Poll: How will first contact go down?

[Romaru]

They are out there, but they have more sense than to some here.

Reactions of first contact:
Cults spring up to worship them
Suicides go through the roof as people fear enslavement
Militant groups spring up in response to the menace, even if they come in peace.
America's president would act as spokesperson for the world, which in turn would piss China and Russia and everyone else off.
First probable reaction would be to nuke a spaceship before it arrives, and the whole thing be kept secret to prevent the above

Edit: And some asshole would try to sell them the Statue of Liberty

 

[nova18]

First contact will basically go through the following stages:

Paranoia: Both races will be unwilling to fight until they are aware of the oppositions capabilities.

Peace: Aliens and humans decide to co-exist and further their colonisation of the universe, trade routes are established.

Co-colonisation: Eventually, humans and aliens live together on colonized planets.

Alien civil rights: Groups will be established to stop the racism from humans towards aliens, laws will be passed.

Reality TV: The first alien appears on Britains Got Talent/ X Factor USA.

Controversy: A racist term is used against an alien Big Brother contestant. Humans apologise but the damage is done.

Apocalypse: Advances in weaponry cause both sides to completely wipe out the other, resulting in the complete obliteration of both races.

 

[The Antagonist]

Exactly like in Star Trek: First Contact... EXACTLY!!

Borg included?

 

[Time Sync]

We are still deciding whether or not to contact your species. Hopefully it will go quite nicely since we mastered your language sixty of your years ago. *Goes off to his spaceship*

 

[gatorthepinkelephant]

With something like this there really is no way to predict what will happen. The portion of of what we know about the universe is immeasurably small. In essence we truly have no idea what could be out there. We could already have made first contact and not even known it, due to the true nature of any aliens being truly incomprehensible to us. Any aliens that do try and contact us may exist on a totally different plane of existence to us, one that we don't even know about.

Or theres the even worse possibilty. That we as life forms are utterly alone in this universe.
Life may be an anomaly restricted to a insignificant portion of the universe.

Or the may be life closer than we know it.

Imagine though if we were the most advanced life in the universe. Imagine if we were superior. The era we live through may be just the dawn of a time of truly epic proportions. It may take time. A long time, but at the rate we're advancing (Think of where we were even 100 years ago, who knows what could happen in another 100) first contact could come far sooner than we think. I just put faith in our greatest minds to pave a future for us so bright that we can look back on today and think, "Jeez things were different back then, look how far we've come, who would've guessed"

Feel free to dismiss this post, i'm pretty drunk and probably just talking awhole bunch of shit

 

[gatorthepinkelephant]

They will foolishly land in texas, be mistaken for "Them Queerosexuals", and their entire species will be systematically rounded up and hung. seriously though, i just hope that our first aliens are not anything like the following aliens/species
JENOVA-Final Fantasy 7
The Reapers-Mass Effect
The X-Nauts-Paper Mario 2
Furons-Destroy All Humans
Any of the Covenant Species-Halo
The Combine-Half-life
The Koopa Troop-Mario (not technicaly "aliens" per se, but we would still be fucked if we encountered them. demand for plumbers would go up though.)
The Borg-Star Trek
The Zerg-Star Craft
The Shroobs-Mario and luigi partners in time

Sorry for the double post but OMG imagine the possibilities.

We'd be pretty fucked. Also I think that if they make first contact, they would probably be so much more advanced then us and would probably have the technology to kick our asses.

 

[fix-the-spade]

We will meet them, violence will ensue when they are not what we expected. More violence will ensue when they do not wish to be subjugated and exploited by us.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Yes, there will be borg... and Captain Picard... (he'll look exactly like patrick stewart too).