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originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: Planetarian
Some scientists have warned about the dangers of announcing our prescience for a few years , Stephen Hawking being one.
"One day, we might receive a signal from a planet like this," Hawking said, referring to the potentially habitable alien planet Gliese 832c. "But we should be wary of answering back. Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well,"
www.livescience.com...
These days I tend to agree although we have already announced our position and given details of our species to the Universe so the damage is already done.
originally posted by: TamtammyMacx
I don't think they would come in and destroy everything. Too messy. If they come from light years away, they're going to need some place to stay. They're going to want to keep the infrastructure intact. A few nuclear powerplants melting down would be disasterous. I think they would be more into infiltration and taking over with secret societies and the rest of us would unknowingly be slaves. If there was an Independence day scenerio it would be ETs covertly fighting the ETs that are already here. We would barely know only through sightings. The top humans would know but would not tell the rest of us for fear of their own lives.
originally posted by: midnightstar
These ideas are out in left field ( Humans are near the teck lv needed to make ANY molecular On demand any atom as well .
Why go through the trouble of taking over any planet when you can make any thing you need to order ?
Or every single resource EARTH has other planets Even in our own solar system have . EVERY last ONE even hydrocarbons aka can be used like oil .
Makes No sense what so ever to spend a ton of resources taking over planets with any species that can fight back when there is a whole galaxy of resources for the taken .
20 more years there wont be a single natural thing we cant create from scratch in a lab so aliens who use teck and could be millions or years ahead of us would have little incentive of taking over one little speck of dirt in a universe of Trillions of planets .
Humans get FDL drive and we would not give one wit about taking over planets with even stone age people as by then we have robots advanced enough to go in set up shop on any Barian chunk of rock in the galaxy .
And even as war like as humans are we would hastate to want to try talking over even primitive people .
after all even in modern history MUCH much more primitive people have stopped advanced country's cold from invading