).

 

[Internet Kraken]

They find us. Eventually the initial confusion ends and we enter and age of peace.

I don't get why anyone thinks we will go to war with them. I think our government understands that if a species is capable of traveling through space to reach us, they are capable of easily eradicating us.