I`m sure that I am not the only person who has ever looked up at the stars at night, thinking to myself ``someone is out there, looking up at me as I look up at them``. Now, considering the size of the Milky way galaxy alone, there must be somewhere out in space other than Earth where life has developped. Now, hypothetically, let`s say that we were to run into said an advanced alien civilization. What would be the implications? How would a cultural exchange work between our two races when there are numerous cultures on Earth, and possibly on their planet. What about exopolitics and economic? Would peace be an option, or would a war be inevitable? There are endless possibilities here people, so voice your opinions please.
Discuss
Bruce Allen on January 24, 2008, 10:07 AM
I can only imagine that they would reach for the ray-guns and quickly try to revise their religious-beliefs.
Perhaps the subtlety here is, “Did we discover them, or did they discover us?”.
Nick S on January 24, 2008, 11:12 PM
There once was a great book I read, I have searched for years to find it again with no luck. The title was “Behold the Red Planet” The story was phenomonal, Basically we originated on Mars, But as such an advanced civialtion we destroyed our planet and needed to find somewhere else, Enter Earth. We brought with us the technologies from Mars which allowed us to create the great Pyramids, and the others, but lacking the resources we had on Mars, we reverted back to living in caves and losing all our knowledge. But once again we are grow advanced, and once again paying the price. We are killing this planet with our Cancerous tendencies, but this time we have no other planet to flee to. Mother nature is trying to fight back, to save herself, but I feel that in the end we both will lose this war.
Bruce Allen on January 25, 2008, 2:48 AM
Rezz — Can’t agree with your last comment. My money is on Mother-Nature every time [g].
John Zawacki on January 27, 2008, 10:05 PM
My Ray-Gun is bigger than yours Cosmos!
I think it would be exciting and scarey and you just need to look at human history to guess how we might behave under those circumstances.
Chris Watson on April 1, 2008, 9:31 PM
Unfortunately, I have to say that given our own history, war would be inevitable. In a way, we have already discovered alien life-forms. Think about the exploration of our own world… the current America’s is a perfect example.
The Eastern world ran into a culture of people very unlike themselves while exploring Earth… The Native Americans. What happened? War.
Maybe there was a feeling of superiority over the Native Americans. Combined with greed of new lands and new riches, it was only a matter of time until war would break out.
The real answer hangs on this question… If we discovered an alien civilization, and were inferior to their race, would they go to war with us?
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