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2019/04/09 19:58:05
Subject: What if we found absolute proof aliens existed?
Indeed, joke regards how because the Aliens were nice to Jesus he visits them regularly, whereas humans kind of crucified him (allegedly ) and so he doesn’t visit any more.
Just a generic joke regarding aliens, nobody targeted.
2019/04/10 08:48:21
Subject: What if we found absolute proof aliens existed?
If they turned up? Well, let's hope they're not like us. Ask the native populations of the Americas, Africa, Australia and China how that worked out for them.
For most of the current populations of two of those, it worked out pretty great...
Yes, well that's rather my point. Enjoy living on a shanty on the Moon because all the good places are populated by octopus creatures who breathe nitrogen and have extracted all that nasty volatile poisonous oxygen from the air.
It depends on precisely how much more advanced than us they are and in what ways. If it turns out we're fifty years and one revolutionary physics adjustment away from a functional hyperdrive and some form of deep space hibernation; you could easily have a situation where an early 40K human style ark of aliens arrives, but isn't anywhere near powerful enough to wipe us out with their limited resources in-system.
If you want an entertaining fiction narrative along similar lines with a different chronology, Harry Turtledove wrote one about a race of lizard people with roughly comparable modern tech (missiles, nukes, etc) hitting earth during WW2. Whilst the aliens in question have enough tech advantage/resources to dominate any individual battle space, they simply don't have sufficient to conquer the whole world simultaneously. The result is a stalemate, with the humans rushing to pirate as much lizard tech as they can as fast as they can.
There's also a story about a universe where faster-than-light space travel is so easy to do that most civilisations discover it at some point equivalent to the European middle ages. One such civilisation arrives to conquer Earth, in a wooden space ship with an army of pikemen.
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2019/04/10 14:45:29
Subject: What if we found absolute proof aliens existed?
If they turned up? Well, let's hope they're not like us. Ask the native populations of the Americas, Africa, Australia and China how that worked out for them.
For most of the current populations of two of those, it worked out pretty great...
Yes, well that's rather my point. Enjoy living on a shanty on the Moon because all the good places are populated by octopus creatures who breathe nitrogen and have extracted all that nasty volatile poisonous oxygen from the air.
Yeah, I get it - to be fair I missed 'native' initially!
) and so he doesn’t visit any more.
