• Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 days ago

      book two: do not make a peep, never let anyone in the universe know you exist

      spoilers:

      book three: we made a group chat with all the intelligent life in the universe, wanna hit restart a fuck up s new universe with multiple time dimensions?

  • Ayano @sopuli.xyz
    6·
    6 days ago

    If we ever get invaded by aliens, we’ll just be their lab rats. They won’t enslave us, because not efficient. They ain’t here for our resources, that’s the lamest thing to do. They ain’t coming here to erase us from existence, because the universe is mostly void, so our existence doesn’t matter to them, we occupy insignificant space in that.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      6 days ago

      They might want the resources of earth.

      There is also a chance they might want to hunt and/or rape us for the fun of it.

      • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        Nothing material on earth you can’t find everywhere else, the only things we have that aren’t incredibly plentiful elsewhere are earths unique biology and human culture. Both of which can also be obtained without us ever knowing about it. The only logical reason to invade is ideological so if we ever meet hostile aliens they’re either genocidal zealots or a bunch of sadists.

  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    Let’s hope for a long fight… If humanity has an external enemy, we would focus on killing them instead of killing each other.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      91·
      7 days ago

      Look at the history of colonization.

      The French and British both allied with Native tribes in America who already hated each other.

      It’s Exploitation 101. Offer superior weapons to the weakest group in any area and watch them do all your killing for you. Even better, they can never say anything to you, because now their old enemies hate them even more.

    • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      7 days ago

      Probably not. Just being capable of interstellar spaceflight opens up some really nice ways to kill a lot of people, such as redirecting asteroids. Or just drop nuclear bombs from orbit. Nothing we could do. Also, what if the aliens show up with more soldiers than we have people?

      • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        7 days ago

        such as redirecting asteroids. Or just drop nuclear bombs from orbit

        i mean we could totally do that, if you gave space programs a few trillion (which is the level of funding an alien invasion would cause) we could probably move asteroids within a decade

        and we already can move asteroids, just not much

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Can confirm. I played thousands of hours of Destiny, Call of Duty, and Halo. I think my KD is like 3.5 with bots, but 0.22 with humans. So aliens, probably in the middle.

      Guys I’m ready to be a hero.

  • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
    682·
    7 days ago

    I have this fantasy often. Aliens come in, and are like

    “Whilst we find the creative potential of your species commendable, the Gini Coefficient of your Planet is too high for you to join our Federation. Please rectify.”

    And then every month they just post the names and active addresses of all the wealthiest people on the planet, until the Gini Index goes down. The implementation of this transition is left as an exercise to the reader.

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
      18·
      7 days ago

      I’ve seen too many alien-themed horror movies to buy into the “aliens are gonna be Vulcans” trope. I think it’s more likely that we see one of many variations on the “aliens are unknowable horrifying parasites that will consume/transform all life on the planet to suit themselves.”

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
        9·
        7 days ago

        If a civilization that has mastered FTL shows up we are fucked. The best odds for survival are jumping to their side because they could destroy us easily. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it will be a civilization of space amazons who want to use us for sex stuff.

      • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
        23·
        7 days ago

        I live in the hope that they’re so evolved that they literally need nothing from us, and just want to preserve the ants nest of humanity as an anthropological curiosity

        • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
          14·
          7 days ago

          I like the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy version: Earth has been scheduled for demolition by the Vogons in what really amounts to be an interstellar boondoggle!

          • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
            12·
            7 days ago

            My dream is for The Culture to stop by for a visit. They just scan everything and make digital copies of the entire civilization’s total output, become fans of our TV shows, dance to our music, read our books, learn our entire history, then disguise themselves as humans to come down to see the real thing for themselves, view our natural wonders, party hard, and do little things to help us fix ourselves.