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If aliens were hovering about the earth attempting to make first contact, who would you choose to represent humanity and why?
Would you choose a world leader?
Would you choose a great mind?
Do you think there would be fighting amongst which country should make 'first contact'?
Wooo what would happen?
Blaaaaaaaaaaa! Merry Sausagemas, may you swallow plenty this week!
If they landed in China they would be assimilated.
If they landed in America they would be annihilated.
If they landed in Thailand they would be masturbated.
If they landed in Britain they would be politely flagellated.
They can't go to France, because the air traffic control would make sure they were diverted.
Ireland would be best, because to a bar they would be invited .
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Erm.... sorry. It is Friday night after all
icnif77:
Wouldn't be a problem with 'No surrender' tag on the bar's entrance?
philbravery:
@icnif7 this topic would be right up your alley or in this case .....Planet
A small tribe living on the land somewhere, who don't care about the new iphone or what the popular stock on Wall street is doing. Maybe some Australian Aboriginal people who still walk around in the desert living in harmony with nature.
Any 'modern developed' culture would just come across as ridiculous when they try to explain that the environment needs to be polluted because otherwise the economy will suffer and company XYZ will lose x points on the stock exchange.
If I was an alien I'd be looking to wipe us out and let the other mammals have a go at running the planet.
laowaigentleman:
And they'd be baffled by the contemporary mindset that the best and brightest minds aspire to go into finance rather than science so they can accumulate paper which allows them to claim ownership of pockets of land and rather than live on the land and try to contribute to human progress through investigation, contemplation and discovery, speculate that a greater fool will pay more money for said land in the future and use this assumption as collateral to borrow more paper and perpetuate the folly even further all across the world.
ScotsAlan:
Sting would probably adopt them, do a fund raiser, and then lobby the UN to allow them to be left in peace without outside influences.
Aliens could be a marine life form in a suit full of water. Or they can be a blob of jelly. They might use light signals, ultra sound... I think you would need a team of cryptologist, to help decipher the language of the aliens. Math can be a good start to communicate and form a common language.
ScotsAlan:
In that case they should land in the UK. Plenty of sea, and the Pi is excellent. Especially the steak and kidney Pi .
What makes you think they haven't been here for a while? Could be those aliens feed on negative emotions... and have been creating such conditions for those negative emotions for a LONG time!
Or, they thrive on what we consider 'pollution'... hence why we've had the technology to radically reduce the pollution we're causing - but are not implementing it!
icnif77:
I concur! I'm just not sure, are they aliens or they are human clones with 'improved' genes.
I met a guy once who believed a story that the Chinese invaded Tibet so they could hide an alien crash site. He continued to tell me that Asians are basically alien-human hybrids on a mission to take over the world. He pointed out the similarities of their slender, small bodies, slanted black eyes and other features the Little Gray Men share with Asians.
If the Chinese represent the backbone of this alien takeover, I'm not scared at all. But I wouldn't want to meet their alien progenitors. It would explain how some people are so clueless how to cooperate, show human affection, use common sense, achieve success and so on.
Hmmm... maybe I'm in the mood for some old Twilight Zone or X-Files reruns!
Shining_brow:
Don't you think the "lack of human affection" is rather telling??
Robk:
That may be true... but what is also true is the Caucasians are mutants.
Our skin, eyes and hair are different colors because of genetic mutants caused by lack of Melanin or something.
Supposedly years of living in the cold (Nords, Scandianvians etc.) caused these changes. Hybird-aliens and mutants are running the world!!
coineineagh:
As a Master in Evolutionary Biology, I'd ask you not to use the term 'mutants' if you don't know what your talking about. Mutation is such a broad term that 'mutant' (outside of a strict academic shorthand) doesn't mean anything at all. Leave the term mutants for comic books about radioactive green goo. Our appearance is the result of a selective process in the colder regions, and it's much preferable over having a neotenized Asian face, IMHO. Our hair, skin and eye pigmentation are indeed reduced, but part of this served a purpose: It allows our skin to metabolize chemicals using sunlight. Dark skinned people won't have any problem forming vitamin E in their bodies in sunny equatorial regions, but dark skin in the cold north will lead to vitamin deficiency. Black people living north often experience this if they neglect to consume enough vitamin E; their skin will start looking grayish and 'dead' - in fact it's reducing its own melanin to allow better metabolism. Eye colour isn't as functional as skin/hair, because it's merely a (usually) harmless deleterious gene. The main problem is that blue irises can't block out very bright sunlight: Everyone was baffled why I became all teary-eyed during my wedding photoshoot - the photographers were enhancing the bright midday sun with mirrors beaming straight into my poor blue eyes. Blue eyes is a recessive trait, that's why you'll never have a blue-eyed child with a fully Chinese person. But you can have light-skinned and light-haired ones, as my two sons demonstrate. Green/Gray eye colour is yet another gene that is more complex, and can skip generations in expressing itself: My mom has light brown brown eyes (1 dominant brown, 1 recessive blue allele); my dad green (2 recessive blue alleles, and gene for green colour); I have blue eyes (2 recessive blue alleles, green eye gene present but not expressed); my wife has dark brown/black eyes (2 dominant brown alleles); my 1st son has light brown (1 brown 1 blue); and my 2nd son has grayish-brown eyes (1 brown 1 blue, and green gene expressed but obscured by brown).
Ummm... I am pretty sure aliens look at us like we look at ants... no threat and fun to watch us scuttle around.
coineineagh:
If I look at ants I feel scared, because that means an ant colony is within range of me, and the ants will be returning if they can find food. I'll pour some cleaning chemical on the floor to keep them away from me. I'll expect to be drowned in a flood of Mr. Muscle or bleach if aliens make it to Earth.