Out There

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I recently stumbled upon this:WWW Link. I haven't read it but what do you guys think about *actual* aliens making contact?

For the record I don't believe we are 'being watched' or any conspiracy crap but I am hopeful that we will find something out there in my lifetime.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Aliens have not just contacted us, they walk amoung us every day.

Living in Arizona I see them all the time. They do day labor, cook food, mow lawns, wash cars, build homes, and do other jobs natives won't.

The truth is out there...
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
As far as extra-terrestrials go, I doubt they'd contact us if they could avoid it. If they could understand our various languages, they'd study us and find out how barbaric humans are. Even by our own standards, we pretty much suck. We can't even stand by our own treaties if they no longer suit us. That goes for any nation.

I'd be willing to bet that any race that could cooperate enough to achieve intergalactic travel would respond to us in the same way we'd respond to a snake filled boiling stagnant salt water pirhanna pond when we have a cut on our finger. Most of us would just leave it be and walk around it.

Then again, there's always that one guy...  


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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top



I'd be willing to bet that any race that could cooperate enough to achieve intergalactic travel would respond to us in the same way we'd respond to a snake filled boiling stagnant salt water pirhanna pond when we have a cut on our finger. Most of us would just leave it be and walk around it.


I personally feel that the requirment of extra terrestrials being much more socially advanced then us is quite questionable. If the last two hundred years have shown us anything, technological achievment does not equate to equal achievments in social progress. If anyhting, I would say the average person today is less generous and caring.

My personal opinion on the matter is that IF we were to ever contact another civilization out there in the black, that we would find that they are more like us then we would previously give them credit for.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I personally feel that the requirment of extra terrestrials being much more socially advanced then us is quite questionable. If the last two hundred years have shown us anything, technological achievment does not equate to equal achievments in social progress. If anyhting, I would say the average person today is less generous and caring.

My personal opinion on the matter is that IF we were to ever contact another civilization out there in the black, that we would find that they are more like us then we would previously give them credit for.


Maybe, but we'll likely never know. I'm willing to up the ante though. I'll bet 10bc from Evil Stormbringer's account that I'm right.   
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I personally feel that the requirment of extra terrestrials being much more socially advanced then us is quite questionable. If the last two hundred years have shown us anything, technological achievment does not equate to equal achievments in social progress.


Agreed.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I tend to doubt that there is any intelligent life that exists in a manner we can commuinicate with.

SciFi is great cause it gives us all kinds of humaniod aliens to think about. I find it more likely that the life that is out there is WAY different than us. For example non-carbon-based life. Or life without a phsyical body as we understand it.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Aliens have not just contacted us, they walk amoung us every day.

Living in Arizona I see them all the time. They do day labor, cook food, mow lawns, wash cars, build homes, and do other jobs natives won't.

The truth is out there...


ROFL


come to think of it an alien probably made my lunch today...
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top


Maybe, but we'll likely never know. I'm willing to up the ante though. I'll bet 10bc from Evil Stormbringer's account that I'm right.   


I'll see your 10 bc from Evil's account, and raise you Kryo's moderator powers.