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11. Best to run

Reply to Comatose Sphagetti (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2013, 09:43 PM

Jan 2013

and hide. They may have a death ray

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So, intelligent, non-hostile aliens land on earth... [View all] Comatose Sphagetti Jan 2013 OP

"A primitive and paranoid culture!" LongTomH Jan 2013 #1

+1 freshwest Jan 2013 #2

And there is a actual alien in the scene! whistler162 Jan 2013 #10

Yes...and I see two Jewish guys out for a walk... PCIntern Jan 2013 #25

Too much LDS. Nt awoke_in_2003 Jan 2013 #29

Did you mean Mormons or did you mean LSD? siligut Jan 2013 #32

In that movie... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2013 #33

That's funny siligut Jan 2013 #34

Truthfully.. awoke_in_2003 Jan 2013 #36

What I know about Mormons . . . siligut Jan 2013 #37

it must be nice to live in your world... n/t a geek named Bob Jan 2013 #3

I think the gun strapped to the teachers waist might be a bit harder to explain Fumesucker Jan 2013 #4

More likely indifferent rather than non-hostile. Kalidurga Jan 2013 #5

Actually, the idea that aliens would not themselves SheilaT Jan 2013 #6

Some of what you say would be pretty easy to figure out, for us muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #14

If they are so different that they see in a different spectrum, SheilaT Jan 2013 #35

The frequencies used for the spectrum don't really matter muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #39

that's the Howard Campbell meme hfojvt Jan 2013 #50

More like 3 million years Warpy Jan 2013 #7

Why do you assume such aliens wouldn't have political boundaries? jeff47 Jan 2013 #8

Because the US and the Russians have collaborated in Space exploration already. JoePhilly Jan 2013 #21

Not really - you're going to quickly stop getting resources from the planet jeff47 Jan 2013 #46

James P Hogan did it better. whistler162 Jan 2013 #9

Best to run kaboom15 Jan 2013 #11

Hypothetical alien threads make for the best cliched misanthropy. (nt) Posteritatis Jan 2013 #12

It's actually the complete opposite of misanthropy Turborama Jan 2013 #16

Nah. Standard "we all suck (except possibly me), the aliens in my head say so" thread. (nt) Posteritatis Jan 2013 #17

Nah. The thread arose from a philanthropic viewpoint. Standard pessimistic response. Comatose Sphagetti Jan 2013 #31

That's silly TlalocW Jan 2013 #13

What if... loose wheel Jan 2013 #15

If they arrive HERE first, the free market would dictate, no??? JoePhilly Jan 2013 #24

They talk to all the animals and agree to kill the humans to save the other species Coyotl Jan 2013 #18

That is probably the most thoughtful and introspective response anyone could have to the OP Taitertots Jan 2013 #20

They 'could' be metallovores, extremophiles, or obligate cannibals for all we know. Posteritatis Jan 2013 #23

"Sermonize"...Are you really going to defend humanities treatment of the living being on earth? Taitertots Jan 2013 #28

I'm really going to say calling "kill the humans" "thoughtful and introspective" was absurd muriel_volestrangler Jan 2013 #40

It was thoughtful and introspective... Taitertots Jan 2013 #45

Your position rests on the assumption that your independent observers are nicer than us. sibelian Jan 2013 #47

Any "Doctor Who" fans remember "Frontier in Space"? Nye Bevan Jan 2013 #19

Weren't the Vulcans and the Romulans originally from zbdent Jan 2013 #22

More likely response: napoleon_in_rags Jan 2013 #26

If the janitors don't open fire first and end your discussion prematurely SirRevolutionary Jan 2013 #27

What a naive bunch of aliens - are they edible? petronius Jan 2013 #30

Or maybe they'd be thinking the same thing about us! nt Buns_of_Fire Jan 2013 #44

Depends on whether they have a cookbook entitled "How to Serve Mankind". RC Jan 2013 #53

no, the fundies would get to them.... Rosco T. Jan 2013 #38

National borders and nationalism are necessary .... Scuba Jan 2013 #41

If they were intelligent, they'd have enough sense not to land. hobbit709 Jan 2013 #42

If for no other reason than our competing microbes would kill both of us off. RC Jan 2013 #54

I have come to the conclusion that. aandegoons Jan 2013 #43

"someone finds a way to set the atmosphere on fire" sibelian Jan 2013 #48

It could be done with enough energy. aandegoons Jan 2013 #55

If such a thing actually happened RomneyLies Jan 2013 #49

Why would you assume intelligent aliens would be space explorers? NoOneMan Jan 2013 #51

I am almost certain they would be pretty impressed with our ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #52