What If Aliens Landed On Our Doorstep?

[Axis]

AVATAR WAR OF THE WORLDS I AM LEGEND SIGNS ALIEN MOVIES LOL

 

[monkeystyle]

I would react like the rest of society. We all would. We would likely assume inferiority and humble ourselves into submission. Mankind has frequently been faced by the challenge of being confronted by foreign people. At one point, it was the tribe on the other side of the river, then the tribe across the mountain range, then the society across the sea. Any civilization across space would be no different. However, those were other people--familiar to us, at least relatively. Humans assume superiority over other humans. However, as any sort of literature, art, or popular culture indicates, humans are scared of unknown beings. Aliens are always depicted as being more powerful and more intelligent. We would try to make peace; not in the name of peace, but in the name of fear. If the aliens had no interest in peace, but in domination, we would no longer humble ourselves. We would fight.

I disagree with you. I believe that since survival is the most powerful human instinct the alien's intentions, be it peaceful or otherwise, would be irrelevant. You say that a peaceful approach would cause a subservient reaction in humans due to fear and this is where I disagree. Fear of something more advanced or "powerful" than us will stir up deep rooted feelings of insecurity in us (this would be a natural response to being the 'top dog' for so long and having that power balance upset literally overnight) and will cause us to aggressively react to such a visit.

In other words we'd kill it, cut it up, study it and any technology we could get our hands on without paying any heed to the consequences of our actions. And why? Because when humans feel scared and threatened we rely on our survival instincts and our survival instinct is vicious.

 

[Axis]

See, but every other time in human history that we've been scared and killed as a reaction, we still assumed superiority. We were scared because of the unknown, not because of an assumption that our new enemies (native americans, foreign immigrants, what have you) were better than us. With aliens from outer space, I think that humans would automatically assume that they were far more powerful than us, if for no other reason than that is they have been portrayed in popular cultures for centuries. And it wouldn't necessarily be an unwarranted belief. In the example, the fact that the aliens found us means that they had the technology to travel across galaxies, while we do not. That would automatically give them an advantage over us, and create the picture (true or not) that they were far more powerfully. Now, if we were the ones to travel galatically and came across aliens, that would be a different story.

 

[Quintastic One]

Oh Hai Doomsday, fancy meeting you here in a section of the board where you do not belong.

 

[KenFan4life]

If Aliens landed on our Doorstep...like my litleral doorstep?

....GOD! I would go batshit crazy with my xfile's posters and glow in the dark pens and I would get autographs and hip hop top in circles.

but seriously, I'd phone the government, and try to get an exchange.... I shut up, they get the aliens/technolodgy stuff, then I get a free kickass house(complete with a game room), a state of the art dsl(no lag on xboxlive), a football field and a wrestling ring in my back yard....lifetime supply of tombstone pizzas, and a plasma screen tv the size of a pickup truck.

 

[Pat Patterson]

I would invite them in for cosmos, maybe wine and cheese.

 

[GardenStateSaint]

....GOD! I would go batshit crazy with my xfile's posters and glow in the dark pens and I would get autographs and hip hop top in circles.

but seriously, I'd phone the government, and try to get an exchange.... I shut up, they get the aliens/technolodgy stuff, then I get a free kickass house(complete with a game room), a state of the art dsl(no lag on xboxlive), a football field and a wrestling ring in my back yard....lifetime supply of tombstone pizzas, and a plasma screen tv the size of a pickup truck.

The 1st idea is just as silly as the second idea.

I'd probably invite them in, seeing as how I probably wouldn't have a real choice. Now Jehovah's witnesses being invited in is a different story!

 

[Pat Patterson]

I would suck all of their dicks!

 

[Wrestling Station]

If there was a Na'vi with a fine ass on my doorstep, one thing's for sure: I'd try to fuck her!

.

I'd Quote Eddie Murphy "If the bitch is green, then there is something wrong with the pussy!"

 

[GardenStateSaint]

Eddie Murphy never said anything about blue aliens!!!!!!!!

 

[Colin Gimp]

What if Aliens landed on planet Earth? First thing i'd ask if their way is vaginal birth. I do think sex is life for what it's worth. What if they were super intelligent and lightyears ahead, would they break off a piece of that bread? Did they come from a gassy planet that made their skin green? What if they had a Queen named christine who's only fourteen doing the obscene routine i'm bored i'll use my time machines passing our serene submarine pounding like a sewing machine. Either that or they lay eggs and have 8 legs, Predator type motherfucker looking for another sucker. Or maybe you just can't travel through space no efficient way to give constant chase, would it be all that bad if we were stuck on a prisoner's base? I'd embrace, you'd all show disgrace. Be proud of her embrace all her firs,be mother earth's chauffeur, that's what we'd all prefer. Fuck the rest and that's not a indirect request, now let that digest don't go in cardiac arrest, fuck the contest and be one with her, this is all that i suggest

i love you earth