If a UFO landed in your backyard....

[Tyjos Azari]

Chances are if it were a bunch of alien hotties yea I'd probably go.

 

[JiNX-01]

Hell yeah.

As it happens, a day or two ago, I posted in a "what do you want to do before you die?" thread that I would like to meet E.T.

So these two questions fit nicely together.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

No. It's the dawn of a wondrous new era in my life with a new career, a beautiful fiancee and life beyond DC just two years away. No, Thank you

That's awesome!

 

[John Picard]

A friend and i use to play this game we called "What if?" We would come up with a scenario and ask each other "what would you do?"

My favorite one was this, "If a UFO landed in your backyard and an alien came out and asked you to join them, would you?"

Now, you don't know if their intentions are good or not. And you cannot call your loved ones and let them know what you are doing. So, my question is....

Would you go?


I would in a heartbeat. And from day one, my husband has known that i would. And it's always been understood that if one day he comes home and i'm not here...i'm gone. Like, really gone.

Would you go?

Talk about some weird timing This thought actually went through my mind a few weeks ago. I presently live on 10 acres about 20 minutes from town; however, a number of factors would fall into place:
1) Is their ship quiet enough so as not to arouse the curiosity of the neighbors because,
2) I live in an area of Oklahoma where many people are the atypical shotgun toting redneck
3) Will the aliens be able to effectively communicate with me
4) Would I be able to bring my cats?
5) Is there a timetable as to how long I may travel with them?

Assuming we can communicate, I can bring the cats, and it's not a quick jaunt to the Andromeda Galaxy and back, I'm game even if Einstein's Theory holds true where a 10 year journey for me means that 100 years of time on Earth have passed.

 

[trekkiedane]

4) Would I be able to bring my cats?
5) Is there a timetable as to how long I may travel with them?

6) How much will my cat have (d)evolved when we get there?

 

[John Picard]

4) Would I be able to bring my cats?
5) Is there a timetable as to how long I may travel with them?

6) How much will my cat have (d)evolved when we get there?

Good one!

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I am so in shock that the NAYs outweigh the AYES!! On a Star Trek board!!!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I am so in shock that the NAYs outweigh the AYES!! On a Star Trek board!!!

Well, Star Trek has taught us that it's perfectly all right for us to land in alien backyards and invite aliens to come travel with us.... I guess we don't like it when the tables are turned.

 

[John Picard]

I am so in shock that the NAYs outweigh the AYES!! On a Star Trek board!!!

You expect Trekkies to leave their parents' basements??

 

[auntiehill]

Sure, couldn't be any worse than living amongst the freaks here in Texas.

^ Only someone who also lives in Texas could appreciate the sad truth of this statement.

 

[Miss Chicken]

(ETA that the "Easter Pussy" avatar above this post is one of the most disturbing things I've seen in a while. Ewww, yuck!)

Thank you.

trekkiedane, the Easter Pussy avatar that you designed has had quite a few comments most of them positive.

 

[trekkiedane]

(ETA that the "Easter Pussy" avatar above this post is one of the most disturbing things I've seen in a while. Ewww, yuck!)

Thank you.

trekkiedane, the Easter Pussy avatar that you designed has had quite a few comments most of them positive.

Sounds good -thanks for letting me know. (I got a thumbsup in a totally unrelated thread )

 

[scotpens]

. . . I think it would be foolish to trust that ones life and personal interests are safe in the hands of the strangest stranger you've ever met.

For comparison, if a strange looking stranger pulled their car into your driveway and asked you to join them, would you?

For me, that comparision is apples to oranges. Of course i wouldn't go with a stranger in a car (*stranger danger* gah!!) ...but we are talking about aliens. From another world.

What if they turned out to be extraterrestrial perverts?

No way. I'm not ending up as the cargo on some intergalactic triangular trading vessel.

Right, you could wind up being sold at a slave auction on Rigel VII along with a bunch of green women!

. . . I live in an area of Oklahoma where many people are the atypical shotgun toting redneck

What's an atypical shotgun-toting redneck? One who drives a Prius instead of a pickup truck?

 

[Yeoman Randi]

. . . I think it would be foolish to trust that ones life and personal interests are safe in the hands of the strangest stranger you've ever met.

For comparison, if a strange looking stranger pulled their car into your driveway and asked you to join them, would you?

For me, that comparision is apples to oranges. Of course i wouldn't go with a stranger in a car (*stranger danger* gah!!) ...but we are talking about aliens. From another world.

What if they turned out to be extraterrestrial perverts?

And the problem would be........????????

 

[Holdfast]

. . . I think it would be foolish to trust that ones life and personal interests are safe in the hands of the strangest stranger you've ever met.

For comparison, if a strange looking stranger pulled their car into your driveway and asked you to join them, would you?

For me, that comparision is apples to oranges. Of course i wouldn't go with a stranger in a car (*stranger danger* gah!!) ...but we are talking about aliens. From another world.

What if they turned out to be extraterrestrial perverts?

True. Imagine all their new alien perversions.

No way. I'm not ending up as the cargo on some intergalactic triangular trading vessel.

Right, you could wind up being sold at a slave auction on Rigel VII along with a bunch of green women?

Indeed. I don't mind buying the green slave girls, but absolutely refuse to be for sale in the same auction as them. Imagine the shame when they get a higher price and I get sent to be fed to the (intergalactic weird alien) lions instead? Never!

 

[trampledamage]

I am so in shock that the NAYs outweigh the AYES!! On a Star Trek board!!!

You made your original scenario too restrictive. Had the question been, aliens land, you invite them in for tea, they invite you and your family off for a trip around the galaxy, do you go? Then the answer would have been yes more often