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In another forum a thread about mind reading aliens was going off topic as usual when somebody reached a great point. How a mind reading alien differences what`s our real live experiences and what`s fantasy?

For starters an image of a 40k game probably would look like a child play to the alien, but what about half a forgoten image about the Alien chestburster popping out? The Death Star firing it´s laser? Hoth? Z of Zardof?

M.

Well, from that I'd say they'd see as a bunch of primitives living on a nice planet, take off and Nuke us from Orbit.

That and they'd learn we mostly come out at night. Mostly.

Aliens wouldn't be impressed.

The reason telepatic aliens haven't made contact with Earth is that they cant stop laughing long enough to land the ship.

The premise of Galaxy Quest was an alien race confusing TV with real life. Imagine if instead of picking random transmisions they read the mind of someone and "watch life" the death of Drake?

M.

I think then, they'd see Big Brother and it's ilk and decide to evict us all. With nukes. From Orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Expect the strike at night as well.

We've been contacted by telepathic aliens already. They'e been using the Earth as their own private science experiment for half a million years. We would not even exist if it were not for them. Don't bother telling me you don't believe it, unless you really are desperate to be pitied from afar.

Hey! 800 posts! I didn't think I'd make it!

Thanks to The Matrix we know that the mind has to rely on sensory input for its impressions of the world, and there is no way to truly distinguish between the real world and a superbly detailed simulation (in SF, of course.)

However, in our own minds we do clearly distinguish between fantasy and reality. Only children and people with mental disorders have any problem with this.

A mind-reading alien would probably read a memory of watching Terminator as a fantasy experience, not a historical experience.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I think then, they'd see Big Brother and it's ilk and decide to evict us all. With nukes. From Orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Expect the strike at night as well.

Ah, but little do we know, we are Big Brother! 'The Earthers' has been the galaxies top rated show for the last 5000 years.

(Thank you Robert Rankin!)

But what if you were thinking of something like LoTR and the alien interpreted that as real life. It wouldn't be that hard to mistake that for real life IMO.

Or Monty Python or Napoleon Dynamite.

If aliens saw an epiosode of Flying Circus they would keep us alive cause it's so funny.

B-but Z of Zardos IS real! At least...it's real in my mind.

warpcrafter wrote:We've been contacted by telepathic aliens already. They'e been using the Earth as their own private science experiment for half a million years. We would not even exist if it were not for them. Don't bother telling me you don't believe it, unless you really are desperate to be pitied from afar.

Hey! 800 posts! I didn't think I'd make it!

...And it's all over in three years, right? yourself.

There's a possibility that wargaming could be perceived as practice for our preferred use of resources... pointless conflict. That's why they're cruising the galaxy and we're still playing wih toys.

Experiment FAIL!

LuciusAR wrote:

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:I think then, they'd see Big Brother and it's ilk and decide to evict us all. With nukes. From Orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Expect the strike at night as well.

Ah, but little do we know, we are Big Brother! 'The Earthers' has been the galaxies top rated show for the last 5000 years.

(Thank you Robert Rankin!)

The Catholic Church has been trying to hint at this for centuries. They're just trying not to cause a fuss.

"Uhh, I wouldn't play with that thing. No, not even in your room."