If extraterrestrials landed...

[Slioch]

If they landed at Heathrow and had to go through customs, they'd probably just turn around and go home again.

Either that or they'd have to spend two weeks self isolating in a manky Best Western on the outskirts of Slough.

 

[Baldy]

If they did ever make it here, they'd probably take one look and conclude that there's no intelligence life on Earth and bugger off home.

 

[Hover Fly]

Aliens come to our planet and ask the first intelligent beings they find what they can do for them.
The dolphins reply “Can you do something about those ruddy humans?”

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Aliens come to our planet and ask the first intelligent beings they find what they can do for them.
The dolphins reply “Can you do something about those ruddy humans?”

I'll no doubt get the terminology wrong, but I recall an article I read that claimed if aliens came down and did a life scan of a human, they'd likely conclude we were a vehicle for transporting other forms of life, as the bulk of our cells are non-human.

 

[FishFright]

I'd give them my wifi password so they could see what we really are and let them get on with wiping out humans.

 

[classic33]

I'd give them my wifi password so they could see what we really are and let them get on with wiping out humans.

Maybe they already know it.

 

[Oldhippy]

We base everything on what we 'know to be feasible' over the last two centuries we have done things in a technology sense that were utterly incomprehensible four centuries ago. Who's to say they've not been and gone, been watching for millennia or would we even be aware if they were here.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

We base everything on what we 'know to be feasible' over the last two centuries we have done things in a technology sense that were utterly incomprehensible four centuries ago. Who's to say they've not been and gone, been watching for millennia or would we even be aware if they were here.

Some interesting documentaries about ancient technology and structures, and where it may (or may not) have come from. There's a site in Turkey reputed to be over 15,000 years old, that gives information on farming, before farming was a thing.

 

[Oldhippy]

Gobleki Teki makes no sense whatsoever in a human historical sense. It goes against everything we think we know. So many other relics make no sense in ancient history especially. It is nigh on impossible to put yourself in their shoes and we can never underestimate human ingenuity of course. Da Vinci for example, the intellect to invent an aeroplane but never figured out that if only he had designed it as a fixed wing human flight would have occurred hundreds of years before the Wright brothers. What stops that essentially small leap of imagination after the genius of conceiving the concept?

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Gobleki Teki makes no sense whatsoever in a human historical sense. It goes against everything we think we know. So many other relics make no sense in ancient history especially. It is nigh on impossible to put yourself in their shoes and we can never underestimate human ingenuity of course. Da Vinci for example, the intellect to invent an aeroplane but never figured out that if only he had designed it as a fixed wing human flight would have occurred hundreds of years before the Wright brothers. What stops that essentially small leap of imagination after the genius of conceiving the concept?

I can sort of get my head around old technology existing, and possibly even why it seems to have suddenly appeared all around the globe, but for me, a bigger mystery is why it seems to have vanished. Normally, technology advances.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

…..but they might speak in Klingon and you wouldn't understand!

You are such a party pooper you know.. you have to go and spoil things.

Don't fret @welsh dragon Google Translate is your friend

 

[welsh dragon]

Don't fret @welsh dragon Google Translate is your friend

If it can translate Welsh then I'm sure it can cope with Alien

 

[Once a Wheeler]

I tend towards the C S Lewis hypothesis:
The exterrestrials are out there. They know where we are, they know who we are and they know what we are. However, since they know who we are and since they know what we are, they refuse to make contact.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

If it can translate Welsh then I'm sure it can cope with Alien

Yn hollol

 

[Mo1959]

I tend towards the C S Lewis hypothesis:
The exterrestrials are out there. They know where we are, they know who we are and they know what we are. However, since they know who we are and since they know what we are, they refuse to make contact.

Sensible!