Some freak UFO footage. - Page 7

On July 16 2010 00:37 LaSt)ChAnCe wrote:


maybe we are the only alien race to send out radio signals/space ships etc

On July 16 2010 00:56 Empyrean wrote:


I'm actually arguing from our perspective. From our current understanding of physics, ftl travel is impossible. To argue that it's possible given much more advanced technology is a dangerous argument to make, because it opens the doors for literally anything to be possible, as long as it's sufficiently advanced technologically.

On July 16 2010 01:00 Ossian wrote:

they would have invisibility long before they had FTL travel (I would say FTL is impossible but w/e) so there's no reasonable argument for them being there; either they don't want to be found and they use invisibility -> we can't see them
or they do want to be seen in which case they could just land at the nearest public place and introduce themselves

On July 16 2010 01:00 jello_biafra wrote:

Or they've already explored all of the inner galaxy and now it's time for them to pay us a visit.

Interesting event here, probably some kind of weird military ship that went off course or something, don't think it's likely to be an alien craft but the possibility is there :O

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But lets say some aliens manages to get here, how come they are always the same size as us? The chances of that happening is so slim it'd be more likley for us to start a zombie apocalypse.

On July 16 2010 01:01 travis wrote:


That's not the entirety of the argument, though. Even if FTL travel isn't possible, it still doesn't take into account alternative methods. Worm holes, warp drives, shifts in matter state, etc

On July 16 2010 01:08 Go0g3n wrote:
I would guess, that if aliens exist and do have the technology and means to get to Earth (or wherever) in reasonable time, they are probably holding us to the level of ants.

Humans for the most part don't interact with less intelligent forms of life, why should they?

On July 16 2010 01:08 Empyrean wrote:


Curiosity? Remember burning ants with a magnifying glass when you were little?

On July 16 2010 01:11 Go0g3n wrote:


Well, that was probably it, fly over in a craft, flick on a bright light, observe the reaction and fly out.

On July 16 2010 01:08 Go0g3n wrote:
I would guess, that if aliens exist and do have the technology and means to get to Earth (or wherever) in reasonable time, they are probably holding us to the level of ants.

Humans for the most part don't interact with less intelligent forms of life, why should they? All we do with animals is observe and exploit for our benefit, so it should work out about the same for them.

On July 16 2010 01:08 Go0g3n wrote:
I would guess, that if aliens exist and do have the technology and means to get to Earth (or wherever) in reasonable time, they are probably holding us to the level of ants.

Humans for the most part don't interact with less intelligent forms of life, why should they? All we do with animals is observe and exploit for our benefit, so it should work out about the same for them.

On July 16 2010 01:12 Ossian wrote:
if they had the technology to travel to earth in reasonable time they would also not need to use what we call the visible spectra to observe us; they'd be watching us in any number of frequencies most likely not 'visible light' simply because it pierces almost nothing and gives them almost no information; also they'd use a fucking camera not a huge array of spotlights on the underside of their ship

On July 16 2010 01:18 jello_biafra wrote:

You're assuming though that these aliens will actually be more intelligent and evolved than us, when in fact they may have the same mental capacity as human beings and it's just their technology that's allowed them to accomplish what they have. They wouldn't necessarily consider us as the level of ants but perhaps in the same kind of way we'd consider tribes people who'd never had any contact with civilization or the outside world.

On July 16 2010 01:23 Aeronor wrote:


It would be more likely that this alien race is completely different from us in thought and mind (having taken completely separate steps of evolution), and so we would both probably seem somewhat animalistic to each other.

The fact that they have incredibly high technology levels would reinforce this especially on their side. They may not mean us any harm, but we would be considered lesser beings. The lesser beings are always made to serve the greater, just look at cattle, fish, plants, even bacteria.

Interaction between two alien races of drastically different technological levels would most likely mean bad news for the lesser advanced race. Even if the aliens were largely benevolent (like the first Europeans to America) they still pose massive economic and physical danger to the inhabitants. Eventually the less developed people are either assimilated or destroyed, it has happened many many times when cultures collide. And that's the same species.