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What would you do?

Personally, I would tame the species. Super-advanced monitoring devices to detect anyone committing violence against another person, and an automated system zapping them out of existence.

Boom, war is no longer possible and violent crime drops to zero across the world instantaneously.

Run.

Harvest the brains of the entire population, make hamburger out of the corpses, the turn Terra in an intergalactic vacation resort.

Depends. Kind of hard to gauge what the goals of aliens would be.
Are we their first contact? If so, they'd probably be very excited and wanting to establish communications.
Are they desperate for resources? Then they might be desperate enough to establish dominance through an attack or threats.

Lord Scythican wrote:Harvest the brains of the entire population, make hamburger out of the corpses, the turn Terra in an intergalactic vacation resort.

I don't want to be a hamburger :(

corpsesarefun wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:Harvest the brains of the entire population, make hamburger out of the corpses, the turn Terra in an intergalactic vacation resort.

I don't want to be a hamburger :(

Steak then? How tender is your body? We could make a filet mignon type meat out of you if your stuff is tender enough.

Lord Scythican wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:Harvest the brains of the entire population, make hamburger out of the corpses, the turn Terra in an intergalactic vacation resort.

I don't want to be a hamburger :(

Steak then? How tender is your body? We could make a filet mignon type meat out of you if your stuff is tender enough.

My calves perhaps... The rest of me is just skin and bone

...Burn the planet to a cinder...

if we were their first contact?
destroy the planet and get the entire rest of my species to pray as hard as we can that not everyone else on the universe is like humans...
(apologies,i seem to have lost my faith in humanity recently)

Revenent Reiko wrote:if we were their first contact?
destroy the planet and get the entire rest of my species to pray as hard as we can that not everyone else on the universe is like humans...
(apologies,i seem to have lost my faith in humanity recently)

There isn't too many planets with liquid water. I would advise against destroying the planet. Just get the humans off the planet.

Lord Scythican wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:if we were their first contact?
destroy the planet and get the entire rest of my species to pray as hard as we can that not everyone else on the universe is like humans...
(apologies,i seem to have lost my faith in humanity recently)

There isn't too many planets with liquid water. I would advise against destroying the planet. Just get the humans off the planet.

Liquid Water?...as opposed to?

FITZZ wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:if we were their first contact?
destroy the planet and get the entire rest of my species to pray as hard as we can that not everyone else on the universe is like humans...
(apologies,i seem to have lost my faith in humanity recently)

There isn't too many planets with liquid water. I would advise against destroying the planet. Just get the humans off the planet.

Liquid Water?...as opposed to?

Solid water (ice) or gaseous water.

Lord Scythican wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:if we were their first contact?
destroy the planet and get the entire rest of my species to pray as hard as we can that not everyone else on the universe is like humans...
(apologies,i seem to have lost my faith in humanity recently)

There isn't too many planets with liquid water. I would advise against destroying the planet. Just get the humans off the planet.

just because we cant imagine non-water based life doesnt mean its not possible...
and its entirely possible that ice could be the basis for life as well, in which case our polar ice caps are worth less than for instance the ones theorised on Mars

corpsesarefun wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:if we were their first contact?
destroy the planet and get the entire rest of my species to pray as hard as we can that not everyone else on the universe is like humans...
(apologies,i seem to have lost my faith in humanity recently)

There isn't too many planets with liquid water. I would advise against destroying the planet. Just get the humans off the planet.

Liquid Water?...as opposed to?

Solid water (ice) or gaseous water.

Shhh...I know that...I was just having a bit of fun..

Besides...Solid water is Ice...gaseous water is steam...and liquid water is ...bottled and resold at a mark up.

corpsesarefun wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:if we were their first contact?
destroy the planet and get the entire rest of my species to pray as hard as we can that not everyone else on the universe is like humans...
(apologies,i seem to have lost my faith in humanity recently)

There isn't too many planets with liquid water. I would advise against destroying the planet. Just get the humans off the planet.

Liquid Water?...as opposed to?

Solid water (ice) or gaseous water.

Yeah, aliens need the liquid stuff. Without it your chances of finding life are slim. If you don't find any life then that means you will not have any brains to harvest.

FITZZ wrote:

Shhh...I know that...I was just having a bit of fun..

At my expense... :(

FITZZ wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:if we were their first contact?
destroy the planet and get the entire rest of my species to pray as hard as we can that not everyone else on the universe is like humans...
(apologies,i seem to have lost my faith in humanity recently)

There isn't too many planets with liquid water. I would advise against destroying the planet. Just get the humans off the planet.

Liquid Water?...as opposed to?

Solid water (ice) or gaseous water.

Shhh...I know that...I was just having a bit of fun..

Besides...Solid water is Ice...gaseous water is steam...and liquid water is ...bottled and resold at a mark up.

Steam is a funny one actually, much of it is tiny droplets of liquid water as opposed to gaseous water.

Listen into their brodcasts that are leeking into space to try and better gauge what they are like then try to determine wether or not they are sentient. Try to lern the most used spoken words they use. Then sit and wait in orbit and see what the funny looking bi-peds on the planet below would do first.
If they are worthy of contact let them come to us in high orbit. No point risking the safty of our ship if the...Ouumens(?)...are to overly war like.

Remove the goverments of the world and remove all consumer companies and advance the human race from this dull continued present we seem to have lived in since the 60's

point and laugh
say to the first person I met, "Take me to your leader!"

Abduct people and probe their.... no wait...
that one's already been done

Remove all traces from the moon landings, take photos and say. "You never went there, it was all a fake!"

Because surely a race that can travel across the galaxy can't melt ice into liquid water.

Well, Since there are already multiple alien species living on earth, we should ask one of them...

Monster Rain wrote:Because surely a race that can travel across the galaxy can't melt ice into liquid water.

It just doesn't taste the same. And besides melting the ice doesn't turn that icecap into a beach over night. How are they going to maintain it? It would take a very long time and a very large heating element to make ice into a vacation beach resort of a planet. Just saying...

...make sure i knew where Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith were before i landed?

ZOMBIES!!!!

Lord Scythican wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:Because surely a race that can travel across the galaxy can't melt ice into liquid water.

It just doesn't taste the same. And besides melting the ice doesn't turn that icecap into a beach over night. How are they going to maintain it? It would take a very long time and a very large heating element to make ice into a vacation beach resort of a planet. Just saying...

Very true.

I would deterraform earth with an army of replicants!

I'd force my societal norms on everyone, and use deathrays and/or lightspeed projectiles to enforce the rules

Murder if they provide good sport.
Consume if they provide good flavour.
Rape if they are remotely sexually compatible.
The hive has spoken.

Monster Rain wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:Because surely a race that can travel across the galaxy can't melt ice into liquid water.

It just doesn't taste the same. And besides melting the ice doesn't turn that icecap into a beach over night. How are they going to maintain it? It would take a very long time and a very large heating element to make ice into a vacation beach resort of a planet. Just saying...

Very true.

I would deterraform earth with an army of replicants!

Now that has some style to it!

@ Lord Scythian...

Sorry if I seemed to be joking at your expense man...it wasn't my intentions to insult you in any way.

I have no idea as any response I give would still be form from a limited human-centric view point. We have no point of reference to what it would be like and as such just apply our still human ideas.

For all I know I would turn everything into tulips becuase, for reasons I can't begin to grasp, aliens think all planets in this galaxy should be made up of tulips.