When will we humans make our first Alien interaction?

[SimuLord]

I suspect the answer to this query is "never". Besides the fact that faster-than-light travel is by all reasonable means an impossibility (everything we know about the speed of light and everything that's even been so much as conjectured about it suggests it is the upper limit of speed for everything in the universe), there's also a matter of "will a tiny little speck in the universe somehow collide paths with the destiny of another tiny little speck in the universe", a prospect akin to two grains of sand at opposite ends of a beach coming into contact with one another in less than a millisecond of any given time frame (scale this up for a cosmic equivalent)...

Simply put, as much as the probability that there is other life in the universe approaches certainty, this does not naturally imply in any way that the other life will meet ours. I would put the chances of that as what my statistics teacher calls "zero plus"; the state of probability that most people call "close enough to zero that let's just say zero."

 

[Signa]

December 2012 'cause the Mayans were just counting down their return with their "doomsday" calendar. Roswell was just them checking up on us and Bob the alien screwed up the ship and they crashed.

Ah, making conspiracies is fun.

 

[Erisnas]

27 years time, when an alien hatches on a commercial towwing spaceship.

Spoiler: And they'll look like this

This.

and who says we already havent? area 51 anyone? conspiracies are fun.

I say we create an army of Escapists to infiltrate Area 51 and discover that it actually contains zombies[/quote]

That is ridiculous, it must contain alien zombies...
from the FUTURE.

 

[Supreme Unleaded]

Its acually possible that we already have made contact with them (this isnt a conpiracy)

We have a bunch of satelites transmitting signals into space, and a bunch of satelites ready to pick up any return signal.

But the thing is, it takes years on end for that signal to travel whatever distance, and years on end (theoreticaly) for an alien lifeform to get its signal back to us. So just today an alien could have picked up our signal and sent one back to us, we just wont get it untill a few years from now.

 

[Robert632]

when we find that they in fact are the cause of all wars and fucked up-tivity of humans. then we welcome them as fellow warlike brethern. and then we go to war.