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Will aliens be friendly or hostile?

Will aliens be hostile or friendly

  • Friendly

    Votes: 31 53.4%
  • Hostile

    Votes: 18 31.0%
  • We are alone

    Votes: 9 15.5%

  • Total voters
    58
  • Poll closed .

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Looking at all living creatures on our own planet almost everything alive attacks and kills. (Even many plants somehow developed different defense mechanisms). So it is my belief that the highest probability is that aliens wont be a bit friendly.

Likely not in our lifetime but future generations may see this as a reality.

I would like to hear if it's yes or no or we are alone from you and logical reasons.:)
 
I'll probably be in the minority, but I'll say friendly. Anyone who can travel that far probably has figured out how to coexist peacefully.

That and egoftib keeps up relations by smoking ragweed or some chit.
 
Hostile. I have read about people that have been abducted by them and it does not sound like fun.
 
Scared
The Aliens will completely avoid us, and I cannot blame them..Maybe one out of a thousand will not be a threat, but how can the Aliens know....
 
Call me a pessimist, but in my speculative opinion:

The most likely thing to happen will be that they consider us uninteresting and completely ignore us.​

The second most likely thing is that they will consider us or our planet a natural resource of some kind and will take possession of whatever they need. We will be to them as the members of the animal kingdom are to us.​

The third and least most likely thing will be that they find us interesting after all, will respect our life and become benevolent friends.​
If you consider our attitude toward life forms that are below us in the natural order, and consider our position below aliens in the natural order, my conclusions are compelling. We naturally conclude that the experience of animals in this existence is insignificant compared to our own, and aliens will most likely conclude the same when comparing theirs to ours.
 
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Call me a pessimist, but in my speculative opinion:

The most likely thing to happen will be that they consider us uninteresting and completely ignore us.​

The second most likely thing is that they will consider us or our planet a natural resource of some kind and will take possession of whatever they need. We will be to them as the members of the animal kingdom are to us.​

The third and least most likely thing will be that they find us interesting after all, will respect our life and become benevolent friends.​
If you consider our attitude toward life forms that are below us in the natural order, and consider our position below aliens in the natural order, my conclusions are compelling. We naturally conclude that the experience of animals in this existence is insignificant compared to our own, and aliens will most likely conclude the same when comparing theirs to ours.

If there was ever found a way to comminicate do direct idea transfer I bet a few animals would be fun to talk to even in their primativeness and poeople would start to see all life a little differently.
 
If Aliens are met in Washington DC, by Republicans, they will be hostile and we will face a spaced War.

If Aliens are met in Washington DC, by Democrats, there will be peace, popcorn, hamburger, and Nachos. We will learn to straighten out all terrible problems caused by the eight horrible years of George and Dick.

:2razz: :lol:
 
If Aliens are met in Washington DC, by Republicans, they will be hostile and we will face a spaced War.

If Aliens are met in Washington DC, by Democrats, there will be peace, popcorn, hamburger, and Nachos. We will learn to straighten out all terrible problems caused by the eight horrible years of George and Dick.

:2razz: :lol:

But instead they will go straight to Micheal Jackson. Micheal will try to touch one of them. And you know what happened when the residents of Soddom tried to touch an alien? Oops... I mean angel.
 
Scared
The Aliens will completely avoid us, and I cannot blame them..Maybe one out of a thousand will not be a threat, but how can the Aliens know....

This is probably true. Aliens look at us like we look at backwards 3rd world countries and small southern American towns; as a place to be avoided.

Aliens look at us and go.... Humans? Oh ****... there goes the planet.

:mrgreen:
 
Probably depends on the species. There are probably some alien species that would be hostile toward us, and lots of alien species that would be friendly or wouldn't care about us at all.

On this planet, predators generally seem to be more intelligent than prey...so it's very likely that any intelligent aliens evolved from predators as well. That may or may not play a role in their behavior by the time they achieve the ability to travel into space.

On the other hand, any alien species achieving that capability would have almost certainly learned not to behave violently towards one another...whether that translates into not behaving violently towards other intelligent species is hard to speculate.

Since we have no idea what route evolution would take on other planets, it's almost impossible to speculate as to how they would behave. They could be so different from us that we wouldn't even recognize them as an alien species.
 
Looking at all living creatures on our own planet almost everything alive attacks and kills. (Even many plants somehow developed different defense mechanisms). So it is my belief that the highest probability is that aliens wont be a bit friendly.

Likely not in our lifetime but future generations may see this as a reality.

I would like to hear if it's yes or no or we are alone from you and logical reasons.:)

History tells us that ETs are malevolent and benign, depending on their species and, for lack of better term, political lean. They have waged wars on mankind and each other. Some gave man knowledge to help, others to corrupt.

Recent history over the last several hundred years shows us that whenever a society with significantly advanced technology interferes with a much lesser developed people, the outcome is catastrophe for the lesser people.

It would seem that this is true regardless of what planets the species come from or go to.
 
Probability would disagree with you.
Probability is welcome to. I am confident I'd win though.

Much more so if we limit the definition to minimally intelligent life.

There is a lot of speculation, but no proof.

Leprechauns are far more likely to exist than spacemen.
 
Looking at all living creatures on our own planet almost everything alive attacks and kills. (Even many plants somehow developed different defense mechanisms). So it is my belief that the highest probability is that aliens wont be a bit friendly. Likely not in our lifetime but future generations may see this as a reality. I would like to hear if it's yes or no or we are alone from you and logical reasons.:)
It is extremely doubtful that any aliens with galactic space-travel capability would journey amongst the stars themselves. The most economical and safe method to explore the cosmos would be by using surrogate devices/beings with artificial intelligence. This may even be accomplished on the nano scale. It is also doubtful that we would attract much attention, being a primitive species still reliant on fossil fuels. How much interest do we ourselves invest in the ants at our very feet?
 
Any alien species advanced enough to have conquered intergalactic space travel wouldn't be interested enough in our primitive, war-mongering society to contact us. There are trillions of planets in the universe capable of nurturing intelligent life. We'd be mathematical idiots to deny the odds. However, if they did wish to do so, they would clearly have enough firepower to wipe out our planet as easily as we can wipe out a nest of termites. We overestimate our importance in the grand scheme of things, methinks.

Humans=the arrogance of the inferior.
 
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It is extremely doubtful that any aliens with galactic space-travel capability would journey amongst the stars themselves. The most economical and safe method to explore the cosmos would be by using surrogate devices/beings with artificial intelligence. This may even be accomplished on the nano scale. It is also doubtful that we would attract much attention, being a primitive species still reliant on fossil fuels. How much interest do we ourselves invest in the ants at our very feet?

This is true. Although I don't think it would necessarily be surrogate devices; I think that it's highly likely that after a certain point in technological development, intelligent species simply abandon their biology entirely and become artificial themselves.
 
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This is true. Although I don't think it would necessarily be surrogate devices; I think that it's highly likely that after a certain point in technological development, intelligent species simply abandon their biology entirely and become artificial themselves.

Good point. I wanted to say something similar earlier but couldn't word it. I think after riding technology so far we will realize we are just mimicking life. I think probability rests on we live in a artificial world.

On another note, if we ever get complex enough to copy our entire earth in digital format. Whos to say it hasn't then been done already and that is excatly what we are in. :D If we are given 100% of the choices that exist in a real world then wouldn't we think we where in a real one?
 
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It's worth keeping in mind that if alien intelligence visits this planet, it will have a reason for doing so-- and that its reaction to encountering us will have to do with that reason and with their ethics for dealing with others.

Reverse the question: Ask, if we managed to reach outside our solar system, and a planet that we were interested in showed signs of alien intelligence upon it, how would we react? Were we looking for the lifeforms, or for the planet itself? What do we want?

If you want, you can think about whether or not our answers would be different in a couple hundred years, or a couple thousand.
 
Probability is welcome to. I am confident I'd win though.

Much more so if we limit the definition to minimally intelligent life.

There is a lot of speculation, but no proof.

Leprechauns are far more likely to exist than spacemen.

There are over a sextillion planets in our visible universe alone. The visible universe in comparison to the universe as a whole is roughly the size of a grain of sand compared to the planet Earth. So, as I said before, probability would disagree with you.
 
Probably depends on the species. There are probably some alien species that would be hostile toward us, and lots of alien species that would be friendly or wouldn't care about us at all.

On this planet, predators generally seem to be more intelligent than prey...so it's very likely that any intelligent aliens evolved from predators as well. That may or may not play a role in their behavior by the time they achieve the ability to travel into space.

On the other hand, any alien species achieving that capability would have almost certainly learned not to behave violently towards one another...whether that translates into not behaving violently towards other intelligent species is hard to speculate.

Since we have no idea what route evolution would take on other planets, it's almost impossible to speculate as to how they would behave. They could be so different from us that we wouldn't even recognize them as an alien species.

The thing I disagree with most in your post is that they would necessarily view us as an intelligent species. I believe, at best, that we would seem pet like to them.
 
No one is more hostile than Humans :lol:
 
Hi I'm from planet X Take me to your leader:mrgreen:
 
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