Alien Invasion Thought Experiment

[Raavak]

Mmmmm alien sex....

[Lulz~Sect]

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[Whirled]

Need Juntsie to seek reparations for the injustices these aliens have brought forth.

[Zade]

Obviously if they had such a vastly superior intellect, they wouldn't arrive to a planet and just start blowing the shit out of it. If they were to show up and start merking the planet, its probably intentional and they wouldn't be like "oh my bad, here's a phaser".

poll is irrelevant

[mickmoranis]

This is a great plot to a great movie. Write it!

[Phenyo]

I think they are more likely to just destroy our planet to stop us shitting up the universe. They definitely wouldn't give us weaponry, it would be like giving nukes to these guys [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Meeting a civilization capable of interstellar travel would probably be fine. I don't see why they would spend the time and energy to come here just to destroy us. Doesn't make a lot of sense to traverse the galaxy just to drop a nuke. However breeding us for slavery is an entirely different conversation....

wouldn't surprise me one bit if 3rd world governments outright offered their people in trade for alien technology.

*coughs*north korea*coughs*

[chadtwoke]

in this scenario is jeff goldblum president of the usa?

[loramin]

99% certain this whole post is just an attempt to justify European colonialism. Hey white people did some horrible, truly atrocious things to their fellow man, but then because they had a technological advantage over those "savages", and because hundreds of years later they stop explicitly colonizing them and let them have some technology (whatever their poor colonized asses could afford), it's all good!

[JurisDictum]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

99% certain this whole post is just an attempt to justify European colonialism. Hey white people did some horrible, truly atrocious things to their fellow man, but then because they had a technological advantage over those "savages", and because hundreds of years later they stop explicitly colonizing them and let them have some technology (whatever their poor colonized asses could afford), it's all good!

Yea no one at college argues that. You can find those that seem to think our anti-colonial attitude is actually holding other less-developed countries back. These people view colonialism as a necessary evil to avoid the greater destruction that happens when a society must develop without outside assistance.

In other words, neo-colonialism worse than colonialism because at least with the latter we have to take some responsibility for how things are going. We want to improve the infrastructure and long-term stability of colonies....we can give a shit about trade partners. We mostly want raw resources from these countries.