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What do you say to an alien?
- ericdykstra 15y ago"The fact that you can understand this is terrifying; please don't kill us."
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- rsanchez1 15y agoIs that the message they send us once we decrypt their communications?
- tux1968 15y ago"Hello Mr. Gingrich"
- batista 15y agoWhat do you say to an alien? "I figured you'd be an alien, babe, because your ass it out of this world".
- rsanchez1 15y agoNerdy pickup lines never work.
- batista 15y agoWorked with every alien I've met!
- bwarp 15y agoI've used similar lines and had to play dodge the beer bottle. Good for you :)
- batista 15y agoOK, I'll venture more into the OT, but I think the "pickup lines don't work" misses the point. The point is, if you are a stud and the girl is attracted to you, almost anything works, even borderline sexist stuff. If not, then yeah, you need a lot more work that some pickup line. But it's not like they rejected you because you used a lame line.
- lojack 15y ago...---...
- geuis 15y agoWhat's the favorite color of the entity communicating with us? This may seem silly, but there are a lot of interesting implications to the answer. Does the alien have a concept of color? We learn about biology. If we know about their star and habitable zone, we can surmise a lot about not just them but their environment. We learn something about their aesthetics. Maybe we can't understand them or they are relatable to us. The point is, ask a question which can provide lots of other info.
- aaronbrethorst 15y agoAesthetics might be more appropriate. Ascetics are likely to not care much about colors ;-)
- chewxy 15y ago∙ ∙ ∙∙ ∙ ∙∙ Hopefully said aliens are visual in nature and understand spacing. If they do, this works also: ○
- laichzeit0 15y agoWhy is there an overwhelming assumption that alien life is going to be in any way more remotely intelligent than say, the average earth cockroach? I've always assumed that if we meet alien life, it's going to be smaller and dumber than humans. Perhaps I'm just pessimistic, but this seems a legitimate assumption.
- rsanchez1 15y agoJudging strictly from observations, that's the most likely scenario, but it never hurts to have a plan B.
- jQueryIsAwesome 15y agoThe pessimistic assumption would be that they are smarter, because if they are they can beat us in war... which is what happens when two different species collide (heck, it even happens for differences in the colour of the skin... i cannot imagine what would happen if is the full shape)
- eichin 15y agoBecause if we meet them, it's because they got here thus they're a lot more technologically advanced than we are? (Though there's a fun short story from way back that ends with aliens who have FTL travel wanting to buy our high-reliability computing/robotics tech, because they've never developed any for themselves :-)
- rsanchez1 15y agoOne thing that struck me was how pessimistic many messages were. They were somewhere along the lines of "don't land!", "save me!", and "please save me!".
- reddit_clone 15y agoSooo what do you think? Vim or Emacs?
- readme 15y agoDoesn't matter what we say, they can already read our thoughts.
- bradleyland 15y agoFar more concerning, they've probably read the comments at YouTube or overheard the conversation that occurs on XBox Live during a round of Call of Duty.