More Speculative Fun: If Alien Contact Was Real...

from "Contact" (the movie, anyway): Why is it always the opinion of the egghead set that aliens are friendly?

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The bombardment came from orbit with very little warning. Earth's greatest militaries knew, but there was precious little they could do about it. Bunkers designed to withstand nuclear attack cracked like eggshells. Airliners were neatly picked out of the sky. Nuclear missiles, unable to get a good lock on targets, were intercepted mid-air, anyway. No matter how defiant, nobody was able to fight back. Nobody was able to strike the blow for good. No germ or disease was able to magically ward off the attack.

After almost six hours of solid bombardment... of the cities, the prairies, forests set alight, torrents of ocean water boiled off, only to precipitate as devastating storms and fallout elsewhere... the attack ceased, nearly as quickly as it started. No landing force came. No brave resistance was able to be put forth, nor heroic fight for freedom to occur. There was no enslavement. Only death.

Those who survived were the statistical improbabilities, and were anything but lucky. It would be a long time before anyone amongst the estimated 10% of humans that survived would ever be able to take true stock of the devastation...
 
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LostAngeles said:
Alien contact with the Earth? What if it were true? Anything from abductions (w/ or w/out anal probing) to a secret rule by Reptoids to ancient astronauts is fair game here. (If you can combine them all and make it work, I'll steal a Marvel No-Prize to give to you.)

So, oh crap, we have/had/have had alien contact. Now what? (Or what changed or what will change)
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negativ said:
Some idiot would eventually make a vapid reality TV show about it. I can absolutely guarantee that would happen.

Who Wants to Marry A Zeta Reticulan
The Galaxy's Next Top Model
Na-noo 911

The dumber the concept, the more likely it is to happen.
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Yep. The alien TV listings are choc-a-block with "Alien Idol," "Who Wants to be a Bagelaire,"* "Christ for a Day," and so on.

* Bagels are legal tender there.


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Someone once wondered about their religion, assuming they have one, and whether they would have Christ or not.

Quite frankly, I would be much more worried about ourselves. "Their religion" would be the religion that was bestest at converting people from other religions, the best out of millions to hundreds of quadrillions, depending on the size of the galactic or universal society; and thus statistically, almost certainly none of our religions would stand a chance against it.
 
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This reads like someone's channeling S. Lem right now :)

Beerina said:
Someone once wondered about their religion, assuming they have one, and whether they would have Christ or not.

Quite frankly, I would be much more worried about ourselves. "Their religion" would be the religion that was bestest at converting people from other religions, the best out of millions to hundreds of quadrillions, depending on the size of the galactic or universal society; and thus statistically, almost certainly none of our religions would stand a chance against it.
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Ah, i vividly recall Stanislaw Lem's "Star diaries" (my translation of the german title, so may not be 100% accurate ;) where he describes the problems encountered by the catholic church as it tries to spread christianity to the higher evolved regions of the galaxy, and ends up with having their monks either cured or mutilated by well-meaning aliens... :)
(there's also a chapter on the robotic monks that have reached 100% efficiency in converting anybody, leaving them only their abstinence from converting anyone at all as an expression of their faith).
All in all, a very quirky book...
 
I would try and breed with one of them. Maybe sex with alien is "out of this world." Get it? Out of this world, bc they are not from our world. I am so funny! :)
 
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