Hawking says contact with Aliens could be risky

[IliketoPuck]

Photon sums up what I meant earlier about them dealing with our weapons.

A: How do we get them there in the first place? Are you telling me our super awesome Discovery space ships could get within 1000 km of one of their ships.....not bloody likely.
B: If they got here, they sure as hell can stop a nuke.

[HotHotHeat]

Originally Posted by photon

If they can't deal with the forces of a nuclear weapon, then they wouldn't be here to begin with since they couldn't deal with interstellar dust and debris at relativistic speeds.

Obviously you haven't taken into consideration the spectacular response time of extraterrestrial drivers.

[Old Yeller]

Imagine if you went back in time 100 years and had all this technology. It would look like magic to people back in 1910. Now imagine some alien species that's hundreds if not thousands of years more advanced than us comes to Earth... same deal.

If some "thing" came to Earth with the sole purpose of killing us off and taking our planet, we wouldn't even know they'd arrived before we were all dead.

[IliketoPuck]

If they have that reaction speed, I don't think even Chucky Norris could stop them.

[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by photon

If they can't deal with the forces of a nuclear weapon, then they wouldn't be here to begin with since they couldn't deal with interstellar dust and debris at relativistic speeds.

I think half the point is that they'll never be here in the first place, due to that reasoning. They can't get here, just like we can't get there.

I'm not sure if its possible to "deal with" those kinds of forces.

[IliketoPuck]

Deflector Shields...problem solved.

[Sliver]

I loved this post from the science thread...

Originally Posted by Thor

[To Be Quite Honest]

NOBODY LISTENED TO THIS GUY!!!

!!!!

http://I'm insane.com

Only listen for 2-3 mins.... Then the joke is over.

[troutman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_c...cience_fiction)

First contact is a common science fictiontheme about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient race's first encounter with another one.

The theme allows authors to explore such topics such as xenophobia, transcendentalism, and basic linguistics by adapting the anthropological topic of first contact to extraterrestrial cultures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrate...mpact_on_Earth

[GreenLantern]

Ya like those aliens could already be here... walking among us.. posing as forum moderators for a popular sports franchise website.. knowing just a little TOO much about space travel and what is required...

QUICK GRAB HIM BEFORE ITS TO LATE


The Green Lantern Corps took an interesting approach to Earth. Humans, and the planet earth, are seen as very primitive. Often described as a backwater planet that if given the top end of technology available in the universe would simply destroy themselves and possibly neighbouring planets, so they are kept in the dark. Left to deal with themselves and just monitored to make sure they don't affect anything around them.

A scenario I actually don't find that far off.

[Sainters7]

This thread's got a funny flow to it. It started out jokey, then turned into a serious debate for a bit, now its back to comedic. Before it turned funny again, I was going to say that between this debate and the one in the Avatar thread about what is the better alien planet, Pandora or one from Star Wars, that this is possibly the biggest nerd-out CP's ever had.

[IliketoPuck]

So what you are saying is that omnipotent aliens don't want to give extremists access to universe destroying technology? Go Figure.

[HotHotHeat]

I just googled Force Fields.

[troutman]

Kids In The Hall:

Alien 1: Ready the anal probe
Alien 2: Anal probe is ready.
Alien 1: Commence anal probing.
Alien 2: Quick, erase his memory!
Alien 1: Memory's erased. Get him out of here.
Alien 1: Something wrong?
Alien 2: Ah.. it's nothing really....
Alien 1: I think you could use a cup of coffee.
Alien 2: Yeah.
Alien 1: So what's bothering you?
Alien 2: Ahhhh.... Lately I just keep wondering... what's the point?
Alien 1: The point?
Alien 2: Yeah. What's the point of what we do?
Alien 1: Sorry, I don't follow you
Alien 2: Well, I mean, we travel 250,000 light years across the universe, abduct humans, probe them anally and release them.
Alien 1: Yeah... AND?
Alien 2: Well, doesn't it seem kind of point-LESS?
Alien 1: I really don't think about it.
Alien 2: Well don't you think you should?
Alien 1: No, I don't think I should. I don't think I should question the leadership of our Great Leader
Alien 2: Oh, come on! I mean, we've been coming here for 50 years and performing anal probes and all that we have learned is that 1 in10 doesn't really seem to mind.
Alien 1: Well, do you have a better plan than our Great Leader?
Alien 2: Yes I do, I do have a better plan. My plan is that we DON'T travel 250,000 light years, we DON'T abduct any humans and, this is the best part, we DON'T do any anal probing.
Alien 1: Oh, great plan! Do you realize how many people Intergalactic Anal-Probing employees?
Alien 1: Well back to work.
Alien 2: Awww..
Alien 1: Ready the anal probe.
Alien 2: Anal probe is ready.
Alien 1: Commence anal probing
Alien 2: Couldn't we at least abduct their political or religious leaders instead of just any idiot in a pickup truck?!?!
Alien 1: I'm sure the Great Leader has his reasons
Alien 2: Well, I'm sure the Great Leader is just some sort of twisted ass freak!
Alien 1: All right. I am now officially ignoring you. Commence anal probing.

[photon]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

I think half the point is that they'll never be here in the first place, due to that reasoning. They can't get here, just like we can't get there.

I'm not sure if its possible to "deal with" those kinds of forces.

For the most part yeah, though with enough engineering (like encircling the sun with a bazillion orbiting stations that absorb all the energy from the sun and use that energy to create antimatter to take along with us, thus avoiding the difficulties in creating a Dyson sphere) you can get a lot further.

But without a complete game changing source of energy (like tapping the vacuum for energy or something) it's difficult.

I lean towards physics limiting things since we haven't detected anything out there that would indicate it's possible (Fermi Paradox).

[fredr123]

Douse them with water. Aliens hate water.

[Two Fivenagame]

I just hope the aliens don't happen to watch an episode of Jersey Shore on their way here...they'd wipe us all out.

[Northendzone]

eklund says - aliens to Earth E2......

Loved the quote from the KITH - as I recall Alien 2 mentions that he has a hobby of taking photos of the thing they are probing.....

[kirant]

Originally Posted by Russic

I can't help but think if you've got the technology to get to earth, you've got the technology to shield yourself from nuclear weapons. Has Independence Day taught you nothing?

It taught me that Macs are great for killing alien shields.

[Finny61]

Who cares, we have Randy Quaid.