Galaxy Class 'Venture Refit'

posted on January 18th, 2010, 6:01 am

couple of things...first off...we shouldn't go into space anymore right now anyways...we can't even make peace on our own planet let alone what happens if we meet an alien race what happens to us? We start a war with them and get our planet annhilated.....buuutt....

That first half of your point is undeniably true, humans always had problems with keeping peace. Personally, I still think it's just as possible that an alien race would be exactly what humans need to see in order to start getting more conscience of responsibility for each other as one whole human race and the planet itself. Until this day comes, it's just speculation at all.

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:11 pm

I have faith that any sufficiently advanced alien that manages to venture into our solar system will not be war mongering - to be that way, I doubt they would have been able to develop the technology to get all the way here in one piece... considering the closest system is another couple lightyears away and it is uninhabited  ... (4.2)

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:15 pm

If there is life elsewhere, I doubt all of it will be as 'peaceful' as Humans.

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:21 pm

If there is life elsewhere, I doubt all of it will be as 'peaceful' as Humans.

Certainly, but what I'm talking about is life that is traveling in space. I think you need to meet a certain number of criteria to accomplish such a task (and I'm not talking about lying dormant/cyst-like in space and then waking up to colonize) - you of course have to have the engineering skill, but also the will not to destroy your colleagues for those long years in space. Usually that assumems that you've had a great history of space exploration, which implies that you've developed a SETI program, and know that worlds can be inhabited. The fact is really, that if a species is coming here, it already knew that life was capable here, and potentially had even witnessed the rise of our current technological age. To simply wipe out life when it is so rare only fits comic book thoughts, because why the hell are you wasting so many resources just to come here to wipe out the inhabitants. And to say that you came here for a new home? Well, that implies that you somehow forgot that this new home will undoubtedly be polluted, and the natural resources, depleted 

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:22 pm

If there is life elsewhere, I doubt all of it will be as 'peaceful' as Humans.

Or else it'll be even more peaceful, and we'll be the aggressive alien conquerers  ^-^

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:25 pm

At the moment it's far more likely we'll never know that  :whistling:

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:27 pm

Well I don't know about the rest of you, but I plan to live forever...so I'll see it

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:29 pm

Forever or until the day before first contact actually happens, whichever comes first.

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:34 pm

What would be interesting is if we encounter an alien race that is less advanced or has never heard of war.

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:53 pm

Watch the movie "Galaxy Quest", and you get a cool example for the "never heard of"-case, even for a parody 

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:56 pm

I remember that movie it was funny

posted on January 18th, 2010, 4:58 pm

Forever or until the day before first contact actually happens, whichever comes first.

Oh, it'll happen...even if I have to engineer a fake one to make the REAL aliens come out of hiding...