NationStates Jolt Archive

Okay, sooner or later, mankind is going to leave the Solar System and join the galactic community.

So the question is this; What should the Galactic Government do about it?

SHould they greet us warmly? Send diplomats and allow Earth ambassadors to join the Galactic Board of Legislators?

Or should they blast our first interstellar ship with a laser cannon before we spread?

Me, I'm thinking laser cannon. :p

If they've glanced even the smallest glance at us for like a day, they'll soon realize that we'll just destroy the entire galaxy in our attempt to live big and live good.

Therefore, we create our own galaxy. Right next to theirs. Then we'll introduce them to a little thing called capitalism.

They'd welcome us. They were just as bad has we are once.

They'd welcome us. They were just as bad has we are once.

That's probably why they'll know to zap us.

greetings aliens! hugs and fluffles from the Earth Delegation Chief Hippie :fluffle:

I'm thinking that Aliens don't really give a shit about other Aliens. The universe is a big place, and flying about takes a lot of time and energy.

I'd think that for practical purposes, every race probably would keep to itself a bit, and actual contact really only happens if there is competition for a habitable planet - considering the sheer number of planets it's probably rather unlikely.

Which means that it's up to humanity to start a galactic community in the first place! ;)

We would eventually rule the galaxy if they left us to it, so if I were them, zap us now and get it over with.

Something just occuored to me, and since there are some giant sci fi nerds bouncing around here maybe they can help me out, providing I didn't just offend their pasty asses...

There have been stories where our broadcasts and stuff have reached other civilizations (I'm thinking Contact where they send back the first tv broadcast and Futurama where the Omicronians watch Single Female Laywer) or ones where they find Voyager or we re-find Voyager (Star Trek:The Movie)

But, what about the other way around? What if we started picking up garbage transmissions from the entertainment of another civilization? Or if their probe deally with random facts about them popped up?

I'm sure, with the mass of sci-fi in existance, someone has to have touched on this.

greetings aliens! hugs and fluffles from the Earth Delegation Chief Hippie :fluffle:
Now that will ensure our imminent destruction.

Something just occuored to me, and since there are some giant sci fi nerds bouncing around here maybe they can help me out, providing I didn't just offend their pasty asses...

There have been stories where our broadcasts and stuff have reached other civilizations (I'm thinking Contact where they send back the first tv broadcast and Futurama where the Omicronians watch Single Female Laywer) or ones where they find Voyager or we re-find Voyager (Star Trek:The Movie)

But, what about the other way around? What if we started picking up garbage transmissions from the entertainment of another civilization? Or if their probe deally with random facts about them popped up?

I'm sure, with the mass of sci-fi in existance, someone has to have touched on this.

Arthur C. Clarke. The Rama novels. *nod*

That's probably why they'll know to zap us.

meh... yeah... good point

Arthur C. Clarke. The Rama novels. *nod*
Should have thought it'd be Clarke that would've thought of this...

Simple. We just send Lunatic Goofballs out as our first ambassador. The aliens will spend the next seventeen millennia focusing all of their resources into trying to figure him out, leaving plenty of time for the rest of us to build condominiums throughout the galaxy.

:p

Oh my, what are we to do? The Aliens must have received all of our television and radio broadcasts from the last 70 years. Now that's bad.

Remember "Contact"?

I hope that if there is intelligent life out there they will avoid any contact with our hostile little blue planet... out of self-interest. Any technology they might offer will inevitably be turned into a weapon of some sort - that's just human nature I fear.

But we know how it goes...

First you're http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/space.gif and then return either as http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/spider.gif or http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/robot.gif

Should have thought it'd be Clarke that would've thought of this...

It's about a series of ever more complex probes that are sent through our solar system. In the second or third book, some people exploring it actually stay aboard and ride it on it's journey.

Simple. We just send Lunatic Goofballs out as our first ambassador. The aliens will spend the next seventeen millennia focusing all of their resources into trying to figure him out, leaving plenty of time for the rest of us to build condominiums throughout the galaxy.

:p

I'll keep them busy as long as I can.

I hope you appreciate the sacrifice! Do you know how many anal probes this means?!? :eek:

Arthur C. Clarke. The Rama novels. *nod*
I thought the whole purpose of the Rama stuff was a way of gathering other races to central areas. I don't really know, the third one of those was boring as Hell. The only book about people being trapped in a small place where I got Cabin Fever before the characters.

Anyway, why does everyone think that the Aliens will have some sort of superculture that surpasses ours in everyway? A species that has unified itself to the point that there is no more war or strife would just fall apart and atrophy. Without strife to keep them on their toes, they'd decay, splinter up and fall into a dark age. Nah, if we encounter another race they'll either A) Be different from us in some way so fundamental we'd never understand each other (and might not even recognize them as an actual living or sentient race) or B) We'd be pretty similar socially, with several nations and periodic fights to keep everyone current on whose bitch is whose.

I'll keep them busy as long as I can.

I hope you appreciate the sacrifice! Do you know how many anal probes this means?!? :eek:

Perhaps you should get Fass to help deal with them?
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[Homeworld reference] Contain use to our own planet and make sure we never leave. [/Homeworld reference]

It is far from likely that such beings will even possess the capacity for anything analogous to human curiosity.