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indigenous says

One question though, for them to come here I would assume it would take a very long time, (the universe isn't as small as it once was) and a very long time to get back, what is in it for them?

I am sure the aliens have figured out how to quickly and efficiently travel:

("CNN) -- Thanks to a NASA physicist, the notion of warp speed might just travel out of sci-fi and into the real world.

NASA's Harold White has been working since 2010 to develop a warp drive that will allow spacecraft to travel at speeds faster than light -- 186,000 miles per second.

White, who heads NASA's Advanced Propulsion Team, spoke about his conceptual starship at a conference last fall. But interest in his project reached a new level this week when he unveiled images of what the craft might look like…

...He discussed the idea of a "space warp," a loophole in the theory of general relativity that would allow for massive distances to be traveled very quickly, reducing travel times from thousands of years to days.

In his speech, White described space warps as faraway galaxies that can bend light around them. They work on the principle of bending space both in front of and behind a spacecraft. This would essentially allow for the empty space behind the craft to expand, both pushing and pulling it forward at the same time. The concept is similar to that of an escalator or moving walkway...

...The warp drive that White's team has been working on would literally transcend space, shortening the distance between two points and allowing the craft to break the speed of light. This would be a spaceship with no speed limit."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/tech/innovation/warp-speed-spaceship/

Indiana Jones says

I am sure the aliens have figured out how to quickly and efficiently travel:

When should we expect the Vulcans, now that we have discovered warp?

I need a picture of how that might work.

SETI is way off base. Unless the radio signal is a significant fraction of a star's strength, it wouldn't get here from even our closest neighbors. Hell, even sending a signal from the outer planets takes a huge amount of juice.
If we want to detect alien communications, we need to develop a new form of communication, maybe quantum or Planck-space methods that would send information instantaneously around the universe. Then we'd have a shot at talking to the ETs who got there first.

New Renter says

we have no idea what technique the aliens may be using. Without that knowledge we have little hope of recognizing an alien broadcast.

Didn't you all see the movie Contact with Jodie Foster? In this movie they taught us that SETI is useless, the aliens are far advanced in communication techniques, and that we don't have to get into a spaceship to have "contact".

If SETI were going to have "contact", you'd think at this point it'd have already happened. Besides being a front or cover story, I can't think of why they are still trying to contact aliens by "radio".

It's very arrogant to assume that alien intelligence will visit us and want to attack us. Whatever for? Why would you potentially enter a fight over some resources that are entirely typical all over the galaxy? If you want minerals, gold, water, whatever, you can get all that easily from any solar system and from asteroids, no need to go too far. In order to travel between the stars, you need such a high level of technology and productivity, that maybe civilizations which reach this point aren't the galactic scourge sort we see in sci-fi films.

The Drake equation guesstimates that there are many planets with life, and even many with intelligence (http://www.gizmag.com/extraterrestrial-life-milky-way/32476/)

Also, read about the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/the-fermi-paradox_b_5489415.html)

myob says

It's very arrogant to assume that alien intelligence will visit us and want to attack us. Whatever for? Why would you potentially enter a fight over some resources that are entirely typical all over the galaxy? If you want minerals, gold, water, whatever, you can get all that easily from any solar system and from asteroids, no need to go too far. In order to travel between the stars, you need such a high level of technology and productivity, that maybe civilizations which reach this point aren't the galactic scourge sort we see in sci-fi films.

The Drake equation guesstimates that there are many planets with life, and even many with intelligence (http://www.gizmag.com/extraterrestrial-life-milky-way/32476/)

Also, read about the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/the-fermi-paradox_b_5489415.html)

Why would technologically advanced aliens want to visit us? You may as well ask why scientists study bacteria and slime molds. Even we can learn quite a bit from the simplest life forms the earth has to offer.

As for natural resources its possible what we consider precious and worth killing each other for is just trash to ET.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/a-planet-made-of-diamond-twice-the-size-of-earth/blogEntry?id=17454471

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101217571

Quigley says

SETI is way off base. Unless the radio signal is a significant fraction of a star's strength, it wouldn't get here from even our closest neighbors. Hell, even sending a signal from the outer planets takes a huge amount of juice.

Actually that is not true. The voyager probes only broadcast 23 watts and we can hear them just fine:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question431.htm

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Put Oprah on top of the Goodyear blimp, face down with her ass all greased up with transmission fluid in the middle of the day. When the sun hits her ass, trillions of extraterrestrials will get tentacle stiffies and warp out to get here and bum blast the shit out of her.

Coming up next, a very special episode of Maury!

New Renter says

Why would technologically advanced aliens want to visit us?

Note, that I said why would they attack us, in response to the original post. Visting for science makes absolute sense. We're searching for extraterrestial life just to find it too.

myob says

New Renter says

Why would technologically advanced aliens want to visit us?

Note, that I said why would they attack us, in response to the original post. Visting for science makes absolute sense. We're searching for extraterrestial life just to find it too.

Sorry, my bad.

Of course they may attack us anyway for many reasons. Look at us, we are arguably the most advanced species on the planet by far and what do we do with that capability? All it takes is one alien kid with a giant magnifying glass and its goodnight Gracie!

http://www.dailytech.com/Stephen+Hawking+Says+Aliens+Probably+Out+There+Will+Want+to+Conquer+Us/article18222.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War

Links to enjoy while waiting for the arrival of our alien (or robot) overlords.

komputodo says

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Put Oprah on top of the Goodyear blimp, face down with her ass all greased up with transmission fluid in the middle of the day. When the sun hits her ass, trillions of extraterrestrials will get tentacle stiffies and warp out to get here and bum blast the shit out of her.

LOL.....any specific reason for tranny fluid?

Plus the smell!

http://www.petroleumhistory.org/OilHistory/pages/Whale/oil_uses.html

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

rillions of extraterrestrials will get tentacle stiffies and warp out to get here and bum blast the shit out of her.

It would be like King Kong on the Empire State building, with UFO's firing on Oprah Butt and each other to gain access.

She might twerk de-tentacle them, though, and force them to destroy the planet.

Why are you disparaging Oprah? She was gonna give us all cars - you get a car, you get a car, EVERYBODY GETS A CAR! Except we don't....

And you Apolcalyspefucked it. I hope you're happy.

Might be visited?

Happens all the time, man. They're falling out of the skies like flies. Chariots of the Gods, man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know.

elliemae says

And you Apolcalyspefucked it. I hope you're happy.

Oprah is so powerful, she can capture anti gravity technology with her blockbuster butt. Then, we all get UFOs instead of crappy, dirty cars.

She knows how those aliens can't resist butt.

There are signs in space directing aliens to earth. All the signs say,ZOO.

We'd have a sale on terrestials....

ohomen171 says

What Would Really Happen If Earth Were Visited By Extraterrestials

This is a vast conspiracy to ripoff DirecTV and distribute to all congressmen..

Indiana Jones says

If SETI were going to have "contact", you'd think at this point it'd have already happened. Besides being a front or cover story, I can't think of why they are still trying to contact aliens by "radio".

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APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

I know extraterrestrials would seek out and assfuck Oprah.

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APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Ceffer says

elliemae says

And you Apolcalyspefucked it. I hope you're happy.

Oprah is so powerful, she can capture anti gravity technology with her blockbuster butt. Then, we all get UFOs instead of crappy, dirty cars.

She knows how those aliens can't resist butt.

Her butt is so IMMENSE it creates its own gravity!

All butts generate their own gravity.

While all butts do have a black hole it takes a very special butt to generate a singularity.

Man, I'd hate to see the crack in that event horizon!

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zzyzzx says

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

I know extraterrestrials would seek out and assfuck Oprah.

Obligatory:

I drove through Baker, CA last weekend and I was led to believe the aliens would make jerky of them first!

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostikovitch says

Oprah better worry about the BUM BITING ALIENS from outer space who react in savage lust to the gleam of her ass when she floating around on the Goodyear Blimp.

Because they are coming!

Can the Goodyear blimp handle that?

I think your plan woudl take a Zeppelin. A Zeppelin filled with more buoyant hydrogen.

As an added bonus the Zeppelin woudl double as a grill.

New Renter says

All butts generate their own gravity.

While all butts do have a black hole it takes a very special butt to generate a singularity.

Man, I'd hate to see the crack in that event horizon!

This is why, as AF has pointed out so adroitly, that the term "Massive Hirsute Lesbian" is incorrect, whereas "Immense Hirsute Lesbian" is appropriate.

It is possible for a hirsute lesbian to be microscopic, like a lesbian black hole, and still be massive, while immense suggests both large size as well as inertia.

ohomen171 says

What Would Really Happen If Earth Were Visited By Extraterrestials

ohomen171 says

What Would Really Happen If Earth Were Visited By Extraterrestials

They would just nuke us from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Drop a few thousand neutron bombs. Irradiate all life. Humans are gone within days if not hours. All infrastructure is left untouched.

Send in robots to take control of all facilities and maintain them, producing any economic output desired. Wait a few hundred years before colonizing and the radiation is gone. Meanwhile, robots can terraform the plant and build colonies.

We would not even know about the existence of the aliens until the bombardment of neutron bombs.

ohomen171 says

What Would Really Happen If Earth Were Visited By Extraterrestials

Conservatives would build a wall. Problem solved.

Dan8267 says

They would just nuke us from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Nukes? Too expensive to build/transport.

Replicators on the other hand, you only need one and local resources.

The Department of the Interior and the Supreme Court have declared Oprah's butt an alien sanctuary.

Dan8267 says

ohomen171 says

What Would Really Happen If Earth Were Visited By Extraterrestials

They would just nuke us from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Drop a few thousand neutron bombs. Irradiate all life. Humans are gone within days if not hours. All infrastructure is left untouched.

Send in robots to take control of all facilities and maintain them, producing any economic output desired. Wait a few hundred years before colonizing and the radiation is gone. Meanwhile, robots can terraform the plant and build colonies.

We would not even know about the existence of the aliens until the bombardment of neutron bombs.

Vicente says

Dan8267 says

They would just nuke us from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Nukes? Too expensive to build/transport.

Replicators on the other hand, you only need one and local resources.

You're both way off base.

All that would have to be done is slightly deflect the path of a large object (asteroid, comet really anything will do) to impact the earth. It might take a few years for the object to hit us but we'd never see it coming or if we did it would be far to late to do anything about it.

The aliens would just sit back and enjoy the show. They could even claim it was a tragic, but natural event.

New Renter says

All that would have to be done is slightly deflect the path of a large object (asteroid, comet really anything will do) to impact the earth. It might take a few years for the object to hit us but we'd never see it coming or if we did it would be far to late to do anything about it.

The aliens would just sit back and enjoy the show. They could even claim it was a tragic, but natural event.

Unfortunately for us, the aliens were attacked by a planet called Earf and their retarded president has decided to retaliate against Earth. Close enough.

Vicente says

They're falling out of the skies like flies.

Hahaha!! That's a funny line. I heard it once in a television show 20 or 30 years ago, where some UFO investigators were asking a hillbilly if he had seen anything unusual in the sky, like a flying saucer. He gave them the laconic answer, "They're falling out of the skies like flies," as if it were a daily occurrence, nothing special at all.

Way too much inconsistency for extra terrestrial. If you were to believe every story there are just to much Alien diversity. It would seem the only greater than the innovation in their technology. The alien life forms so diverse from hapless intelligent slime, to monsters, to various body types and sizes. The space ships are too varied and assorted. Nobody has never described the same spaceship. No pictures have never been the same. Unless it was mass sighting of lights. Which come on, we're a civilization that can fly lights in a triangle formation.

Why is all of this technology, civilizations, and beings coming all this way and not doing more than being a nuance for a few?

If we were to believe every UFO story, then there would be no way these Space crafts could just hide. Oh behind the dark side of the moon.

ohomen171 says

1) Some alien virus will be introduced that kills the whole human race rapidly. Our infrastructure and wealth would be there for the aliens to take over without firing a shot.

2) Something will happen to fry all of our electronics. All of our weapons will be neutralized.Vast social unrest will follow as people realize they have to live without electricity and all the toys that they are used to. (During the Cold War the Russians had six high-yield nuclear weapons designed to be detonated high above the US. The electromagnetic pulse that followed would fry all electronic devices and rapidly bring the US to its knees.) We would be reduced to almost a Stone Age existence and easy to control.

Nah....
(3) Two of them would take over the bodies of presidential candidates of the establishment, 1 democrat and 1 republican, and we would have to vote for 1 of them. It would proceed to ruin the country, let our infrastructures crumble, start wars for no good reasons, reduce education to nonsense, until civilization crumbles, vast social unrest ensues, and we are reduced to a Stone Age existence and easy to control.
Argh... it all suddenly makes sense ....

(4) Liberals would ban killing or resisting the aliens, calling people who oppose the aliens "racists". Masses of Latina women's studies majors would march in the streets, demanding welfare benefits for the aliens, and that white Americans be forced to give their jobs to the aliens, who can build cheaper consumer goods for the elites (Streisand, Rob Reiner, Chuck Schumer and Rosie O'Donnell), who will benefit from inexpensive latte and arugula.

Once all the white workers are replaced with space aliens, Hollywood will sponsor a "Kill Whitey Month" to brainwash Americans to hunt down non-atheist whites, offing them on sight. All churches will be repurposed as abortion clinics, and kept open 24/7. Any jobs left will be outsourced to the aliens' home planet.

All the statues of the founding fathers will be repainted the color of alien flesh, and American history books rewritten to blame whites for everything.

Rosie and Barbra Streisand will sing "We love Alien culture" on the National Mall and then shit on a huge pile of American flags.

Finally, any American citizens left alive who have ever worked for a living will be rounded up, forced to sign a manifesto affirming global warming - with the blood of the baby Jesus as ink - and then fed to the aliens as punishment for being KKK members.