What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials?

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• Una@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Breed with them and eat them.

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• WongKaKui@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  YOU ARE BUGS

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pish ever exterminate bugs from home? Gas, trap, plug the holes, and They’ll will always come back.

    Only difference is what humans lack in strength and numbers they make up for in will and tenacity. Plus bugs aren’t vindictive. They just be living.

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• Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pretty sure we’d have no communication with the alien that wasn’t just corrupt politicians trying to speak for us to get some sort of trade out of them to increase their own power. It’s too important for any/all normal people to have a voice, and then when the aliens dislike the abhorrent greed we’ll probably just suffer some how more than we already do. I’d say we’re better off not reporting any alien sightings. I would trust almost any human on earth more talking to aliens on my behalf than a so called leader currently. Maybe Ireland, Spain, a handful of others have better than regular Joe leaders, but it’s rare.

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• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not sure but I have said that it’ll happen under Trump. It has to. The way things go lately this is just expected at this point

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anal probe.

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• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depends where and how. If alien space ship crash landed on earth, I’m pretty sure every government would be eager to salvage every bit of priceless tech onboard.

  But if it was a diplomatic mission with controlled first contact over radio signals, then it would probably go very differently.

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• SarahFromOz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lots of people getting probed against their will.

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• BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depends, did we find them first or did they find us first? I project our colonial past as a fear of what more advanced aliens would do. Because that’s what we would do to any alien natives.

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• arin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same thing that happened to the tribal native people during colonization.

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They would soon enslave or kill us, and plunder the planet for resources. Not that it will ever happen; space is too big.

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  • whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why go through the hassle of plundering an inhabited planet in a remote system when there are near unlimited uninhabited planets to pick all over?

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    • notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One of the most notable substances found on Earth but likely absent on most other exoplanets is liquid water. Another candidate is free oxygen (O₂) in significant quantities. On most exoplanets, oxygen is often bound in compounds (like CO₂ or H₂O) rather than existing as a free gas in the atmosphere.

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• Nomad@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depending on how similar our physiology is, a lot of very contagious infections like when we entered the Americas.

  Assuming the intent is meeting and not conquer or eradicate, because if we meet them they are certainly more advanced in technology than us.

  Probably looking for similarities in communication and maybe some kind of high security hosting behavior.

  After communication has been established, hopefully diplomatic ties are established.

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