If we discovered extraterrestrial life...

[Holofoil]

One of the questions in my Physics GCSE was "should we spend money on searching for extra-terestial life?".

This made me wonder... What would actually happen if we did find life out there? Would we go say hello? Unite together? And then it occured to me that if we actually did discover life out there... There would be a mass debate as to whether we should introduce ourselves, or simply attack them.

Attack them? Why ever would we do that?
Think about it. So many of us fear the unknown. Since the dawn of time Earth has been the only planet we know is home to intelligent life. A totally new race of intelligent aliens - which we know nothing about? So many of us, me being one of them, would just be terrified of the thought...

I'm pretty sure there would be people insisting that we should wipe them out before they even get the chance to attack us (And of course, it would be the same situation with them).

No, there's no reason why we should harm them when we don't even know them, and there is no reason why we should take prejudism to the extreme, but I think the sheer amount of paranoia amongst us Humans would outweigh this good nature. "What if they attack us?" "It's for our own safety!" "We don't have time to see if they're safe to meet!".

I mean come on, if America and Russia are paranoid that they're about to attack eachother, what are they going to think of a brand new race of creatures?

Opinions?

[bo$$]

Aliens are already here.

but um
I think when we start discovering extraterrestrial life, we'll all be shocked, confused, etc. and do what scientists do with everything else.. test them.

[Holofoil]

What if they try test us? They may well have the same mindset about aliens as us. We're aliens to them.

[bo$$]

That's true.
I guess we'll just have to wait to see.. but I really do believe at some point in life we WILL see these so called "aliens"
I don't think they'll be those green skins, 100 eyed creatures from movies, but they'll be normal - like us.. sorta.

and tbh, some sort of test for SOME race will go down because humans are too ignorant to just leave **** alone.

Scientists can't go two minutes with extracting eggs, fertilizing them with weird ****, changing species, mixing species, creating viruses, destroying them, etc., etc., etc. but I guess that's just life.. We'd be no where if we didn't do testing for all these kinds of things.. but thats beyond the point.

My only fear is that a large amount of people who are ignorant and won't be able to accept it will try and attack these 'aliens' and we'll all be ******.

[FlyingJesus]

If any aliens as in the classic type who are a civilisation elsewhere came close enough for us to find, they'd be so advanced that we'd stand no actual chance against them. We'd be dead or slaves.

[Virgin Mary]

But people always ask why UFOs would come to earth. If sightings are true then they're obviously observing us.

[Holofoil]

I read a funny artcle in the NewScientist the other day. Scientists here are useing the most up to date technology to 'listen' for any life out there. But one Scientist pointed out, that if the aliens were anything like us, they'd also be listening out for aliens (us).
The point is, we're all sitting quietly waiting to hear something, and no one's making any noise to be heard.

But do we really want to make a noise?

[N-Dubz]

But people always ask why UFOs would come to earth. If sightings are true then they're obviously observing us.

Thats true.
If you looked up some famous UFO sightings on youtube you'd notice whatever the things they fly in are so fast lol. We would stand no chance towards them, there obviously so advanced in technology that we'd stand no chance if they wanted to kill us/attack us.
To me, seems like they've found us already - but we are having trouble finding them.. :rolleyes:

[N!ck]

We'd be friendly towards them. We're constantly sending out friendly signals/messages on all freguencies etc. anyway in hope of extrerestrial ife finding us. There's a lot of speculation that extraterestrial life would be like reptilians and lizard type creatures.

[AndrewByrne]

There probely saying the same thing
But I don't thinks it fair that WE kill them? :S
Is'nt that called mass murder?