Aliens and tech

• Time wrote on 2011-02-05 00:52
  In all those movies or media, partially due to the desire for a good story, aliens come and kill us with their super space guns. I have always thought that there would be a chance that if Aliens were to come here with bad intentions, there would be a chance we could win,because instead of putting all that money into spaceflight, we put it into weapons and armies....Im curious as to what you think? Although this is of course all speculation and everything lol.
• Osayidan wrote on 2011-02-05 00:56
  I don't think it's possible for a species to develop interstellar travel at the speeds required to get anywhere within a lifetime without having overcome the need for violence. I'm sure they would have the ability to kick our asses, but if they do so it's going to be because we started it.
• loltastic659 wrote on 2011-02-05 01:02
  Why would they kill us? I mean, it would be so much more efficient and useful to enslave us and use us as horrible pack-mules.
• Blassreiter wrote on 2011-02-05 01:06
  We already have weapons. Microbes, viruses, bacteria, even our saliva might infect them because they may not be immune to the germs.
• Skye wrote on 2011-02-05 01:08

  Quote from Blassreiter;320591:

  We already have weapons. Microbes, viruses, bacteria, even our saliva might infect them because they may not be immune to the germs.

  
  
  THIS. Watch War of the Worlds. Good movie.
  
  I mean, just moving between continents causes humans to have to develop immunities. Planets would DEFINITELY have to cause species to develop immunities.
• gentrone wrote on 2011-02-05 01:10
  Their technology would be better than ours if they manage to come here in the first place. I think aliens would just destroy ours to extract energy and resources like that guy in Fantastic Four who eats planets.
  
  If we win the battle somehow, it would because of biological factors like a virus or resilient bacteria and diseases. Lol.
  
  However, if they are smart enough, they would learn from us and download information about us from the internet... WAIT. What if they're doing it right now? They could be packet sniffing satellites. OMG.
• Magenera wrote on 2011-02-05 01:16

  Quote from Osayidan;320577:

  I don't think it's possible for a species to develop interstellar travel at the speeds required to get anywhere within a lifetime without having overcome the need for violence. I'm sure they would have the ability to kick our asses, but if they do so it's going to be because we started it.

  
  
  Really all you need is a unified force committed to a cause. Highly doubt any species would change their ways because they have interstellar travel. In fact a unified force for interstellar travel would be easy to if they are using a monetary system, or they are hive minded.
• Phunkie wrote on 2011-02-05 01:31
  If they manage to come here, it would most probably be from somewhere really far away and that means high and advanced technology. There is no doubt in my mind that is this were to happen, we would be screwed. The disparity between us would be too great.
• TA wrote on 2011-02-05 15:38
  I posted this in another thread yesterday-ish...... maybe relevant:
  
  

  Quote from Tasha;318808:

  I read the whole thing, but it only went so far as to remind me just how naive most of our scientists are.
  
  As for the time to travel that distance talk, obviously it wouldn't take a million years to travel that distance as within that allotted time new technology would be invented. Although at our current level of technology that may be true; however, at our current level of technology we should keep our damn asses right on this planet and advance because if we find aliens, they just might not exactly be friendly. We've invented our own little perception of right and wrong and morality, but nothing is to say that they will have any semblance of that. They could be like the Space Hitlers, out to kill all inferior life. Or worse, they may not even be that sentient as to let on as much, they may be more like Aliens (the movie) -- hard to reason with something like that.
  
  Though, like it was said in The Day The Earth Stood Still, "History has lessons to teach us about first encounters between civilizations. As a rule, the less advanced civilization is either exterminated or enslaved. Think of Pizarro and the Incas, Columbus and the Native Americans, the list goes on. Unfortunately, in this case the less advanced civilization is us."
  
  It wasn't just that movie either, even Stephen Hawking thinks similarly, he wrote about it in his book Stephen Hawking's Universe. He doesn't particularly think humans and aliens can co-exist at all. He has no doubt there are other beings in the galaxy, because of a simple mathmatical deduction; however, he doesn't imagine they might be either especially pleasant or particularly bright.
  
  He didn't think too many aliens would be intelligent or even particularly dangerous, but if we come into contact with them, he fears for us rather than them. "If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans," he was quoted saying.
  
  He went on, "I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach."
  
  Think extra-terrestrial Visigoths. That didn't turn out so good.
  
  Anyways, I'm of a similar line of thinking. We're too damn soft and stupid to go around looking for potentially extremely dangerous aliens hellbent on killing us. We need to be advanced enough to defend ourselves first. Because when you get right down to it, a civilization advanced enough to get to us is likely advanced enough to kick our asses like a bunch of little sissies.