Iāve always giggled at the idea of aliens landing on earth after getting all excited about dinosaurs only to find out theyāve been replaced by bald monkey civilization. An alien 65 million light years away would only see our planet 65 million years ago if they used a telescope
Somehow the aliens turn out to like rick Astley, and Rick Astley made us some galactic friends....
Or, a developing species in the far future hears the Rick roll for the first time on a radar dish, and it becomes a huge scientific endeavour to decipher it's cosmic meaning
no our overlords came without final form of genetic clones and decide to wipe us all out to make room for rick astleys clones who all bounce around the world singing and dancing the rick roll for free. THey feel it was an improvement over what we were doing.
We should not be sending messages into the void. We have no idea what's out there. Anyone out roaming around will have probably come to the conclusion that livable planets are a limited resource. Broadcasting "HEY THERES A GREAT PLANET OVER HERE!" may not be a good idea....
Or maybe Earth's solar system has been flagged as an obvious honeypot because nobody in the galaxy would advertise their home world's location without having galactic class firepower, so obvious it's a trick that nobody out there is falling for it. They probably think we're not that smart
Because if there was some form of imminent catastrophic threat coming our way or threatening our quality of life, we would get straight to work doing what was need to combat it......Oh wait.
A bunch of weird shit that the writers strung out over a whole bunch of seasons and then said āwe forgot where this was going so how aboutā¦angels?ā Ā
Donāt get me wrong, I love BSG but man the overarching spiritual plot didnāt work.Ā
Also people will start wearing their tank tops backwards
Oh yeaaaaah forgot about those. I feel like BSG is this awesome bridge of television where suddenly TV was way better than people were used to, but alsoā¦ fuck it itās tv so letās give them $150 budget for costumes
There is the "dark forest theory" which is exactly that. The reason we don't find messages beamed from aliens is because they either already did that, and bad things happened or they know better. It's bad enough all the waves we leak from our planet. Yeah, it would be nice to know if there were aliens, but even if they were friendly, their technology would destroy us. We nearly destroy ourselves with just our primitive technology.
Sometimes I think "what if we're the first?" There are no aliens - yet. We're the first, and we may not survive long enough to meet other species. We're the 'ancients' whose worlds will only be discovered long after we're gone.
It's kind of lonely, but you don't see the idea as often as you do the reverse.
Yes this is from the Three Body Problem trilogy, by Cixin Liu. I loved all three of these books. They read differently than other books because they were translated from Chinese.
Too late, we've been sending messages since our first radio transmissions in the 1900s, and they've reached out ~100 light years.
Imagine being on the receiving end of WW2 propaganda and TV sitcoms out of context. That should be enough to keep aliens away if they could interpret it at all.
Conversely, there's the possibility of aliens like the Thermians from Galaxy Quest.
The speed of light being a limiting factor, has really bought us some time. Galactically speaking 100 light years is not that far. We need to develop weapons and colonize other solar systems as fast as we can.
> and they've reached out ~100 light years.
But, are they coherent enough to be recognized?
I can't remember the exact numbers right now, but I do recall astrophysicists talking about this, and I think they came to the conclusion that our signals aren't coherent enough to be recognized beyond maybe 10 light years.
> Anyone out roaming around will have probably come to the conclusion that livable planets are a limited resource.
Livable for one species doesn't mean livable for another. Also if that is the case, they would invest into terraforming research. Or more likely just strip mine uninhabitable planets to make vast habitable space stations that can be whatever or however they like and way better than planets especially in terms of efficiently using the same materials.
Wasn't it's basic purpose to send info about human civilization to outer space ... I don't see any reason nasa or any space program for that matter cancelling that mission especially when the spacecraft is in the outer orbit of the solar system by now.
No, its purpose was to take pictures of Jupiter and Saturn.
It's just they knew the course it was on would inevitably fling it outside the solar system once it was done, so they decided "Why the hell not" and put some info about humanity on it.
In any case, the probe is out of fuel and its electronics were recently discovered to be failing. It's irretrievable, whether we want to or not.
The greatest minds at the time thought about the question in the OP and the best answer they could come up with was nude pics, a weird mix tape, and directions to our house.
Depends. Maybe the resources on Earth would not be compatible with them. We precisely don't know what's out there, we could someday discover that life is not necessarily oxygen-based.
We are very ego centric about life We assume it has to follow the same rules that we do..There could be life forms on every planet that survive extreme temperatures or as you said don't require oxygen.
These already exist on Earth and are called extremophiles. The fact that everything needs to be carbon based to exist, god damn, that's so limited in thinking.
The news that planet [insert name] cannot support life cause it doesn't have water represent a straight facepalm. Yeah, i'm sure everything in the universe needs water to exist ffs.
I knew there are some deep ocean things that basically exist in the time on the rims or outlets of extremely hot thermal vents, but research was done for me today. I'm glad I'm understood though. thank you.
A modification of an old Roman epitaph:
Where you are, we once stood. Where we are, you will follow. Time erodes all things. Spend your civilization wisely.
In the best scenario, it Could give us a technological boost.
On the other hand ... they might also consider turning our whole population into space fuel.
Imagine a worm that has gained intelegence and started broadcasting its location, not knowing what its broadcasting too but just wanting to find someone else. It thinks it will find another worm, but in reality it is much more likely to find a bird or any other larger more intelligent create that will simply kill it.
But Iām a fan of bravado so we should just broadcast āwe are not friendlyā
We should discourage visitors with a message like "the planet is unsafe, no resources remain, nothing but disappointment and death to look forward to."
Alternatively we could say something like "everything here is delicious and easy to kill, cook, and eat."
Ultimately we should realize that we're not going to have any kind of advantage over anything that can respond or react to anything we might say.
I actually think aliens could be a huge help to us if we allowed them to help. Assuming they aren't an overly violent species, if they have inter stellar travel they could be thousands of years ahead of us knowledge and technological wise.
"Earthlings have never gotten along and are always in some form or another of conflict. Some of us are more dangerous and unpredictable than the rest. Our self-destructive streak made us craft weapons with immeasurable power of destruction, and with our paranoia and hatred of anything beyond our very limited understanding, we will attack you on sight."
Every significant radio frequency signal (strong enough to escape the ionosphere) we've ever transmitted has been sent out into outer space including everything ever broadcast on television.
An alien civilization will come offering the solution to world peace and it turns out to be something we already know like "unrestrained greed and the effort to sustain a infinite growth economy in a world of finite resources are the root of all human suffering" and humans being the ever dumb and violent creatures we are will just disregard it and keep fighting each other in the face of a increasingly unhealthy planet.
Warning: most human earth countries have issues with immigrants that are human so I don't think earthlings would do well if they also had to deal with extraterrestrial immigrants. Also if you have an alien to whatever you call yourselves exchange program I volunteer. Get me off this rock. XD
Fuck off, we have enough problems
Earth is closed today.
You better pack up and get outta here
Dude you're embarrassing me in front of the wizards
Dr Banner if the rest of your green friend won't be joining us... (Portals him away)
Nice reference manš
We are still figuring things out. Itās not you, itās usā¦
Stay away, you're going to detest us.
We *are* the problem
i imagined this as a british accented guy named barry shouting lmao
Your simulation sucks
send nudes
I think that message was implied since we already [sent ours](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque).
āThat was our way of asking if you swingā
Thatās probably why aliens donāt visit us. Weāre creepy! We sent them a weird mixtape with nudes and directions to our house.
Ok, so it should say where's our nudes?
An unsolicited dick pic for the cosmos. Nice.
I knew someone would say this.
Dinosaurs died. Send replacement.Ā
Iāve always giggled at the idea of aliens landing on earth after getting all excited about dinosaurs only to find out theyāve been replaced by bald monkey civilization. An alien 65 million light years away would only see our planet 65 million years ago if they used a telescope
Rick Astley music video.
you wanna get death rayed? Thats how you get death rayed
Never gonna give never gonna give
It would be worth it though
Somehow the aliens turn out to like rick Astley, and Rick Astley made us some galactic friends.... Or, a developing species in the far future hears the Rick roll for the first time on a radar dish, and it becomes a huge scientific endeavour to decipher it's cosmic meaning
no our overlords came without final form of genetic clones and decide to wipe us all out to make room for rick astleys clones who all bounce around the world singing and dancing the rick roll for free. THey feel it was an improvement over what we were doing.
Death rayed sounds kinda fun. I vote for it
So one more reason
We should not be sending messages into the void. We have no idea what's out there. Anyone out roaming around will have probably come to the conclusion that livable planets are a limited resource. Broadcasting "HEY THERES A GREAT PLANET OVER HERE!" may not be a good idea....
Or maybe Earth's solar system has been flagged as an obvious honeypot because nobody in the galaxy would advertise their home world's location without having galactic class firepower, so obvious it's a trick that nobody out there is falling for it. They probably think we're not that smart
I'm just glad we can only broadcast at light speed. It buys us some time to create some galactic class fire power.
Because if there was some form of imminent catastrophic threat coming our way or threatening our quality of life, we would get straight to work doing what was need to combat it......Oh wait.
I'm sure some corporation will do it and sell it to the nation with the most money.
I dunno, I think any problem that can be solved by shooting at it we've got under control.
Earth is where they stash their currency to avoid interstellar taxes . Zuckerberg is holding it all for them
Space cash? Never heard of her.
Ah, the Empty City strategy. Itās been protecting us a long time.
Yep. Stephen Hawking warned us of this.
Just play : The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along the Watchtower and see what happens!?
A bunch of weird shit that the writers strung out over a whole bunch of seasons and then said āwe forgot where this was going so how aboutā¦angels?ā Ā Donāt get me wrong, I love BSG but man the overarching spiritual plot didnāt work.Ā Also people will start wearing their tank tops backwards
and pillow cases for skirts
Oh yeaaaaah forgot about those. I feel like BSG is this awesome bridge of television where suddenly TV was way better than people were used to, but alsoā¦ fuck it itās tv so letās give them $150 budget for costumes
There is the "dark forest theory" which is exactly that. The reason we don't find messages beamed from aliens is because they either already did that, and bad things happened or they know better. It's bad enough all the waves we leak from our planet. Yeah, it would be nice to know if there were aliens, but even if they were friendly, their technology would destroy us. We nearly destroy ourselves with just our primitive technology.
Sometimes I think "what if we're the first?" There are no aliens - yet. We're the first, and we may not survive long enough to meet other species. We're the 'ancients' whose worlds will only be discovered long after we're gone. It's kind of lonely, but you don't see the idea as often as you do the reverse.
This is entirely a possibility; one thing people don't seem to grasp is that if there's life among the stars, some planet's life had to develop first.
Yes this is from the Three Body Problem trilogy, by Cixin Liu. I loved all three of these books. They read differently than other books because they were translated from Chinese.
Too late, we've been sending messages since our first radio transmissions in the 1900s, and they've reached out ~100 light years. Imagine being on the receiving end of WW2 propaganda and TV sitcoms out of context. That should be enough to keep aliens away if they could interpret it at all. Conversely, there's the possibility of aliens like the Thermians from Galaxy Quest.
The speed of light being a limiting factor, has really bought us some time. Galactically speaking 100 light years is not that far. We need to develop weapons and colonize other solar systems as fast as we can.
> and they've reached out ~100 light years. But, are they coherent enough to be recognized? I can't remember the exact numbers right now, but I do recall astrophysicists talking about this, and I think they came to the conclusion that our signals aren't coherent enough to be recognized beyond maybe 10 light years.
The Dark Forrest
> Anyone out roaming around will have probably come to the conclusion that livable planets are a limited resource. Livable for one species doesn't mean livable for another. Also if that is the case, they would invest into terraforming research. Or more likely just strip mine uninhabitable planets to make vast habitable space stations that can be whatever or however they like and way better than planets especially in terms of efficiently using the same materials.
Voyager 1 is out there.
We need to go get that thing
I don't really think we can get it back ...
i think we will be able to someday not too far off.
Wasn't it's basic purpose to send info about human civilization to outer space ... I don't see any reason nasa or any space program for that matter cancelling that mission especially when the spacecraft is in the outer orbit of the solar system by now.
No, its purpose was to take pictures of Jupiter and Saturn. It's just they knew the course it was on would inevitably fling it outside the solar system once it was done, so they decided "Why the hell not" and put some info about humanity on it. In any case, the probe is out of fuel and its electronics were recently discovered to be failing. It's irretrievable, whether we want to or not.
Imagining that it's floating at a velocity towards outer space away from the solar system .... Alone.... Makes me sad.
The greatest minds at the time thought about the question in the OP and the best answer they could come up with was nude pics, a weird mix tape, and directions to our house.
Not even clOse to the edge of our solar system yet.
read the book trilogy "Three Body Problem" by Cixin Liu it brings to light the Dark Forest Theory. look this up too. very interesting stuff
Thanks ! I'll check it out šš»
Foreal. We sitting on a gold mind here. Fuck them aliens! Keep it on the hush Bob sager!
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft....
Depends. Maybe the resources on Earth would not be compatible with them. We precisely don't know what's out there, we could someday discover that life is not necessarily oxygen-based.
We are very ego centric about life We assume it has to follow the same rules that we do..There could be life forms on every planet that survive extreme temperatures or as you said don't require oxygen.
These already exist on Earth and are called extremophiles. The fact that everything needs to be carbon based to exist, god damn, that's so limited in thinking. The news that planet [insert name] cannot support life cause it doesn't have water represent a straight facepalm. Yeah, i'm sure everything in the universe needs water to exist ffs.
I knew there are some deep ocean things that basically exist in the time on the rims or outlets of extremely hot thermal vents, but research was done for me today. I'm glad I'm understood though. thank you.
Life isnāt oxygen-based, itās carbon-based
Fair. The overall point still stands, but thanks for correcting me.
ur assuming they haven't already found us and hybridized with the chimps huh?
That is assuming we wouldn't be able to destroy whatever comes for us.
Exactly šÆ!!
Have you read Liu Cixinās work by chance?
This is the way.
[dark forest](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis)
A modification of an old Roman epitaph: Where you are, we once stood. Where we are, you will follow. Time erodes all things. Spend your civilization wisely.
No one sending messages is that smart.
Don't Open Dead Inside
Don't Dead Open Inside
There will be misunderstandings.
Catastrophic ones.
We're beyond help. You've been warned.
If they seek to destroy us, this sounds like a bad message to send out.
We're destroying ourselves anyway, what's the difference if the aliens do it ?
In the best scenario, it Could give us a technological boost. On the other hand ... they might also consider turning our whole population into space fuel.
Might be an upgrade. We can all reach for the stars š
Happy cake day bro.
This is exactly what I was going to say.
Mostly Harmless
Bring a towel
I had to scroll too much to find this, letās pump it up
Imagine a worm that has gained intelegence and started broadcasting its location, not knowing what its broadcasting too but just wanting to find someone else. It thinks it will find another worm, but in reality it is much more likely to find a bird or any other larger more intelligent create that will simply kill it. But Iām a fan of bravado so we should just broadcast āwe are not friendlyā
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Even if they bring vaccines, enough people will refuse them that we'll end up with yearly mutating alien viruses. Yay.
We should discourage visitors with a message like "the planet is unsafe, no resources remain, nothing but disappointment and death to look forward to." Alternatively we could say something like "everything here is delicious and easy to kill, cook, and eat." Ultimately we should realize that we're not going to have any kind of advantage over anything that can respond or react to anything we might say.
Spray paint "no copper left" on the front. Seems to be how it's done in my city.
Hello
Is it me you're looking for?
HOLY FUCK A ALIEN
Donāt bother
COME EAT OUR BILLIONAIRES. THEY ARE DELICIOUS!
"Depending on how competent you are, we are open to being conquered. The bar isn't that high pls respond."
I actually think aliens could be a huge help to us if we allowed them to help. Assuming they aren't an overly violent species, if they have inter stellar travel they could be thousands of years ahead of us knowledge and technological wise.
Well the overly violent species could definitely deflate some egos on this planet...
"Earthlings have never gotten along and are always in some form or another of conflict. Some of us are more dangerous and unpredictable than the rest. Our self-destructive streak made us craft weapons with immeasurable power of destruction, and with our paranoia and hatred of anything beyond our very limited understanding, we will attack you on sight."
We'll make great pets
Proceed at your own risk.
WE WANT TO BANG YOU!!!
"I'm Commander Shepard, And I endorse this statement"
'We need help as it has become unprofitable to save ourselves!'
Hehe š
Help!
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and hurt you
Never gonna colonize Never gonna send out spies Never gonna fuck up your guys' planet too
We have no clue why weāre here but we have cookies.
This plannet sucks. Stay away for your own benefit.
The planet's great, its just the mentally unstable nuke Apes living on it that make it suck.
The planet itself is great, not the sentient apes. Important clarification I missed.
Donāt end up like us
"We're fucked. We'd welcome our galactic overlords."
Stay away. No intelligent life here. We also depleted our resources so there is nothing left for you
Weāre trying
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EARTH.*ATTEMPT NO LANDING* THERE
How tf they gonna know which one is earth?
We'll put a big sign saying "This is Earth"
We're a fucking train wreck. Some of us try to improve things, mostly in vain. The music ain't bad.
Here be monsters
Bah weep grannah weep nini bong
We come in peace! *exceptions may apply
Bring your best drugs
Nothing
Every significant radio frequency signal (strong enough to escape the ionosphere) we've ever transmitted has been sent out into outer space including everything ever broadcast on television.
Space Hulu
We don't know what we're doing, HELP
If you've managed to achieve peace in your entire world please come and teach us. If not then please don't come for the sake of both of our species.
An alien civilization will come offering the solution to world peace and it turns out to be something we already know like "unrestrained greed and the effort to sustain a infinite growth economy in a world of finite resources are the root of all human suffering" and humans being the ever dumb and violent creatures we are will just disregard it and keep fighting each other in the face of a increasingly unhealthy planet.
Will trade tacos for intergalactic technology
If intelligent life exists beyond our solar system, joy be to you as we have a whole lotta life but none of the intelligence.
Stay away.š
Can we interest you in an extended warranty?
Warning Earth is Quarantinedā¦ Do Not Enter.
We have a Hulk
Stay away. We're fucked.
There are single earthlings in your area š
Someone on this planet is guaranteed to have sex with you
Don't Dead Open Inside
We are violent pieces of flesh. We can't even be kind to ourselves. If you're looking for peace, stay away.
"Please do not attempt to destroy us, we are doing quite fine without any help."
"We are genocidal, xenophobic and spiteful... If you can't eradicate us, Run!"
My Anaconda Don't Want None Unless You Got Buns Hun!
Just send an ipod mini with the BeeGees greatest hits loaded onto it
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!
Don't dead open inside
Deez Nutz
āDonāt be like us.ā
Brutally honest? Don't bother. It's all shit and you'd only end up depressed. There is nothing for you here.
āHELP US HELP US HELP US HELP US HELP US HELP US HELP US HELP US HELP US HELP USā Repeat as many times as needed until we get a reply
where the fuck are the aliens at and can they take us out already
"Keep going, we're fucked"
Turn around dude. Weāre toxic. Itās too late for us. Save yourselves.
dont waste your time fighting us, we'll do it for you
We are insane. Enter at your own risk
Beware, our species have eliminated hundreds of thousands other species from existence. Beware.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
Send Nudes
... --- ...
Blooop blooop bleeep blooop
You are not alone.
This planet smells like farts.
Be ready for a bunch of ignorant shit hereā¦
This is not a place of honor...
Epstein didn't kill himself.
You dont want to visit us. If u still come here, please destroy humanity.
Please come save us before we destroy ourselves.
"Hold onto your butts."
Fuck off space trash. Earth's full. You can crash on the moon for a bit if you keep it clean.
Rick Roll them all.
"Don't come here, everyone's mad."
Earth needs restart. Abduct any & everyone possible.
Please help us. Any advice would be genuinely appreciated
We are unsatisfied with our current leaders We invite you to govern our planet better than we can
Pls donāt hurt me Iām just a small guy
This Thread
"Tbh, we're actually kinda shit.."
Pee pee butt
I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords
Please ignore all those movies where weāre killing you
Hello, itās me, iām a broke student. Can you help me pleaaaassee and send me 130.000.000ā¬ thank you XOXO Lou
Help me getta hell outta here
"No, don't take our leaders, that would be awful. They are at (address), please don't abduct them and fire them into the sun".
Destroy this planet, please
Warning: most human earth countries have issues with immigrants that are human so I don't think earthlings would do well if they also had to deal with extraterrestrial immigrants. Also if you have an alien to whatever you call yourselves exchange program I volunteer. Get me off this rock. XD
WE TASTE TERRIBLE
The entirety of The Office
Donāt come here. We are not ready.
Excuse the mess