What if the aliens were just polite but didn't bother about us?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I didn't know where to post this so putting it here. If it has to move kind mod people you can move this.

What if aliens were in our solar system studying the other planets and then they meet our planet and find us. They don't come with any motive or any kind of agenda they just are there and are practical in their nature.

They are here to study the solar system and they find Earth but they don't make any demands of us, they don't even try to go out of their way to make friends but they do visit. Instead they act in a very practical way say hello then fly off back to wherever they are going to go next.

Would that be a different kind of encounter to have and would that impact on us much? They don't even bother to land or stake out a place here. They say hi and leave.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Teasers?

Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets which haven't made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.

They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor soul whom no one's ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennae on their heads and making beep beep noises.

Rather childish really.

https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/t/437664

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Teasers?

https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/t/437664

Yeah but would these guys be in that teaser category? They are studying the other planets so obviously have brains and are studying planets just they see no interest with ours.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Yeah, not like Teasers.

Wouldn't they just cloak themselves from our view (as In Star Trek Insurrection) to try to avoid perturbing the "experiment"?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Yeah, not like Teasers.

Wouldn't they just cloak themselves from our view (as In Star Trek Insurrection) to try to avoid perturbing the "experiment"?

It would depend. I just had this thought of aliens popping by saying hello and having a chat via radio or video and then bugging out to their next assignment. So maybe they have no formal rules as to what to do in terms of contact.

I'm thinking if they set up more permanent digs in our solar system say to mine stuff they then might make more formal introductions.

I mean we'd be literally able to observe them as they work so it wasn't like they have to hide.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

As Enrico Fermi said "Where are they?"

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

As Enrico Fermi said "Where are they?"

Ooh.

 

[valkyrie013]

Maybe like star trek, theres this big "Federation" out there, and they have a policy of non interference in non space faring systems. Maybe when we reach certain plateaus like a nuclear bomb, they take notice, and keep an eye on us to make sure we don't blow ourselves up.. or if they see that we would be bad for the universe.. like.. well right now.. I mean who would want humanity in there federation?? we suck@

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Maybe like star trek, theres this big "Federation" out there, and they have a policy of non interference in non space faring systems. Maybe when we reach certain plateaus like a nuclear bomb, they take notice, and keep an eye on us to make sure we don't blow ourselves up.. or if they see that we would be bad for the universe.. like.. well right now.. I mean who would want humanity in there federation?? we suck@

But if there is such a thing I wonder what we need to do to gain their attention or entry into their federation?

For the Vulcans it was warp travel that made them reach out to new worlds but why was warp travel their gold standard?

 

[2takesfrakes]

These aliens would soon be troubled with a pernicious SETI programme. Imagine that ... the hounding they'd get. Signal after signal. Then, as in the movie CONTACT, the National Security Council would soon take SETI over, whilst the world sorted through all of The Internet Click Bait on the matter. As to what lasting effect it would have on society, I wouldn't care to hazard a guess.

 

[TrickyDickie]

We are quarantined and kept behind the veil.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

We are quarantined and kept behind the veil.

I thought you meant a wall, a glorious yuge galactic wall

 

[think]

It’s the idea of linear time that is the status quo Making it so annoying to us aliens, time is illusion and what earthlings measure time,..

 

[2takesfrakes]

We are quarantined and kept behind the veil.

There's something to ponder! Aliens controlling the region our Solar System is in might be deflecting signals so that we don't find ourselves stepping into a hornet's nest by drawing attention to ourselves, here. It would certainly answer a few things for SETI.

 

[XCV330]

intelligent life, if it exists out there, could mostly form in under-ice oceans on worlds that never got magnetic field to allow surface life to thrive, and without developing combustion, those species would never have developed the technological series of events culminating in spaceflight. We'll never find them.
Maybe surface dwelling life, like ourselves, that has even made it this far, is exceedingly rare in the universe.

 

[Riker'sMailbox]

If aliens were advanced enough to get here from interstellar distances, surely they would have scanning equipment that was sensitive enough to detect life in a start system.

But, maybe if they were on like an interstellar road trip, where they were not researching and more just taking each star system and planet as it comes. I could road tripping aliens just stop by to say 'hi, pretty planet, gotta go'.

 

[XCV330]

another possibility is that any species that manages to be peaceful enough not to destroy itself and explores the cosmos is at least open to the idea of trade and ethical enough not to just take it, a la colonialism.

We don't have any stuff they want, apparently.

 

[2takesfrakes]

We may well have The Stuff they want. Earth isn't the only depot in the Solar System, though. Jupiter's bounty could easily be secretly harvested in secret. Venus could be heavily mined, at this moment ... we don't know!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

We may well have The Stuff they want. Earth isn't the only depot in the Solar System, though. Jupiter's bounty could easily be secretly harvested in secret. Venus could be heavily mined, at this moment ... we don't know!

Actually we would know if Venus atmosphere changes drastically we would have some idea something was going on.

As long as it wasn't blue glowy stuff and corporations don't think "hey we can totally control this stuff" OOPS!!!!!

 

[2takesfrakes]

I was curious, actually, why Venus isn't made a fuss over the way Mars typically is. I mean, after all, it IS our sister planet and ... and so forth. But it turns out that terraforming it would take vast resources and the budgetary implications would be most ... prohibitive:

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