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Aliens

10 years ago
Let me set the scene:

It's the 1st of May, 2014 at around 4:00AM EST. The sky is partially covered with large amounts of space-crafts as big as small clouds. They have not killed anything yet, they have not moved, and have not given any signals as to what they are here for.

Would everyone panic or would we be curious? Governments and agencies around the world, would they do something immediately or hold fire until a threat is detected? I was really thinking about this for a while, and I came to the conclusion that there are a lot of "out-of-touch" people around the world, and a lot of stupid people around the world, and a lot of nervous people around the world. So my thought is if something like an alien invasion is seen around the world - everyone would immediately panic, except people who can keep a level head.

So the aliens haven't destroyed any terrain, or life, all we see is just these giant ships in the sky that (from what we can tell) are made from a very clean white metal.

Would leaders of countries stop whatever they were doing - and attack from nowhere? It would be un-wise, and especially with all the wars and rebellions going on, would the invasion bring people together? Would everyone gather to be ready to fight and protect their lives as humanity? Would YOU drop your shit and get geared up? Obviously, a threat hasn't been detected yet - but it is a possible threat.

So it's been about an hour, military jets all over the world are scrambling, passenger flights are landing and not taking off, and there are giant ships made from an unknown material hovering in the sky doing nothing.

Would it be wise to use nuclear warfare and or other weapons to attempt an attack on these giant hovering ships immediately? If it works, the potential threat is gone - but the research material is also gone. If we don't fire, and wait - we could all instantly die with one shot, because we have no idea what these ships are capable of, how much they weigh, what they are, where they are from, who made them, how they got here, what they may contain, or why they are here in the first place.

It's so obscure and unlikely, I don't think many people are prepared if it were to happen out of nowhere. So my question is, what would you do and why would you do it? Also what caused you to come to the conclusion that you would have to do that?

Aliens

10 years ago

The chances of them being hostile would be minimal, as even if they were a warlike species, the ship they send would most likely be a scouting ship. I think a diplomatic group should be sent and some way to translate whatever language they speak. However, humans being humans, we'll try to take advantage of them. Thus, I personally wouldn't hunker down at the time they appear, but I would be extremely cautious and have ways to keep myself safe just in case.

Aliens

10 years ago

Then we just have to say they're blocking air traffic.  :L

Aliens

10 years ago

Governments around the world would either get all protective or try to keep everyone calm. NATO already elected somebody who's the ultimate diplomat or something, who would be pretty much the one person who's allowed to speak with aliens if they show up. But I assume anything with the proper technology to get here before we do, unless they've RELIGIOUSLY tried, without stopping for things like war and trade, for the whole of their civilized existence, to get to other planets, and have literally no other weapons technology they could have developed, is worth fearing to some degree.  And unless the entirety of the alien race was brought here, they're pretty much trapped lightyears away from their homes, they'll never, in their lifetimes, be able to communicate on long terms or see their homeworld again, unless they have absurdly long lifespans. They may have self-perpetuating life resources, or they may have run out, the time it took to get here, (unless they have warp or light speed travel) would require that they reproduce, they'd never get much non-inbreeding sex done by the time they get here, so they'd need to have evolved something to protect them from hereditary damages, unless they don't reproduce like we do.

What I'm saying is, these people would be detached and desperate, they might be jealous, insane, sad, willing to contact us just that much, or otherwise. And that's assuming their psychology and intellect is similar to ours.

There are far too many variables that come into play based on the behavior of the beings alone that would determine how I reacted. We're dealing with species that have evolved on entirely different planets, under different circumstances, they may have more or different elements than we do, they may be made out of different stuff, they may have different technology, or they're susceptible to different things, they might not even be made out of cells. The same with their ships. The very concept of what their ships do, besides moving around and how they do anything they do might be completely foreign to us, maybe they can't even survive our orbit because it's so foreign to them? Maybe their concept of life is so different that they think Earth is a dead planet? Maybe their intelligence is so high that we're oversized amoebas to them? Maybe they've been here all along, and our concept of life is so foreign that we think they're not living.

But if it was one of those disc-riding aliens that just so happen to be hostile, you'd bet your ass I'd get my baseball bat and yoyo, gather up my homeboy, my dog, a random chick with magic powers, a martial artist named after excrement, and a 50-year-old retired thief, and then murder the crap out of all of them using household weapons and psychokinetic magics.

Aliens

10 years ago

FINALLY! Some true intergalactic porn! 

Aliens

10 years ago

Ok, retard mode off. I think the one thing that would be on everyone's minds should be "what the fuck are they waiting for?"

The area would have been evacuated and bombs targeted at it, though what are the odds of them entering earth without seeing them?

Aliens

10 years ago

That would depend on how fast the ships entered and if we had actually received warning about them long enough for us to evacuate the cities(to where? I don't know.) before the aliens arrived.

Aliens

10 years ago

I think most people would be split between just wanted to shoot them down and wanting to find out what they want. For the governments of the world it would depend on who is running it and what they assumed the space-ships are. I'm sure a few nations would start trying to shoot them out of the sky regardless.

I would assume that the aliens just sitting up in the sky blocking plenty of birds/air traffic and not destroying the environment would help a little. Right?

Most people would consider the aliens a bigger problem and threat unless they were dealing with a natural disaster/plague/famine at the time. I'd personally prepare as best I can but I doubt I'd be able to do anything meaningful against the aliens if they turned hostile. 

I'm sure a world-wide nuclear attack against them would be a literal last-resort against the aliens since it would ruin our world and I'm sure paranoia about a nation "accidently" shooting a few missiles at a nation would help lessen the chance. That and we have no idea if it would even work.

I would just hope the Governments of the world and the UN don't get us killed. I would do this since it's unlikely that the aliens will meet with just random people across the world. I also know that I wouldn't be able to actually do much against the aliens if they turned hostile.

Aliens

10 years ago

Believe it or not the governments of the world already have plans for alien invasion. I watched a documentary about it online. If aliens come, the US intends to scan them with radar and anything we can use to find out their intent, while signaling them in all the languages of the world. Additionally they will send in jet fighters scrambled to be prepared if the aliens turn hostile.

It is unlikely that nukes will even scratch the paint of these ships. Likely, these ships are not going to be in our atmosphere but in orbit above us, thats just the way that super large space vehicles need to be parked, so we can assume they are probably looking at us from space (for the most part, maybe a few shuttles would be down here) and the thing is that nukes don't work very well in space at all. Space has no atmosphere. And they only part of the nuke that does not require an atmosphere as a medium is the radiation, and thats just not going to do very much against an alien ship...

If they come, they will likely neither be hostile or friendly in my opinion. If they have developed faster than light travel then they are so advanced that to them we would be basically chimpanzees. You don;t send an army to deal with chimps and you don;t negotiate with them, you just do what you came to do.

If they do NOT have faster than light travel... then those ships up in the sky are probably manned only by robots. Without FTL travel, we can assume that the first ship any aliens send this way would basically be exploration drones. If they make contact with us at all it would probably be to refuel (which depending on their source of fuel could be very unpleasent for us and be no different then an invasion, considering that some people say we would eventually be able to run machinery on biological matter...)

 

That said, What *I* personally would do in this situation is unless they sent messages to us of their peaceful intent, I would grab my family and as many supplies as I could and head for the hills. Gearing up and fighting the aliens during the actual invasion would be suicide, the first landings are going to be a slaughter. Remember that from space, they have lots of asteroids, and remember that just one killed the dinosaurs... they could bombard us with the most effective possible artillery. The only shance humanity has against an alien invasion (by either a hostile force or the drones) would be guerilla warfare. They are far from home and on their own. They won;t be getting resupply anytime soon. While we wouldn;t be able to blow them out of the sky, hit and run tactics while they are on earth are a very possible alternative, and could potentially send them packing by making them view the mission as counter productive.  

Aliens

10 years ago

Well, this is a very interesting question indeed.

Honestly, I would try diplomacy first.

Lets think about this. These aliens are floating in the sky. As far as I know, we haven't developed this technology yet. If we tried diplomacy, we could learn a lot from these aliens, and depending on what they look like, could live among us.

Plus, if your a leader of a nation, could use their knowledge for military aplications.

Usually I'm the person that tries to be generally nice to new people, but still.

Okay, enough proving, to the point.

Send someone on a peace mission, make sure they're not here to hurt us, and if those few get killed and or are here for something that could cost us death, then open fire.

Even if they invaded us, they would die from our earthly bacteria. When the British came to the new world and used the "Indians" as slaves, they caught their diseases and died. Thats why they used slaves from Africa, they were immune, not sure how, but immune.

Aliens

10 years ago

That's the fun thing about aliens. They may have entirely differently wired brains, entirely different psychologies and beliefs. Even the sweetest of diplomacies could be an insult to them. They may have entirely unearthly physiologies, hell, they might be hyper-evolutionary. Our viruses, our bacteria might not even work on their bodies. With the possibility of them having more or different elements, and the possibility that they might just be made of something that isn't some carbon-based mechanism. They could be living, breathing chernobyls, unquenchable conflagurations, sentient gas, all manner of eldritch oddities. That's the problem with our diplomacy and warfare. We've only ever tried to kill or befirend what we can comprehend, but what if something rolls along that we couldn't comprehend before? How would we fight something we can't infect, bludgeon, shoot, drown, or cut? How will we make friends with something that doesn't want or need anything we have to offer, or may be so complexly brained that our own languages are simple, untranslatable gerbil chatter?

Aliens

10 years ago

I would hope that if my civilization managed to complete FTL or warp-speed technology that we would learn how to combat different diseases and plagues before we got there.

That and we would obviously wear suits. lol