Define make contact? You could argue that when the first spaceship touches down and they do whatever they please, harvest raw materials etc.. that would be "making contact". Or if you happen to wake up in a Matrix esq pod thing, well that could also be "making contact".cptjack42 said:
Poll: How will first contact go down?
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We find them, they move on, because we've been playing hide and seek this whole time without knowing it.
Every redneck in the world's going tinfoil hat, that's probably the first thing... then we see if we can establish an understanding of language with each other (if they're not hostile) and we try and figure out their culture, what offends them and all that other stuff before we pursue anymore options.
I think the aliens are already here, have placed an intergalactic quarantine just outside Pluto's orbit and are waiting for our civilization to mature enough to handle first contact.
I think Mass effect has a good general idea on how it could go... but then again, Alien nations scenario is plausible too.
They'll find us or we'll find them. And if human history is any indicator, war will inevitably begin because of culture clash. Or they'll unwittingly introduce a disease that we have no protection against. Or vice versa.
See the "discovery" of the New World.
See the "discovery" of the New World.
The odds of an alien race having a similar culture or language to us are remote in the EXTREME. This isn't Star Trek, where aliens are just people with funny ears. A real "alien" encounter would probably go down something like in the book (not the crapy film) Solaris - in other words, an alien lifeform would be so different, so bizarre to us that we couldn't understand each other. We'd probably just stare at each other and go our separate ways.
If we ever find each other at all - space is so mind-bogglingly big that the odds of intelligent species coming into contact with each other is also remote in the extreme. Although I'm fairly sure intelligent alien life exists elsewhere in the universe, the sheer distance would make contact almost impossible. For all intents and purposes we are alone. There are billions of galaxies, containing billions of stars, and who knows how many planets. Even if faster-than-light travel was possible, finding an intelligent alien species would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack - and the haystack is as big as the SUN. Odds of us coming into contact with alien life? Close to bloody zero. I'd say it would be 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% likely
Not very likely to happen. Life in the universe would be rare - probably 1 in a million planets would have "some" type of life. And maybe 1 in a trillion planets would have an intelligent life of some sort. Given the huge, vast, enormous distances between planets, we're not going to come into contact with each other. It's 4 LIGHT YEARS to the NEAREST star! That's FOUR YEARS travelling AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT! Even if you could go faster than the speed of light, you'd need to go at least a MILLION TIMES faster than the speed of light to get anywhere. And even if you could...... 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of all planets you visit would be DEAD, COLD, ROCKY (or gaseous) BALLS OF NOTHING.
I don't think many people who think about aliens TRULY comprehend how incredibly vast space is. It's just too big. Just way, way, way, way, way too big.
If we ever find each other at all - space is so mind-bogglingly big that the odds of intelligent species coming into contact with each other is also remote in the extreme. Although I'm fairly sure intelligent alien life exists elsewhere in the universe, the sheer distance would make contact almost impossible. For all intents and purposes we are alone. There are billions of galaxies, containing billions of stars, and who knows how many planets. Even if faster-than-light travel was possible, finding an intelligent alien species would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack - and the haystack is as big as the SUN. Odds of us coming into contact with alien life? Close to bloody zero. I'd say it would be 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% likely
Not very likely to happen. Life in the universe would be rare - probably 1 in a million planets would have "some" type of life. And maybe 1 in a trillion planets would have an intelligent life of some sort. Given the huge, vast, enormous distances between planets, we're not going to come into contact with each other. It's 4 LIGHT YEARS to the NEAREST star! That's FOUR YEARS travelling AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT! Even if you could go faster than the speed of light, you'd need to go at least a MILLION TIMES faster than the speed of light to get anywhere. And even if you could...... 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of all planets you visit would be DEAD, COLD, ROCKY (or gaseous) BALLS OF NOTHING.
I don't think many people who think about aliens TRULY comprehend how incredibly vast space is. It's just too big. Just way, way, way, way, way too big.
But the government listens to the media( F.Y.I. Egypt order that all 300,000 of their countries pigs to be slaughtered even though A)it an't spread by pigs and B) swine flu cases in Egypt at time=0Internet Kraken said:
Egypt had to listen to the media. They had no other way of knowing how dangerous the virus actually was.Overlord Moo said:
Governments that actually had access to the proper information didn't do this.
Yeah, that South Park episode about Stans car going warp speed which brings aliens to earth
Yeah that episode depicts the stupidity we will show when we meet aliens....and te consequences
except instead we would all die most likely
Yeah that episode depicts the stupidity we will show when we meet aliens....and te consequences
except instead we would all die most likely