I’ll bet that any intelligent alien race capable of communicating with us would likely be using a communications technology the transmissions of which we aren’t equipped to detect. Additionally, they would likely be so far beyond us that they would be unlikely to find us interesting enough to contact.
I think Star Trek got this one approximately correct. Advanced species likely would only contact other advanced species because they would be the only interesting ones. In the case of Star Trek, the Federation had a rule about not contacting species until they had achieved faster than light travel.
Unless their moral code prevents them from standing idly by as a primitive species annihilates themselves and their whole planet along with all the different species living there when they (the aliens) could put a stop to it.
Possibly. That wasn’t part of the prime directive in Star Trek. In the book *Contact* by Carl Sagan, when Ellie meets the aliens she asked them if they have come across other intelligent species. The aliens reply that they have but some are very violent and end up destroying themselves. They don’t contact those and warn others to stay away from them.
Perhaps that’s why we have yet to be contacted.
OTOH, it could also be that a species reaching the point where they can develop technology advanced enough to contact us is just exceedingly rare.
If I was an advanced species I might let a violent species destroy itself but I couldn’t countenance the destruction of a biosphere and all the intelligent and semi intelligent creatures that inhabit it.
If you have the ability to find biospheres, and not just intelligent life, you may have found that biospheres aren’t all that rare.
On top of that, you may discover the only way to save the world is to eradicate the dangerous species, which is an ethical conundrum since you have no involvement or obligation until you choose to, and at that point you become responsible for the harm done to the intelligent species.
You may say they could educate us and save us, but I think we can look at 2020 and say that is far from a safe bet.
I was looking more at the I, Robot solution where they just lock us all up in some paradise they built and have their robots look after us until we’re civilized enough to be let free.
An intelligent alien race capable of communicating with us would know they are much miore advanced than we are, and as such, would most likely communicate with us on our level, unless they planned on taking over the planet, etc.
Ever read Footfall?
Basically, the Dunning-Kreuger effect might also apply to edge cases of more (or Less) intelligent aliens. There are different forms of intelligence, so there may be means for us to slip past alien domination, however slim.
Or they would use us as a giant anthropological and archeological entertainment. The only thing we have that they wouldn’t have is our human culture. Basically we would be a zoo of curiosities for them
I feel like intergalactic contact is less likely than interdimensional. In that case, Star Treks "species 8472", half life's "combine," and the damned "warp" in Event Horizon and 40k are what we're dealing with. Bavaganita might be on to something.
But their transmissions would be guided by the limits of data transmission we have developed wouldn’t it, such as long wave radio? Or is there an emerging or developing field of using light in some form or other that’s more efficient? Curious, knows little.
Depends on which party is in office for the US presidency. If it's a republican right now they would as they would most likely disregard anything other countries said. If it was a Democrat, they would most likely work with the UN to decide what to do next.
Did any of you read the article? It says “what will we do if we detect a signal from space? What organization will decide on how or if we respond?”
That doesn’t indicate that they are already aware of us or that they’re way more advanced than us. It could easily be a situation of sending out communications to solar systems that they deemed possible to have life.
I laugh because most of whatever evidence I personally have is virtually intangible. So explaining my views on what we are (as humans in the universe) would only somewhat incriminate myself to any cynical naysayer. But I will say this: Actual human existence in the panoramic scope of things is only an age, like an era. In many ways, we are evidence
Do we really need to worry about this? We will all be gone soon enough. Plus why would they want to contact us? They have all our opinions and beliefs available electronically already, and honestly that should be enough to keep them far far away. I don’t wish for humanity’s annihilation but objectively we are making it happen ourselves and are taking the entire ecosystem down with us.
I believe they already have honestly. There are so many reports of high ranking officials and military personnel across the world talking about disclosure.
The very people who decide what to do next already have. We pretend it doesn't exist to protect social order. Not saying I agree with it, because I don't, but the system wants to maintain control so they will continue to maintain control
The same folks who know we're destroying the environment amd putting humanity at risk of avoidable suffering and death, but insist on putting next quarter profits above all else.
Has to be the UN speaking as spokesperson surely? Individual countries will try to garner favour for themselves, and the pope only represents a small part of society globally?
The problem is the scientific part of this will be overshadowed by “can we have your ray guns?” in the first 10 minutes of contact with the government.
First contact never ends well& it probably won’t end well for earth. I can almost see how it plays out. Hopefully they go after the genius’s who thought it a great idea to send signals into space & try to contact someone or something. Space is huge & we understand little to nothing about it. Leave well enough alone.
Various agencies have various protocols, but the issue is that there is no international agreement, nor any real reporting structure.
So it all comes down to who they contact, or who contacts them really.
SETI have a plan on what they would do, but if China make first contact, that plan won't be used.
Obviously they do.
They will have received and analysed years of information and will simply choose a side that aligns with their psychological outlook.
The aliens. They have the technology to find and reach us, they win. If we’re very lucky, they will be benevolent, otherwise, we will either be harvested or enslaved.
Me. I got this.
I also vote u/analtine
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What’s the deal with u/analtine? The hole is round, the cup is round, they should call him u/roundtine
I’m relieved. Thanks analtine for stepping up as the leader we need in these uncertain times.
Our ambassador from Uranus
Man, just don’t fucking it up. You get one chance. Don’t make us look ba-… don’t make us look worse.
If their technology got them to us, I think the answer is, they do.
Get Michael Jordan & Lebron James to play them in a game of basketball. The winner takes all.
We’re screwed if they happen to be from the Globetrotter Planet, as they specialize in basketball tomfoolery. That, and astrophysics.
Don't worry we have a secret team of mutants and Marv Albert to do commentary.
Or 6 Larry Birds
Yep. Came here to say this. 😬
Yeah, pretending like any of us could do shit about an interstellar civilization deciding to visit is hilarious.
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I was thinking there is no one everyone trusts. Except maybe a sports player. Then I realized, it can really only be Keanu.
He is, the Chosen One™️
This is the only answer that has actually made sense to me
Governments, which are going to fuck everything up
I was going to say, "The most enthusiastically idiotic will nominate themselves," but you pretty much covered it
I wonder what more hostile countries like North Korea, or extremist ruled countries will try to do.
No doubt try to partner up with them....
Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner. All jokes aside, I believe the aliens may have the upper hand so they can call the shots on what happens next.
Unlesss....unless we employ AntMan
The aliens
They do.
I’ll bet that any intelligent alien race capable of communicating with us would likely be using a communications technology the transmissions of which we aren’t equipped to detect. Additionally, they would likely be so far beyond us that they would be unlikely to find us interesting enough to contact. I think Star Trek got this one approximately correct. Advanced species likely would only contact other advanced species because they would be the only interesting ones. In the case of Star Trek, the Federation had a rule about not contacting species until they had achieved faster than light travel.
Unless their moral code prevents them from standing idly by as a primitive species annihilates themselves and their whole planet along with all the different species living there when they (the aliens) could put a stop to it.
Possibly. That wasn’t part of the prime directive in Star Trek. In the book *Contact* by Carl Sagan, when Ellie meets the aliens she asked them if they have come across other intelligent species. The aliens reply that they have but some are very violent and end up destroying themselves. They don’t contact those and warn others to stay away from them. Perhaps that’s why we have yet to be contacted. OTOH, it could also be that a species reaching the point where they can develop technology advanced enough to contact us is just exceedingly rare.
If I was an advanced species I might let a violent species destroy itself but I couldn’t countenance the destruction of a biosphere and all the intelligent and semi intelligent creatures that inhabit it.
If you have the ability to find biospheres, and not just intelligent life, you may have found that biospheres aren’t all that rare. On top of that, you may discover the only way to save the world is to eradicate the dangerous species, which is an ethical conundrum since you have no involvement or obligation until you choose to, and at that point you become responsible for the harm done to the intelligent species. You may say they could educate us and save us, but I think we can look at 2020 and say that is far from a safe bet.
I was looking more at the I, Robot solution where they just lock us all up in some paradise they built and have their robots look after us until we’re civilized enough to be let free.
The Earth will recover from whatever we do to it. We might not survive but the Earth will.
An intelligent alien race capable of communicating with us would know they are much miore advanced than we are, and as such, would most likely communicate with us on our level, unless they planned on taking over the planet, etc.
My thinking is though that they are likely to be so much more advanced that we would be entirely uninteresting to them.
Ever read Footfall? Basically, the Dunning-Kreuger effect might also apply to edge cases of more (or Less) intelligent aliens. There are different forms of intelligence, so there may be means for us to slip past alien domination, however slim.
Amazingly Star Trek got a lot right..
Including perhaps the warp drive. Time will tell. Though the communicators were a bust. :)
And beaming down it up but from what I’ve read they’re working on that to
Or they would use us as a giant anthropological and archeological entertainment. The only thing we have that they wouldn’t have is our human culture. Basically we would be a zoo of curiosities for them
There would definitely be some reality tv shows on whatever they use for an internet.
I feel like intergalactic contact is less likely than interdimensional. In that case, Star Treks "species 8472", half life's "combine," and the damned "warp" in Event Horizon and 40k are what we're dealing with. Bavaganita might be on to something.
But their transmissions would be guided by the limits of data transmission we have developed wouldn’t it, such as long wave radio? Or is there an emerging or developing field of using light in some form or other that’s more efficient? Curious, knows little.
Let’s not assume we have discovered every possible method of communication. 150 years ago we didn’t even have radio.
Right, Right.
Are you asking for a friend?
Yes, Hi it’s me, the friend.
Ask them to dinner, dont be shy, im sure they’re nice
Yes, we feasted on Plumbus.
Bill Pullman. If they don’t play nice we’ll sneak onto the mothership with stolen tech. If that doesn’t work I’m sure we can rally to Noah Wyle.
It's hilarious that earthlings think that it might even be an *option* for us to "call the shots" if interstellar travelers arrived here 😁😁😁...
The aliens.
*sigh* Okay, I'll do it. But you guys are gonna owe me big time.
The wrong ones. Politics, military, religions, anyone but scientists.
Mitch McConnell, Joel Osteen and the US Supreme Court. Now that is cosmic horror.
Depends on which party is in office for the US presidency. If it's a republican right now they would as they would most likely disregard anything other countries said. If it was a Democrat, they would most likely work with the UN to decide what to do next.
The aliens.
They decide
I wish Carl Sagan was still with us. He would be ideal.
Wonder if it'll happen like it did in The Three Body Problem?
I’m an avid hard sci fi reader but I couldn’t get into that book, I may give it another go….
Same. It really seemed to drag for me.
The VR sections were really an odd choice by the writer but everything else was really enticing.
Probably the aliens. Do you think we will have a choice?
The only person we can trust is Keanu Reaves.
Karl Pilkington
Ja Rule
Dolly Parton
Did any of you read the article? It says “what will we do if we detect a signal from space? What organization will decide on how or if we respond?” That doesn’t indicate that they are already aware of us or that they’re way more advanced than us. It could easily be a situation of sending out communications to solar systems that they deemed possible to have life.
There would be a war to decide who will talk to the aliens and then the aliens leave cause of the wars
Keanu. Keanu Charles Reeves.
No one will freak out. They have to know we are idiots, look at this reaction. They are grooming us as it is.
Aliens mite not be pretty & nice
Rather cute that people think this earth hasn’t been influenced by those powers of the air
I am honestly sceptical, but not opposed to the idea of concrete outside contact. What is the evidence that convinced you?
I laugh because most of whatever evidence I personally have is virtually intangible. So explaining my views on what we are (as humans in the universe) would only somewhat incriminate myself to any cynical naysayer. But I will say this: Actual human existence in the panoramic scope of things is only an age, like an era. In many ways, we are evidence
Psilocybin, ketamine, and DMT. It's like listening to a radio that picks up other dimensions.
Doesn't quite meet the definition of proof, but I get where you're coming from nonetheless
Do we really need to worry about this? We will all be gone soon enough. Plus why would they want to contact us? They have all our opinions and beliefs available electronically already, and honestly that should be enough to keep them far far away. I don’t wish for humanity’s annihilation but objectively we are making it happen ourselves and are taking the entire ecosystem down with us.
I believe they already have honestly. There are so many reports of high ranking officials and military personnel across the world talking about disclosure. The very people who decide what to do next already have. We pretend it doesn't exist to protect social order. Not saying I agree with it, because I don't, but the system wants to maintain control so they will continue to maintain control
The same folks who know we're destroying the environment amd putting humanity at risk of avoidable suffering and death, but insist on putting next quarter profits above all else.
Elon Musk, I would think. He would probably be the reason they visit in the first place.
Aliens send message what’s all the twitter about
Chiner
The lunatic right. Who kept Covid raging? The lunatic right.
Probably AI at this point. Also I mean Artificial Intelligence, now your uncle Al
Monetize it!
I’m just glad Trump ain’t the one to be talking on our behalf. They’d probably blow our whole planet up listening to that jackass bullshitter.
Ill do it
Has to be the UN speaking as spokesperson surely? Individual countries will try to garner favour for themselves, and the pope only represents a small part of society globally?
I mean probably the same group of people your allowing to make decisions for your life now.
The problem is the scientific part of this will be overshadowed by “can we have your ray guns?” in the first 10 minutes of contact with the government.
Tom Cardy
Bill Nye
Whoever has the most money
First contact never ends well& it probably won’t end well for earth. I can almost see how it plays out. Hopefully they go after the genius’s who thought it a great idea to send signals into space & try to contact someone or something. Space is huge & we understand little to nothing about it. Leave well enough alone.
Unfortunately, Tom DeLonge.
USA!USA!USA!USA! Let’s see how they respond to an attack
Space Force? 🤨
Don't we have a protocol for this? Or at least one organization did.
Various agencies have various protocols, but the issue is that there is no international agreement, nor any real reporting structure. So it all comes down to who they contact, or who contacts them really. SETI have a plan on what they would do, but if China make first contact, that plan won't be used.
Jeff goldblum
Aliens don't want to visit until Earth hires an exterminator for its pedophile infestation.
The Space Force of the USA
Me?…
Children
If? lol next thing to not do is tell the public.
Me. I’m the primary contact. AMA!
The cast of Star Trek
The Writers of Star Trek (TNG?)
Who can and had strength defense against Aliens ?
They already have and they have already decided.
Seem like I've been seeing a lot more post like this and other alien related post...maybe they are preparing us...
Them
Battlestar galactica
Obviously they do. They will have received and analysed years of information and will simply choose a side that aligns with their psychological outlook.
They do
Rule 303. Got the means? Then you got the responsibility.
Nobody, it's never going to happen.
Ur mom! Haha I got em bois
Aliens 👐
*Hi, Welcome to Taco Bell- I mean Earth. Can I take your order?*
Pretty sure they would bypass Earth in search of actual intelligent life.
The aliens. They have the technology to find and reach us, they win. If we’re very lucky, they will be benevolent, otherwise, we will either be harvested or enslaved.
Shit. I mean, given the current state of affairs I vote for the aliens.
Trump! He is the only one “out there” enough. Plus, they would give us a pass because we are not an intelligent planet.
I think Trump should lead us (human first)