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KellyPrettyBear
Dianec
It sounds like a mirror image of us - so we might be nuking ourselves. I vote for - understand how the wormhole works before making any decisions.
99% of the world's leaders are men
Take that into account.
KellyPrettyBear
This is a thought experiment poll about the psychology of aliens. Two sets of aliens actually, us and "them:.
Let's say that a bidirectional, stable wormhole suddenly appeared a safe distance outside of the moon's orbit. The other end led to an earth like world at roughly our level of technology. In fact they were like us psychologically too - destructive, plundering, mostly heartless and mentally unstable top predators with delusions of grandeur (as some would say anyway) - and these aliens were on the verge of spreading to the stars in a hundred years.
Would we just preemptively nuke them from orbit, or would we give them a chance?
I vote that humanity would nuke them, before our solar system left easy range of the static singularity.
I'm not saying this would be right or wrong, but that the governments of the world, overall would consider this prudent.
Perhaps a regular cleansing process of dangerous species such as ours happens every so often in our galaxy; maybe other "insane races" come here to hide with us as our termination timer hasn't run out yet?
No I don't hate humans I love them but I'm a realist; not in denial.
Thoughts?
KPB
ketsuko
reply to post by KellyPrettyBear
Sad that so many here have so little faith in the greed of humanity. If we nuke it, we can't use it.
Isn't that what most of the big corporatists would be saying?
justwokeup
We would most likely attempt to sell them government bonds and/or narcotics.
Nuking would come after wealth extraction.
SecretKnowledge
reply to post by KellyPrettyBear
Ok then, i'll reduce that to a typical american viewpoint.
There is no way the governments of the world would vote to nuke them, no matter how much america wanted to. The people of the world would'nt allow it. The rest of the world are not war mongerer's like america. Just recently america wanted to bomb iran and north korea with pre emptive strikes. Well russia used a more powerful weapon-words. Dialogue.
Jonjonj
reply to post by KellyPrettyBear
I am fairly certain that humanity isn't stopping nature from evolving, we simply don't have the power. Now if you were to say that nature could stop us!!! That is obvious.
libertytoall
The governments of both worlds would find a way to communicate and collaborate to enslave all 'kinds' so when they merge with the capability to join/travel to eachothers worlds, they have everyone enslaved.edit on 4-11-2013 by libertytoall because: (no reason given)
KellyPrettyBear
In fact they were like us psychologically too - destructive, plundering, mostly heartless and mentally unstable top predators with delusions of grandeur (as some would say anyway)
KellyPrettyBear
This is a thought experiment poll about the psychology of aliens. Two sets of aliens actually, us and "them:.
Let's say that a bidirectional, stable wormhole suddenly appeared a safe distance outside of the moon's orbit. The other end led to an earth like world at roughly our level of technology. In fact they were like us psychologically too - destructive, plundering, mostly heartless and mentally unstable top predators with delusions of grandeur (as some would say anyway) - and these aliens were on the verge of spreading to the stars in a hundred years.
Would we just preemptively nuke them from orbit, or would we give them a chance?
I vote that humanity would nuke them, before our solar system left easy range of the static singularity.
I'm not saying this would be right or wrong, but that the governments of the world, overall would consider this prudent.
Perhaps a regular cleansing process of dangerous species such as ours happens every so often in our galaxy; maybe other "insane races" come here to hide with us as our termination timer hasn't run out yet?
No I don't hate humans I love them but I'm a realist; not in denial.
Thoughts?
KPB