Let's assume Aliens exist. What is the best way for them to let us know if they are friendly??

They should give us money...it would make us very happy and forthcoming. No invasion necessary.


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we accept spacemaster and space express cards and various vacuum currency. .

Originally posted by flipflop
Let's say Aliens exist, and they may very well exist, I myself believe that, anyway, lets say Aliens come to earth, and they want to let us know they are friendly...What should they do? How do they let us know?
If one of the craft hovered say 30 feet off the ground and we could see beings behind the windows of the craft looking down at us, Should they wave, would that be a way to let us know they are friendly, or should they blow us kisses.... they can't speak our language, so what sign could they make to say to us, hey we are friendly and will not harm you. it's a first communication with them... or do we say to hell with friendly and hide under the kitchen table.... What do you think....

Well i can tell you what they shouldn't do! To start with kidnapping and medical experiments.Then they really shouldn't steal cows just to mutilate them.Oh and stop writing in the poor farmers crops he takes a financial loss every time someone tramples his field.And then there is danger every time they fly over populated areas of crashing since apparently they have done that before.And then there is they need to slow it down im tired of all the blurry videos. And lets end with endangering lives flying around commercial airliners.

Report.

As we explored this milky way, we found a planet which is full of movement.
We have visited and observed this planet as it rotated 200 times around its sun.
It is very beautiful to see from a distance, at the surface plants and trees grow but most of the surface consist of water.
There are many creatures living on this planet, the dominant species seem to be the human creature and they are very agressive.
During those 200 cycles we have seen the surface change, the human creatures expand and need more space at the expense of the other creatures which are often killed by the human creatures or kept in a cage.
Their agression is also towards each other, at first they fought and killed each other on the ground with canons and rifles, but nowadays they have aircrafts with which they drop bombs at each other.
For a period it seemed that the human creature became less agressive, in that period a rocket flew to a nearby little satalite which humans have named moon.
Especially during this period we felt safe to visit, explore the surface and take samples.
If a human spotted us they panic and run, one time we took a human with us to examine this creature.
They make very loud noices and are continiously in panic so we dropped this creature as soon as we were done back on the surface of this planet which humans have named earth.
For the last 20 cycles their agression is building again, intelligence is low and because of their agressive nature it is not in our interest to meet them and although they have put a little machine on a death planet, we think they have a long way to go before they are advanced enough to actually go into space and explore like we do.

"Let's assume Aliens exist. What is the best way for them to let us know if they are friendly?"

I imagine some kind of wide band broadcast employing the use of radio waves that communicates in plain English the words "We come in peace. Please don't take us to your leaders!" would suffice. LoL

A huge dance party with lights. while the craft spews 100 dollar bills and various tasty snacks and beverages.

Here's a thought. Maybe they could stop abducting people. 👽👉💨🚶

Now I'm not saying they can't experiment, just that they should get consent. Like put out an add for medical testing. Plenty of people will heed the call.

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Hm, it's strange... For the moment the thought crossed my mind that you are an alien ambassador checking the pulse of earthlings on random forums, and you're fairly new here.
OK, kill us all, it wouldn't be a pity afterall, and do it quick, as we inevitably going into abyss...

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"Here's a thought. Maybe they could stop abducting people. 👽👉💨🚶"

Apparently its some clandestine branch of our government that does the abducting, the Aliens just stick to probing.

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I take your point, and understand, but also I was thinking, of ourselves when we are in the science lab experimenting on rabbits, we give them ailments and antibodies for testing various drugs or whatever, in order to help our species, but then we go home and we tend our pet rabbits that we keep in our back yards, we are kind to them and responsible, and protect them from predators, cats/dogs etc, ,,,,,

so what do rabbits make of us just by that example?

The aliens would have their work cut out for them. The citizens of Earth can't agree about anything, and we have a long history of declaring war when things don't go right. One country might like the aliens' perks; another country might be suspicious or flat out not care for the "gift." Even FTL technology might set off a round of debates on MSN, and human experts could debate the pros and cons of the gift. Then the debate would become discursive and move off-topic, discussing the aliens themselves, the impact on religion, etc. Poor aliens. I have an idea that any alien species doing a fly-by of planet Earth would hit the FTL and haul arse. Run, Forrest, Run!

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@Let's assume Aliens exist. What is the best way for them to let us know if they are friendly??,

By Projecting/showing them an example of how Humans as a SPECIES can behave friendly and then Reflecting accordingly...

NAMASTE*******

Originally posted by synnergy
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The real question is: What have we done to let them know we are friendly?

Exactly what I would have said, only you got there first
But actually it is a good question from the OP, since we have moved on a little from the time when our 'Advanced' nations explored new continents in big wooden boats, and sought to placate savages, (who obviously looked much the same as us) with hunting weapons, and rosemary bleads while overall sought to dominate a 'New world'. It's an out of time difference, the scale of which we have no clue.

well, first off they d have to do a lot of research first, probably for a long time - as communication would an absolutely crucial issue. They d also probably want to hold off until the planet was relatively united sociologically as well, or at least near to it (that wouldn't necessarily be a one world govt.). So you would probably have a lot of remote probes, possibly with 'manned' field expeditions towards the end of the research period. All this would have to be as secret as possible. After that, limited and gradual exposure to the idea of an alien species would probably take place, selective reveals in key areas, contact with fringe groups, in order to familiarize the target species with the idea. Creative and novel forms of communication would be sought, that initially escape any obvious identification with advanced alien technology. You contact individuals and groups that are sympathetic or accepting already (and presumably not overly malevolent themselves), and work within their belief systems, staying invisible to the larger population; an analogy would be vaccination. If the alien race truly is benign, they want to minimize cultural shock as much as possible. Over time you make bigger and bigger reveals, and hopefully have an already very curious population of humans that wish to know for sure , that themselves are already more than open to contact. Eventually you do something obvious but non-threatening (definitely not showing up over the white house) that leaves a lot of people convinced. You are going to avoid existent power blocs in favor of informal contact with general populations. You are not obsessed with making friends with powerful human, in fact would be largely indifferent (remember the aliens are supposed to be benign here) Basically you want the majority of humans to piece it together themselves as much as possible, until very little doubt is left. When it is normalized for most humans, then the threat of culture shock is effectively minimized.

sent their hottest bitches....then we can talk.

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All well and good in part, but the OP has already made the purposeful assumption that aliens exist, and presumably are here. It's about what happens after.

Originally posted by zilebeliveunknown
reply to post by flipflop

 

Hm, it's strange... For the moment the thought crossed my mind that you are an alien ambassador checking the pulse of earthlings on random forums, and you're fairly new here.
OK, kill us all, it wouldn't be a pity afterall, and do it quick, as we inevitably going into abyss...

Oh sure I'm an alien ambassador, looking around the galaxys to see if anyone needs a few pyramids building or perhaps a few grand temples,,, even an odd oblisk here or there ... but don't worry, I won't let any aliens kill anyone...

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So, their hottest bitches stand at your door, three eyed slimy creatures who lay eggs.
What are you going to do?

Originally posted by SloAnPainful
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Aliens would come to Earth and say, "We made a wrong turn at Proxima Centauri now we ended up in the wrong neighborhood... This must be the slums..." Then dip off with a quick U-turn.

-SAP-

If aliens can travel millions of light years, Earth to them must look like East St. Louis.

By making a big appearance over major cities in really big crafts, then NOT blowing us up. Make it so there's no way for any of the governments to deny it and let the people come to grips with it, then build a relationship from there.

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I think answer is fairly obvious. They land their ship in a densely populated area, one of them steps out of the ship, smoking a ciggy, holding a cold budweiser and a pearl handled .44 magnum strapped to his thin waist and utters those first friendly words : ok, we're here and we have..."the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do you, punk?"