What Would You Ask an Alien if You Had Only 1 Question

Myself = Whats Out There Are U Gods?


Isnt that 2 questions? LOL

I doubt they would understand english. Show I might just give a smile and extend my hand out to them.

Where's the garlic bread? Go back and get the soddin garlic bread - minimal tip for you.

Originally posted by SoFunkyMe
What Would U Ask A Alian If U Had Only 1 Question?
[edit on 23-10-2007 by DontTreadOnMe]

That's an easy one... "How do I get these folks (aliens? time travellers?) that are chasing me around to leave me alone?"

Which do you prefer, white meat or dark meat?

my question would be.

Do you know what a blumpkin is?

Whats happens when the whole world farts at once?

Originally posted by Sunsetspawn
Can I get my picture taken with you?

It'll be way better than my pic with Kevin Smith

no!that pic > than all

i'd ask what does fL = ?

The Drake Equation was developed by Frank Drake in 1961 as a way to focus on the factors which determine how many intelligent, communicating civilizations there are in our galaxy. The Drake Equation is:
N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL

The equation can really be looked at as a number of questions:

N* represents the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

Question: How many stars are in the Milky Way Galaxy?
Answer: Current estimates are 100 billion.

fp is the fraction of stars that have planets around them

Question: What percentage of stars have planetary systems?
Answer: Current estimates range from 20% to 50%.

ne is the number of planets per star that are capable of sustaining life

Question: For each star that does have a planetary system, how many planets are capable of sustaining life?
Answer: Current estimates range from 1 to 5.

fl is the fraction of planets in ne where life evolves

Question: On what percentage of the planets that are capable of sustaining life does life actually evolve?
Answer: Current estimates range from 100% (where life can evolve it will) down to close to 0%.

fi is the fraction of fl where intelligent life evolves

Question: On the planets where life does evolve, what percentage evolves intelligent life?
Answer: Estimates range from 100% (intelligence is such a survival advantage that it will certainly evolve) down to near 0%.

fc is the fraction of fi that communicate

Question: What percentage of intelligent races have the means and the desire to communicate?
Answer: 10% to 20%

fL is fraction of the planet's life during which the communicating civilizations live

Question: For each civilization that does communicate, for what fraction of the planet's life does the civilization survive?
Answer: This is the toughest of the questions. If we take Earth as an example, the expected lifetime of our Sun and the Earth is roughly 10 billion years. So far we've been communicating with radio waves for less than 100 years. How long will our civilization survive? Will we destroy ourselves in a few years like some predict or will we overcome our problems and survive for millennia? If we were destroyed tomorrow the answer to this question would be 1/100,000,000th. If we survive for 10,000 years the answer will be 1/1,000,000th.

When all of these variables are multiplied together when come up with:

N, the number of communicating civilizations in the galaxy.

OK ... I agree this thread shouldn't be in this section but for the sake of amusement if I had one question that I would ask an alien from another part of space / time, or from another dimension I would most likely ask ...

"What is the meaning of life and how did our multiple set of quantum dimensions come into existence, and what existed before then, and what is the explanation of time / space travel and manipulation of matter / mass into energy and the explanation of how to convert oneself into a being composed of pure energy since we are being made up of matter that is essentially molecules in motion or energy with mass and hence gravity ?"

OK that is more than one question but it would answer a whole bunch of my questions ...

Originally posted by _Mr.X_
Do you wash the anal probes at all?

Aww no one thought my question was funny.. *sniff*

reply to post by poltergeist


intresting questions

Originally posted by 27jd
This thread is pretty silly, but has me wondering how so many have it in their heads that E.T.'s will have all the answers. Just because they are technologically advanced doesn't mean they're deities or supremem beings. They may be highly advanced only in the area of science and technology, but dumb as rocks artistically and philisophically. What if you were the first explorer to land on a very remote island and the native peoples thought you were some god and had all the answers? Would you pretend you did so they would worship you like the ewoks worshipped C3PO?

Excellent.

I personally would ask one of two questions; depending on the perceived threat level:

Who is Jesus to you?

or

Can you guess how many rounds remain in my magazine?

reply to post by MegaCurious



i dont want alians to go away i want them to come see us

reply to post by SKunkyCharms


2012

Originally posted by 27jd
My question:

Mr. Alian, why did you abduct SoFunkyMe's grammatical comprehension, and ZeroGhost's sense of humor?

And a request:

Please stop flashing Now_Then's memory.

[edit on 23-10-2007 by 27jd]

They didn't get my sense of humor. I told them it was my gall bladder and I saved myself the cost of surgery.

I really do think this is a serious question. Where on earth can you discuss this stuff with any seriousness but ATS? I just don't want to loose a great place to be serious. There are plenty of other places to get giggles.

BTW, I laughed out loud at your post. Thanks for the balance.

I wonder if Alian is an Alien? (that would be scary)

ZG

I really hate to be a wet rag here, but from some of the answers here we could have a very interesting thread if less silliness.

I laughed too at a few of your jokes, and some jokes just.. well just sad. I know this is a great subject to have fun with, but I think our fear and our embarrassment at our own clueless lack of knowledge has us falling back to humor in stead of real constructive thought. The question will really scare people if seriously thought about.

We might want to start a new thread to try again. Some really good responses here but it seemed disproportionate.

The question was an innocent, simple, half serious one that maybe was not deserving of serious answers. But, the response numbers leads me to believe it is an important enough subject that we all had a reaction, whether for fun or deeper understanding.

I myself am all over this subject from a very deep place. I have a real sense we may need to have an idea how to react to such questions soon.

I will think on a better phrasing of the question so it attracts a more serious response. But first I need to replace some neurochemistry with deep sleep.

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzG

I would ask:

Will you please disclose to me all of your civilasations knowledge on every subject known to you with physical demonstrations ?

That way every conceivable question is covered !

My Question,

Does this look infected?

This thread is in the wrong forum.

a good northern yorkshire welcome.
Oreet lad, welcome barnsley, earth. wanna pint mate?

I would ask if I could please travel with them for a month and learn and record all sorts of interesting information in notebooks. If that wasn't an option, I would ask if the could print [in English] various general-type information of different races and their worlds, like a Book of the Galaxy, or Universe. If THAT wasn't possible, I'd just ask to spend a day with them and eat their kind of food and talk and look at pictures of their world/other worlds that I could paint and draw inspiration from later.