What Would Happen If Aliens Were Proven To Exist?

loquacious

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How would it change how humanity views and understands existence?

The Star Trek scenario - tons of alien races exist and are in contact with each other throughout the galaxy/universe. There's good aliens and bad aliens and millions if not billions of different races.

The Microbe scenario - ancient bacterial life is undoubtedly confirmed to have existed on another planet, meaning Earth is not the only place life can happen.

The Alien Invasion scenario - all we know is aliens exist and they're trying to take over the Earth.

... Battlefield LA has me thinking of random shit... lol
A shitload of people will start praying and most of them will say that the aliens are god's creations. Then you will have the conspiracy morons stating that it is a government hoax to hide the fact that they are running secret ops to get them.
 
When it does happen the people of this world would believe in nothing. No after life, no hell ,no heaven, no work, nothing to be frighten of, death in the streets, killing would could become open common place, no one will believe because we have been lied to for so long.What keeps you from killing someone you hate?? The after life, Hell, take that away and what do you have........?
 

karri0n

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When it does happen the people of this world would believe in nothing. No after life, no hell ,no heaven, no work, nothing to be frighten of, death in the streets, killing would could become open common place, no one will believe because we have been lied to for so long.What keeps you from killing someone you hate?? The after life, Hell, take that away and what do you have........?
1. Why would proof of the existence of life on other planets disprove the afterlife,

and 2. If the afterlife is the ONLY thing stopping everyone from killing everyone, why aren't Atheists, or for that matter, modern Heathens, who believe that dying in battle is the method of getting to the best afterlife, a bunch of rampaging murderers?
 

tip top toker

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We'd probably close down half of our scientific space programs. Who the fuck would spend that much to get to space if some folk had already laid claim to the planets and as such minerals and shinies :D I'd love for some random guy to lay claim to mars somehow and just shoot down all nasa rockets etc for violating their airspace etc :D that would amuse me.

If they were more advanced than us, i think there wuoldn't probably be a meltdown, don't think the governments could accept that they're not the big guys with the big toys. I always enjoy films when the humans think hoooorah m16 and then get flattened by a mega ray, district 9 anyone? :lol:
 

Carne Seca

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They would be converted either to Islam or Christianity depending on who gets to them first. I put my money on the Mormons.
 

tip top toker

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They would be converted either to Islam or Christianity depending on who gets to them first. I put my money on the Mormons.
I think the catholics would give them a hell of a fight for dominant religion :D They've a bit of a brutal past when it comes to newly discovered lands :lol:
 

Zaehet Strife

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do aliens exist? im not sure, but with all this talk about it... gov. conspiracies hiding alien existence from us. planet neburu, planet size circular objects stationary (not orbiting) our sun. so called pyramid remnants on mars, the fabled face on mars. retired astronauts telling us that they personally believe aliens exist, and have experienced something that they cannot explain. i personally think they exist, but after you make that deduction you gotta really start thinking.

if they do exist, why havent they (the aliens) shown themselves?
ive thought about this a lot, and there are a few different theorys i have on this.

many people think that aliens genetically engineered humans from our great ancestor homoerectus 200,000 years ago, why? no one knows. do i believe this? im not sure, i just think that something is weird about humans. think about it, say we were created as an evolved species like everything else on the planet at the same time, dont you think that there would be at least one animal on the planet that has the ability to have conscious thought like us? how is it that humans are SOOOOO much more intelligent than any living creature on the planet if we evolved with every other living creature on the planet? how is it that our dna is 98% identical to apes, could it be that our genomes were genetically engineered? for what purpose? why would aliens do this?

first you have to try contemplate reasonably how an aliens mind works. IF aliens do exist, im a firm believer that the only way any race could acquire technology at that massive scale would be to have a near perfect society. for me its reasonable to say that with technology like that, without a bases for a perfect society it would destroy itself. so then you ask yourself, how is it possible for a perfect society to exist? im not sure, maybe they have the ability to block out emotions, maybe they've evolved past the point where emotions are of no use to them anymore.

so why would aliens make a race of intelligent beings? dont know, maybe we were originally created as slaves.. as time passed maybe the aliens saw that we had aquired some of their ability to think. maybe they tried to help us, (would explain hieroglyphs of light bulbs found in pyramids, the fucking pyramids themselves, your telling me humans created that without any help?) maybe after trying to help us they saw how we really were. that we hate, murder and steal. trying give us guidelines they gave us laws to abide by to try to help us even more (maybe how religion came about) as a mother soon finds out that she cant change her offspring, but must let them flourish and learn for themselves they left our planet.. and have been watching us and keeping us safe. until one day we either become as intelligent as them, or become a threat to them.

maybe we are slaves, have been slaves and always will be.

maybe we are just an experiment, like how a scientist would view cellular reproduction through a microscope

why would the government or higher ups hide the existence of aliens to the mass populace?
i have a few theory's for this one too, maybe they are all intertwined together somehow. the first i think is very simple, mass hysteria. there are so many people in the world so set by their beliefs that when you put a red block in front their eyes, the only thing they see or ever will see is a blue sphere. people are bliss in their ignorance, choosing ignorance instead of truth. there are too many people in the world like this, they wouldn't be able to understand or be able to accept it.

say your a nasa scientist, all your life you are the best of the best. you HAD to be the smartest to get to where you are, you are the smartest. no one has as much intelligence as you do, but one day your looking through your telescope and you see something in space looking back at you. maybe science cant accept the fact that there are creatures in the universe that are more intelligent as them, and there's nothing they can do about it.

how would normal humans react to this? the people who are supposed to be the smartest people in existence cant explain something?!?!?!

if aliens exist, that means we aren't the smartest creatures.. and we are very very very far from it. if aliens exist we are so low in the intelligence totem pole we would be considered 1celled organisms compred to these supercomputer brains the aliens must have in order to do the things they (supposedly) do.

how degrading is it not only as a person, but as a species in general to think that we are only an experiment, or that maybe were being used for some reason we dont know about. theres just too many people that wouldnt be able to accept that. too much ego in humans.

all i know is that something is def. different about humans compared to everything else on this planet... but our dna is so undeniably similer to everything else on the planet <--very weird to me. and that ive been getting this feeling lately that ive never felt before, like that something big is going to happen in my lifetime. weather it has to do with aliens, world war, famine, i have no idea.

i just love to think about this stuff you know, great topic i hope it keeps going and ive loved reading what everyone has to say.
 

RawBudzski

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It has been proven already, FYI hitler was obsessed with UFOs/Aliens, and thats not because he was totally crazy. the Question is, What would you do if you were aware?
 

Hardwire

Member
Aliens visiting earth? Can you say modern age plague? What immunities do you have to an alien cold? It will be the Native American incident all over again. Except, world wide. We have enough trouble containing H1N1.
 

Leothwyn

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^^ I guess you're assuming that they're time traveling humans? Even then, maybe they're so advanced that they've cured all disease. Seems more likely that they'd not even be biologically similar enough to us to share diseases. They might not even be carbon based. Of course those are all big 'ifs'... they might not even be interested enough in visiting a bunch of primitives on some random little planet. And, they might not exist.
 

Hardwire

Member
Yea. There are alot of assumptions there. Of all the biochemical make up of aliens my vote for coolness would go to metal.
Various metals, together with oxygen, can form very complex and thermally stable structures rivaling those of organic compounds; the heteropoly acids are one such family. Some metal oxides are also similar to carbon in their ability to form both nanotube structures and diamond-like crystals (such as cubic zirconia). Titanium, aluminum, magnesium and iron are all more abundant in the Earth's crust than carbon. Metal oxide-based life could therefore be a possibility under certain conditions, including those (such as high temperatures) at which carbon-based life would be unlikely.
 

karri0n

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Yea. There are alot of assumptions there. Of all the biochemical make up of aliens my vote for coolness would go to metal.
Yeah, but it wouldn't be as cool as it sounds. They wouldn't be all shiny and hard and awesome... they would be squishy and lifelike and crap like us :-(
 
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