just wondered how would u react if it turn out there extra terrestrial intelligenc out there and we some how made some form of communication?
1/ how do you think you'd react as an individual?
2/ and how do you think we'd react as a human race?
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SETI......what if?
Sex God
Quote by cliper
just wondered how would u react if it turn out there extra terrestrial intelligenc out there and we some how made some form of communication?
1/ how do you think you'd react as an individual?
2/ and how do you think we'd react as a human race?
have you been watching too many sci-fi films
bring it on!!we get on with animals don't we? wots the difference
Quote by cliper
just wondered how would u react if it turn out there extra terrestrial intelligenc out there and we some how made some form of communication?
1/ how do you think you'd react as an individual?
i would probably think it was a big hoax.....even if a big spaceship landed in Trafagar Square.
2/ and how do you think we'd react as a human race?
we would react the way we normally do.....with distrust and paranoia!
Quote by cliper
just wondered how would u react if it turn out there extra terrestrial intelligenc out there and we some how made some form of communication?
1/ how do you think you'd react as an individual?
I would say talk back to them. But that me speaking as a Sci-fi fan and willing to go out there at a moments notice.
2/ and how do you think we'd react as a human race?
A mix of mass hysteria and joy. My worry is how would the governments of the world handle it ? Not very well i think
Sex God
As individuals we'd try to anthropmorphise them.
As a human race we'd nuke 'em!
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As a human race we'd nuke 'em!
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Sex God
turn this around though- what would they make of us 
Sex God
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now i think it fair to say if there alreay here they must be so superior to us that we'd harldy be able to 'nuke-em', i was more thinking along the lines of a some transmission or somthing, as for asing them for a shag would if they have six legs or 12 eyes? lol
aren't we all aliens in our own way soz not got six legs or 12 eyes though! wish I had could see from different angles when I do it!!
Sex God
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Out there.... Out there??
Have you checked the fookin ads.... theres enough of em in there ff's
And for goodness sake dont look at some of the folk who use the forums, then you will know that the ailens have already landed
(not aimed at you MDR, unless you want it to be)
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Out there.... Out there??
Have you checked the fookin ads.... theres enough of em in there ff's
And for goodness sake dont look at some of the folk who use the forums, then you will know that the ailens have already landed
(not aimed at you MDR, unless you want it to be)
Its all alien to us......... well most anyway lol..... :wink:
Sexlightened
Quote by cliper
just wondered how would u react if it turn out there extra terrestrial intelligenc out there and we some how made some form of communication?
1/ how do you think you'd react as an individual?
2/ and how do you think we'd react as a human race?
1/ I'd be ecstatic and want to know as much as I could find out. I've been running the SETI screen saver for years looking for the "Wow" signal.
2/ Some of the human race would be very upset and would claim it was all a hoax, or the signal had been misinterpreted - the churches I mean, as doesn't the Bible say we are unique in the Universe? If that is the case, such a discovery would blow the main planks of the Christian religion out of the water (can't comment on other religions as being a devout athiest I don't know enough about any of them).
Some people would be afraid, some people would be like me, keen to know more. Of course, we the people would have very little direct say in how things were taken forward, and actually I wonder whether we - the people - would ever find out, or whether the governments would keep it under wraps.
At least contact would get SETI at Berkley the funding they need!
individually - wow, amazing!
as a planet - Aargh, nuke them
I particularly like Arthur C Clarke quote in this area
"If in fact we are alone, it means that we're not only the heirs to the cosmos, but its guardians, which is a portentous thought.... Either alternative is amazing: whether we're alone or not alone."
as a planet - Aargh, nuke them
I particularly like Arthur C Clarke quote in this area
"If in fact we are alone, it means that we're not only the heirs to the cosmos, but its guardians, which is a portentous thought.... Either alternative is amazing: whether we're alone or not alone."
Sex God
Well we do live in the ' unfashionable' western spiral arm of the galaxy, bit of a run down area at the best of times
Quote by DeviousLiasons
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
;-)
Sexlightened
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At least contact would get SETI at Berkley the funding they need!
So did you get the begging email from Arthur C Clarke too? ;-)
I did. I didn't feel generous last time he asked, either. I reckon that I donate enough by running my PC 24 hours a day crunching data.
Actually, I've been running the Rosetta@home project for the last three months as I got fed up with SETI workunits crashing after running for 15 hours, or getting into that mode where the "time remaining" goes up rather than down, and then the workunit crashing after 40 hours processing, or the project having no work available.
Still, at least I wasn't running the Climate Prediction project for ages, only for the results to be crap as there was a bug in the program.
Quote by Lissa
There is intelligent life out there in the universe....................and they are far too intelligent to want to come anywhere near an uncivilised, xenophobic, war-mongering world like ours.
Here here!....
The notion we are alone in the universe is a little far fetched (IMHO). I think we always suspect that humanoid beings (2 arms, 2 legs and a head) will land one day, in a big silver disc in London (interesting idea mentioned earlier about landing in Trafalgar Square, it's quite an enclosed space really when ya think about it, there must me easier sites in London) Anyway, we expect some normality in look of the being, but probably very different in delivery mechanism.
Anyone ever considered that they may not have come because they are exactly like us in every way shape and form. They would be sat on a blue green planet, near a sun somewhere, spending more time killing each other than worrying about the real killers floating around above their heads, and having fired a few of their kind off their rock in a metal tube once or twice, are really still struggling with making something that allows deep space exploration...
Would mean there was another 652,659 members swinging out there somewhere! :D
Back to the questions though:
1/ how do you think you'd react as an individual?
I would grind some fresh coffee to sit down in front of the telly watch some coverage on Sky News (obvious place to get news about something that came from the sky) Then probably get on with life, as this really just another part of life isn't it.
2/ and how do you think we'd react as a human race?
If it landed today, I think religion would fall apart (might not be a bad thing when you consider how many lives have, and are being lost in its name. We would have a show of force, as that is all we ever do as a race when we don't understand something. Then we would find out why they were here, and as I despair for the human race most days, I expect it would be a dodgy GPS, or should have turned right at Saturn. Gotta be a Uranus joke in here, but I can't quite spot it (Schoolboy humour, you can't beat it)
A serious response.
Is there anyone out there?
In a inifinite universe it seems inconcevable we are on the only planet to produce life. However, we could be the first planet or we maybe the last.
The real problem in encountering other races are the distances between planets and solar systems. The distances are so vast and the rules of physics(as we understand them) would suggest that the speeds obtainable by a craft would make interstallar travel impossible. Unless an alien race lives a significant longer period of time than us.
I'm sure SHOOGLE can explain the problems of space travel
Is there anyone out there?
In a inifinite universe it seems inconcevable we are on the only planet to produce life. However, we could be the first planet or we maybe the last.
The real problem in encountering other races are the distances between planets and solar systems. The distances are so vast and the rules of physics(as we understand them) would suggest that the speeds obtainable by a craft would make interstallar travel impossible. Unless an alien race lives a significant longer period of time than us.
I'm sure SHOOGLE can explain the problems of space travel
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A serious response.
I thought mine was serious :!: with a sprinkling of sugar coated humour as it is Christmas
Hi Keeno, and everyone else here, I think you are right about the distances being too great. However, I think there is perhaps something else going on here too. That maybe a rule of nature, has made life exist so far apart for a really good reason. Maybe it would spell disaster if the races ever met, bit like Rick Moranis and Sigourney (Oooooerrrrr) Weaver in Ghostbusters! Whoever or whatever created life to begin with, perhaps created life in such a way as to preclude that risk. While we can see development possibilities that in theory make interstellar travel possible one day, maybe we are missing something and it really is not possible at all, not that it will stop us from trying
What do you think 
:One other thing I wanted to throw into the arena. Thinking some more about length of existence of a race, directly influencing the ability for travel of this kind to happen. I know it is the current thinking that the longer you live as a communicating race, the more developed your race becomes. But I wonder if it might not also be the case, that a development of emotion happens alongside too. I mean, maybe the race develops to the point at which it sees war and conquering for the futile pastimes they are (I am not a pacifist by the way, but I appreciate that war only gives a temporary solution to any problem)
. If they came to understand and accept this point as a divine rule of some kind by which they decide to live, they might feel that though they could do it, to travel here would risk confrontation and therefore not want to do it :!: (if you get my drift... is it still Tuesday ? :lol
. After all, our response as a world would always be, to surround any alien visitor with military hardware first and then ask questions later :? I think this could be argued both ways. Interesting conversation though!
