Would an alien threat unite the planet?

Ahoy thar,


99 percent of me does not believe there's been alien/human contact as there's no solid proof (I would class solid proof as us having possession of alien d.n.a/alien materials e.t.c), I leave the remaining 1 percent for the possibility of it having happened. Even the most hardened of sceptics should believe in at least the possibility of e.t contact/visits.


So with that out of the way, let's say hypothetically that one day aliens made their presence known to us in a way that would convert every sceptic to a believer instantly, but let's say that we also found out that they meant us immense danger, that we knew that one day they would come to wipe us out. My question is do you think this threat would unite the planet and bring peace between humans as a world effort would probably be the only way to deflect attacks? Or would the world turn even more chaotic than it already is?

Yes it would. Ronald Regan famously posed the very same question when addressing the UN. Even int the cold war days there was apparently willingness on the part of Russia to unite to fight any ET threat. What the world needs right now is for ET to say hello. But i sincerely hope it won't be hello and then we gonna kill you all Muhahahaha!! Actually i think if they were going to do that it would have already have happened by now.

It really depends on how you define "Threat" and who that "Threat" applies to.

I personally believe that contact has been made.

I believe that knowlewdge of such an event and it's subsequent reprocussions have been kept from the public.

Would a "Threat" unite mankind ? Not in a million years.

The majority of religions on this planet do not have the flexibility to accept the paradigm of other truths. From that prospective alone I do not see Arabs and Jews, Muslims and Christians et al, putting aside their differances and facing a common enemy. They will never agree on who the enemy is.

Harsh, simplistic and damned likely correct response is yes. We would all be united in the grave.
Assumptions based on the thread topic are...........
> an extra-terrestrial life form makes it's presence known
> the threat is planetwide and potentially impacts all mankind

A lifeform hidden from all our vaunted sciences and billions of research monies has accomplished the reverse by finding US.
This lifeform has successfully navigated mathematically endless space to arrive.
It's actions upon arrival are determined by our finest minds and purest national leaders, ever mindful of our vast non-conventional weaponry stockpiles, to be nevertheless hostile.

The DNA deck is stacked against us. Natural selection moves on.

Afcourse it will!no matter what wars we do in the face of a common threat that will kill uss ALL....all nations will unite atlest for the time against the comin enemy

no doubt in my mind we would all be united! Their wouldnt be anything to fight about anymore if the very existance of earth was in question! But on the other hand alot of people seem to think that everything is a conspiracy, so maybee their would be a few stragglers that would cry wolf, untill they were bieng blasted with a plasma ray gun!!??

Didn't I see this in "Independence Day"?

Originally posted by Seeker PI
The majority of religions on this planet do not have the flexibility to accept the paradigm of other truths. From that prospective alone I do not see Arabs and Jews, Muslims and Christians et al, putting aside their differances and facing a common enemy. They will never agree on who the enemy is.

Agreed. Humans can't unite against anything. We can't even unite now to save the planet from being poisoned.

A conventional view of war would go something like this:

Military radar detects the alien spacecraft approaching Earth, and the various world intelligence agencies deem the aliens to be a threat. The world's military powers form an alliance to go to war against them. At that time the public would be alerted to the threat in the same manner that they are given a tornado warning.

I don't think the above scenario is likely.

If aliens wanted to wipe us out, I doubt they would use military force as we know it.

I would believe that aliens wiping us out would be a covert operation done jointly with the shadow government or NWO.

If that is the case most people aren't going to see it coming.

Would an alien threat unite the planet?
No.
And why not? Because one only needs to look at a devastating threat to our world's population that's already in our mist, the bird flu virus, to see how various countries around the world are collaborating with WHO to prevent a world-wide pandemic.

Indonesia which has had the most bird flu fatalities (61 out of 81 cases) in the world so far, had only just recently resumed supplying WHO with their bird flu viruses (WHO tracks those mutations of this virus) because they were concerned that those new vaccines produced by commercial drug companies would not be available to developing countries, such as their own.

So because they didn't think that's FAIR (and of course it's not), they chose to withhold all samples of their virus outbreak until they were reassured by WHO that they too would have access to these new updated vaccines -- but many weeks went by until those reassurances and agreements were finally agreed upon.

So here we have a case of one country with-holding valuable potentially life saving virus samples from the rest of the world until they got what they wanted from WHO. And here we also have an international agency that should not have allowed this to happen in the first place! Indonesia obviously had legitimate suspicions that they would not have access to those new vaccines or else they would not have stopped supplying WHO with their samples!

I'm just saying that it's incidents like this that prevent nations from all around the world from collaborating jointly to prevent a world wide threat of any kind. So for this reason, I seriously doubt that the world would unite in a truly productive and effective manner against a hostile alien takeover; if that were to ever occur. Because we would royally botch it up BIG TIME even if we all agreed to cooperate and unite against this enemy -- in other words, it would be another Tower of Babel. We would all end up squabbling because of perceived slights and misunderstandings where no real united front against such an enemy would ever get off and running to defeat the enemy. I think this is obvious.

I think it would not unite us all. Being alone on this planet within our sector of planets sol should be enuf to unite us all and advance to save ourselves from ourselves Cant belive we all rely on this paper with a number on it lol, gawd human needs to learn to break away from this currency of evil.

I agree, Palasheea, so let's say the only way to defend the whole planet as a whole meant every nation on earth having to share all it's top secrets (tech/weapons/research) with every other nation, I'd bet that that would cause all sorts of childish bickering between governments even in the face global annihilation. I think governments would be too scared to do it in case the threat was dissolved and things here got back to how they were beforehand (strife) only this time all enemies would have equal warefare technology. They'd (gov) rather choose certain doom than unite, I'm sure of it. Would us people stand for that though? Surely if mankind was faced with a theat of that magnitude we would rally in our millions forcing the gov to share their knowledge in a matter of days? Would there be no hope of that happening?


(In case anyone has the wrong idea about this topic it's about how much faith we have in mankind (each other) and what it would actually take to unite us wholly)

Not only would an alien invasion not unite the human race; there are those in power that would use the invasion to take advantage of the situation and subjugate even more humans to their evil plan as some would grovel and bow down to the aliens out of fear and cowardice.

Don't give humans any credit for thinking rationally. Just look at how were acting now.