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We're not only not ready, but I'm willing to bet we're the inbred, backwards, savage, violent redneck, middle-of-nowhere, kill-and-eat-anything-that-moves, psycho family species of the Milky Way and the Sol system is rural West Virginia.
Fermi's Paradox isn't real, they're all just hiding themselves from us because we're THAT messed up of a species? How bad is humanity? With literally no other advanced intelligences to compare ourselves to, some of us (like me) can safely point out or own ignorance, pettiness, conceit, arrogance, and hostility as a species.
Most humans still believe in fairy tales about sky gods and most humans are still easily manipulated by any stupid hot-button political issue like abortion, gay marriage, or forced vaccines. Most humans don't give a single sh*t about their fellow man and are very narcissitic, selfish, and stupid. I dare say, we're even worse than the cannibalistic West Virginia inbred family example I gave before, because at least we're "smart enough" to 1) have self-awareness and 2) have a few minor geniuses among the hundreds of millions to redeem us by splitting the atom or discovering electricity.
Hell, it's 2022 and instead of having colonies on the moon or Mars, we have people chopping their balls off and pretending to be the other gender, open political corruption in plain sight in every major country in the world, an obvious puppet and destroyer of America in our own country right now, Communism still a thing in countries like China, and corporate corruption like Nestlé stealing water from people and selling it back to them, and almost no humans give a f*ck about any of this due to the rule of Wine and Circuses. Put some pizza, beer, and Netflix in front of them and watch the most useless politicians in history literally destroy the planet right in front of us.
I'm not going to pretend like I'm not a misanthrope, but what redeeming qualities, if any, does humanity have? Like, name me three. And no, food doesn't count. I'm pretty sure "love" doesn't count, cause even animals seem to do that better than us.
Aliens wouldn't even bother invading or mercy-killing us, because we're THAT bad of a species and anything they do would be far more merciful than our own continued existence.
If in 2022, we have someone like Joe Biden as our "representative," woke culture, religion still being a thing on most of the planet (especially Islam, the worst of the worst religions out there), and Communism still existing, then galactically, we're on the level of cavemen, if not lower than that. I'm pretty sure IF there are more "intelligent lifeforms" out there who may or may not be less technologically advanced than us, they're at least more civilized than us, the inbred West Virginia serial killer family of the Milky Way.
TL;DR answer: No. We'll likely never be civilized enough to meet advanced benevolent alien life.
u Pfft, no way are we ready to meet beings from another world.
Part of the population would just shoot them on sight for being "illegal".
Others would just want to dissect them.
Another group would blame them for controlling the government lizard people.
The rest would probably worship them as gods.
Oh, and a few would probably want to sleep with them, too. 🤦♂️
There's probably a reason we haven't met any aliens, yet. There's a big barbed wire fence around our solar system, with signs that say: "Warning - Humans!"
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Our people can’t even handle others of different cultures or sexual orientation, definitely not ready for meeting life from another planet.
I think a lot of it depends on where they land. If they're from a very cold place, and think that the only place life could survive is Antarctica, we'd probably actually be okay- most of the people there are researchers, who'd react... Hmm, now that I think about it...
Have you ever read History of the Empires of the Sun and Moon? It was written by Cyrano De Bergerac (who was a real person, and actually considerably MORE impressive than his counterpart in the play; for some reason, the gods have decided that the quantity of Badass which is vested to the French is to be concentrated in one person at a time, instead of spread around the populace), and is basically the first example of science fiction as we know it today. It's about a guy who travels to the sun and the moon, and meets the people there, and his interactions with them are pretty much what you'd expect from a horny nerd who has to invent new literary genres (which, given Cyrano's proclivities, is not the least bit inappropriate).
If first contact is made with scientists instead of diplomats, I give it 50/50 odds that one of the aliens gets hit on within the first 24 hours. And that's overall; the more human-like they look, the faster it'll get. Now, if they're like humans, that'll be accepted; if they're like bonobos, it'll be welcomed; if they're like spiders, we're going to be SO doomed.
Anyway, if the aliens land in an actual COUNTRY, then I think it depends on where. The USA, Russia, China, or Israel will probably see much by way of human evil screwing things up; some places it might be better. All in all, I think our odds of peaceful integration aren't good. There WAS, famously, a meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev, who both agreed that if the other side came under ATTACK by aliens, they'd pause the whole "Cold War" thing and fight side by side in the name of our common humanity; I don't think they'd've reacted so well if alien life came in peace.
Fuck no we can't even get along with each other what the fuck are we going to do with another identity maybe that might just be the ticket maybe that might be the learning experience that we need but you know damn well there's going to be some mother fucking dumb ignorant person it's going to have to start a rumor or start thinking that they are bigger and better than the alien that comes and says hello that's probably what they've been waiting for is for us to get our shit together on the ground here first but there's going to always be one ignorant motherfucker they get shit started
Most likely, it would be like Babylon 5. We'd misunderstand one another's greeting customs and start an interstellar war and/or eat one another for lunch.
On Earth, the most highly intelligent species are predators, with the exception of Elephants. It probably is the same way out there in space, so I would expect other sentient species to be very much war-like similar to the Protoss and Zerg from StarCraft or else they'd be like primitive humans if they haven't invented that technology yet.
Anyone with the technology to fly to Earth from another Star PRESENTLY would absolutely weck contemporary humans in an open war. Even with Nukes and our best rockets, we'd have no chance whatsoever against someone who has anti-matter and/or Zero Point Energy and Warp Drive. They could run circles around our entire planet with a single Starship.
Considering how panicky humans can be especially via mass hysteria I doubt it.
I predict that sometime in the 21st century we will discover extraterrestrial life but it won’t be ET. Rather it will be simple life forms like bacteria that might be able to survive in certain conditions on Saturns moons (e. g. Callisto)
But as for intelligent life I just feel that at this point somewhere someway that someone would of had an undeniable and confirmed interaction with a ET. Sure 1st world countries have resources to cover up alien contact but not 2nd/3rd world countries. UFOs and alien contact is a global phenomenon.
We are too divisive as a species too come together.
We still need time to grow consciously and technically. I believe we need time to develop AI robots do they are a household item. I believe this will help us to grow together and harmoniously. Then we would be ready to meet ET.
Probably more to do with distance and time. Space is vast and time infinite. There could have been other intelligent life on Mars but a shift in the rotation of the solar system killed all life. There were some theories way back that Mars and Venus switched postions and this caused a calamity that wiped out pre ice age civilisation. We like to think of earth as permanent fixed rotations of the sun, fixed climates fixed days when the truth is a minor change in the tilt of the earth's axis would send us back to the stone age.
Maybe if there is other intelligent life they are aware of us and happy to watch because any race that can master space, time and dimensional travel well we would less than insects to them and that's more likely why we haven't met extraterrestrials.
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Have you been paying attention to society, lately? We are too divided... Polarized, even. As much as I want off this rock, it's not happening. If I were a peaceful extraterrestrial, I would pull a Clark Griswold in the bad part of town... "Roll 'em up!"
We're still having the flat v round earth debate. I doubt they'd waste their time on us
Probably no, we are as divided as we can be.
Half of the population would probably straight denounce their existence even in their face, other half would want to nuke them, and the third half would want to join them to leave the other two halves behind.
No. There are SOME humans who are considerate, intelligent, and non-destructive who could meet extraterrestrials, and then there's the rest of the human race, who are self-centered, greedy, hateful, fearful, destructive, who are unfit to even meet another human.
Humans are Stupid and because there stupid they become weak mentally physically and emotionally
No alien wants to meet that Race.
We don’t give alien knowledge they can easily get a hold of our knowledge by simply Taking someone’s Phone and wiping there memory and reading stuff of the internet. All the knowledge we have that is false aliens would know what is true and what is not.
We have this world to contend with, and we don't do it well. Then we find out we are doing pretty fucking good, then they ask for money. Stupid asses we are? We send them money. No one understands this paradigm. We are sick of it.
If they come in peace, there would probably be a lot of people willing and able and there would be some that would say "let's wait and see" kinda like the reaction from the V television series. What would worry me is the stupid people.
We have probably already been blacklisted by the aliens for being too primitive and violent.
LOL, Right peaceful aliens, My guess is even with, or perhaps especially with, excellent communication abilities, they would be back in their ship and sneak back out of town, after leaving a warning buoy telling other intergalactic invaders to beware.
Some governments, like the US and the Vatican (meaning the christian church) actually have plans for the case an extraterrestrial civilization visits us.
Although I think our civilian society will go nuts, just look at all the conspiracy therorists, woke culture, mistrust etc. I guess at first society won't even believe it and sell it as a hoax
A good portion of the population can't even grasp the idea that Earth isn't the center of the universe let alone there being other life forms out there
If we are fighting each other and losing our shit over simple political disagreements, I don't believe extraterrestrials will be something we will handle any better.
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