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

reply to post by Aliensun


Great reply - thought provoking and pertinent to the greater issues at hand.

My first comment regarding crop circles reflects, in a somewhat tongue in cheek manner, the realities I perceive regarding the way we are slowly being conditioned to accept the presence of a mysterious 'Other' - though I don't believe that we are dealing with only one group of entities. My personal feeling is that we have guardians and enemies, both operating covertly. The Enemy wants a return to the mystery religions and a New World Order - the Guardians seek to lead us onto a correct path, and sabotage the work of the Enemy.

It's a tangled web that has been woven, and we need to tread carefully to avoid the spiders' bites.

learning the language i speak, offering some mead and garlands of fresh purple urkel, and a few bars of gold would be a good start. also giving me some sort of superpower would be nice like duplicating any given object

2 words. Anal. Probe.

For starters they can stop abducting people and sticking weird stuff up their butts.

Land, share technology that could stop wars, dieses, or even nullify radiation (Fukashima) really an endless amount of things they could do as a peace offering. Being that hasn't happened in dozen or possibly, 100's of years, it makes me wonder if they are friendly. If it looks like a duck.....

Originally posted by ButterCookie
Well, I doubt that any extraterrestrial being feels the 'need' to let us know that they exist...

When you walking down the street, do you ever feel compelled to let the ants know that you are friendly?

In the grand scheme of things, there are galaxies with planets that formed millions of years before Earth did; therefore, there would be alien civilizations that have million-year head-starts on us. The advanced species would most likely not care to communicate with us, let alone feel pressured to let us know that are 'friendly'.

You make a very good point regarding ants, but I'm sure lots of us have admired an animal such as a dog, and we allow it to smell our hand, and dont rush in on it. in our attempt to show the animal we are friendly and we don't want to hurt them... thanks though for your point of view, like everyone who replied so far, without jest, they are a lot of good points,,,

alien hard liquor... party at my place. bring roger

reply to post by earthling42


If the have three eyes...they should have three breasts....now that's hot

Them not blowing us up in a nano second for our planets desirable resources seems pretty friendly enough.

reply to post by Specimen


yeah that would def help!

Originally posted by unb3k44n7
If they bring puppies and refrain from removing their vital organs surgically in front of me

O please, not the puppy. I like his tail on, and it helps his balance too.
Thank you for the visual.
I've had some semi-masochistic friends-- and I can hope by now the people
I care about haven't graduated to self mutilation.. but I believe the best way
to show us they're friendly is by not removing ANY vital organs, surgically
or through any other method. I think this could somehow translate to the trigger
happy tank commander in the original "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
"It was a gift for your President.." .. doofus uniformed beltway autoloader cowboy.
There is the point where a gossamer thin vac suit isn't holdin' back a .45 ACP.
Therefore I believe they're going to hold off a landing until the doofi have self-cleansed.

But if the puppies are from around here and already paper trained,

There's a condition if theirs, they can't each have more eyes than my 25 lb bag o'
spuds: it makes me wary when a young pan-galactic carnivore is scrutinizing
multiple areas of my anatomy at the same moment with independent ocular
organs. Twelve pound short haired chameleons with fangs, maybe a pass on that
one too... they could play rough.

If they on the other hand bring the Police Robots for a one-time sweep and clear
of the global government cabal. hey I'll help buff off the seared viscera. "There you
go Gortette, no charge. By the way, cute cowl today; where'd you get that?"
expecting no answer
I know that scenario's a counter proposal flying in the face of the Prime Directive--
but you can't deny we need it done for us, it's outa control down here. Spockstein out.

(goes back to bedroom closet for a few extra 6" flap wheels for the big Makita... waiting)

reply to post by The GUT


Lots of humans have been killed for trying to disclose free energy to the public already. I can only imagine what the gov would do to aliens.

I think they should throw lots of money out the windows as they fly over and cookies. XD

Ami

Originally posted by rickymouse
If the aliens stop by, they should bring a can of Hills bros.coffee as a way to show they are friendly...

I agree...they should wear the smell of Eau de freshly-brewed-coffee, hippie-up and hand out daisies for everyone...also, a nice coiffure would go a long way to convincing me they gave it a bit of thought...

Å99

reply to post by Aliensun


Adjective
Kind and pleasant.
(of a person) On good or affectionate terms: "I was friendly with one of the local farmers".
Synonyms
amicable - amiable - neighbourly - neighborly - kind

Its all a matter of perspective and knowledge when it comes to an alien species and there are many. Many are friendly aka nice to humans, some are not but pretend to be to gain whatever their agenda desires, still others do not care one way or other about earth or its inhabitants and merely stop here rarely on the way to other places.The fact that they do not eat you is a plus, that they return you after abduction is another plus, hostile aliens will not return you. The very fact that we exist is a sure sign they arent hostile or else we would not be here at all. It would not take long to rid the earth of most of humanity, or enslave it as the gov has.

According to human societies rules even nice aliens can seem rude and mean, even evil, however if they ever met the real malevolent ones they would know the difference. There are benevolent species that have protected earth since day one, and yet are still hated by humans so I would ask are humans friendly? I think we are far more barbaric and hostile here than the aliens have been to us with a few exceptions.

Ami

Originally posted by caladonea
reply to post by flipflop

 

Perhaps some of them could become members of ATS and gradually let us know who they really are.

We already have...

2nd line

Å99

This is the British message sent by an alien 'Vrillon', of the Ashtar Command



Proved to be a hoax

reply to post by akushla99


We already have...

2nd line

Å99

Indeed we have but shhhh keep them in suspense its just too cute seeing them speculate XD

Ami

What makes you think they are friendly?

What makes you think they want us to know about them at all, even if they are?

But to me the most serious question is:

What if there are existing control structures in place which prohibit them letting us know?

If one alien race exists, then reasonably, many may exist.

Just because there are practical ways of gradually acclimatizing a species to the realization of other species, doesn't mean that their political or economic situation allows them to pursue those pathways.

There may be political issues between multiple species we don't know about, which cause them to have to operate in a way which leads us to confusion, because we make the hilarious assumption that if aliens exist, they are NEW, and they are not ALREADY in charge of our favorite mudball.

reply to post by RedCairo


you make some valid points, and of course there are more questions??
but my question is "Let's assume Aliens exist. What is the best way for them to let us know if they are friendly?? What I really wanted was people in general to say what they thought aliens should do to tell us if they are friendly.

Well other then not blowing us up in a nano second, they could just do fancy aerial maneuvers in the sky. It would amaze some folks or scare the be-jesus out them. Like those aerial show planes.

Also in other supposed ed cases like the lubdock one, they supposedly could respond to people, or even kind of give cue's in their movements.

Other then, not being blown up great.