Weird Questions: UFOs

Sorry Austin. This is too deep for me on Saturday night.

I don't see how it could affect it in any way.

As arrogant as we are, we would look down on them.

It is a good question, but humans like to make war on anyone perceived as different.
If they offered us a cure for cancer and billions of dollars for every man woman and child, we would still find a reason to hate them and to make war.

I think it depended upon what their belief system would be.

Unless their belief system has anything to do with harming us we need to respect them.

I don't know but I loved the bok and movie Contact. It's a shame Carl Sagan missed it.

Well it is that the earth's diplomacy or MY diplomacy or the US version of diplomacy?

If it were up to me I would be like "Run Forrest Run" sort of thing. I fear that there are just too many people here and in powerful positions who would basically rather extinguish any life form that proved to be advanced and have a less than "Christian" (say it like a tv evangelist at 2 am on channel 3) belief system. Even the Vatican historically went to great legnths to decide which stories the Bible would tell and how it would tell them.

I would love to think that we could be diplomatic, and learn from them, but I wouldn't be holding my breath on it. And the pessimisticness you might detect is from the US diplomacy part

I think the U.S. would deal with them, unless of course they were for same sex marriage, then it would not want to deal, but then if the other planets leaders (if there were such a thing, had a plan to share technology, and resources, then the U,S, would deal, even if it were found that the new found friends were wanting to harvest humans for dinner. Of course, the U.S. would not tell it's citizens this part of the deal. The U.S. would socially engineer things with special programs, whereby the "OTHERS" could secretly harvest a certain number of U.S. citizens, while denying the existance of such an agreement, or perhaps even the exisitance of those from other planets at all. I don't know what the other countries would do.

I'd worry about the language barrier first, and then trying to understand the customs as to not offend.

"They are also polytheistic, giving respect to a series of great legends of the past as well as a primary source of creation that provides inspiration and moral insight."


As far as their belief system goes, there was one just like that in every tribe on the contenent. We lumped them together with the term Indians. The white eyes and black robes tried to wipe them out.

The human is a egotistic, violent, one way, sob. The Indians would probably sit down and have a pow wow with them, not the "christians".

I am with Col. George on this one. Their being polytheistic would present a disadvantage because most of our government is made up of narrow minded Christians. ( NOT ALL Christians are narrow minded as I am one myself I am just saying those in our government in positions of power are.) Our government would spend the entire time telling them their beliefs are wrong and then offend them and eventually they would leave our planet and schedule it for demolition, better hope you have your towel ready!

LOL, Good question Austin, my brain is fried after the week I have had but I truly enjoyed actually visualizing this question and thinking about it for a few minutes.

I think we'll declare war on them

Very good question. I have no idea.

I think that the governments of earth would somehow make it impossible for us to do business with these creatures. All of the governments are so grasping and out for themselves, not one would want to share the medicines with the whole world and this would drive the creatures away from us.

Dorothy got it right.

I don't think Polytheism should be a problem. I think the problem would be that if contact was made through the U S government, that we would never be told of it.

Recently, an astronaut who was on the moon said that aliens have been here for years. The name escapes me ... you all help me out here.

I found what astronaut it was:

Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission — claims aliens exist.

He says extraterrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades.

Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview in Birmingham, England, that sources in the federal government who had had contact with aliens described the beings as "little people who look strange to us."

He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a "small gray" — short, slight frame, large eyes and large head.

Mitchell also claimed human technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as the aliens' and "had they been hostile," he warned "we would be been gone by now."

I believe it, Elmo.

Elmo, you got that right.

All good arguments...

Oh dear, I think I may BE one of those aliens!!!! (So far I'm getting along alright I guess...sporadic attempts by Christians at work to covert me but so far no violence.)