I don't care to talk to you bitches anyway SPAM. Famous Bangles quote.

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Originally posted by Sugarpie

So the bullets seemed to have no effect, yet they were able to hold off several creatures for hours?...and the aliens left when the police came, but returned when they left...how do they even know what police are?

I stick by my original comment.

It's not about knowing what police are. It's about knowing that a shit ton more things showed up.

Personally, if I were observing/assaulting/whatever'ing a location with 7 locals, and all of the sudden 20 more locals showed up, I wouldn't exactly stay visible either. It'd be stupid.

The 7 were already in a state of agitation and firing weapons- as to whether or not they had an effect other than obvious impact (the "back flips",) who knows. So it stands to reason that they'd be cautious towards figuring out what 20 more locals (bringing it to nearly 30) would do, or what they could do.

And also, the aliens didn't display signs of aggression. They could have just been curious, or performing reconnaissance, or ...found it fun to play games of tag, or were just trying to make contact and didn't realize they were in a battle, etc. To assume that they have same motivators and desires and thought processes as we do invites errors.

Also, it's immature to assume that because there were aliens around they obviously and inherently intended to disintegrate everything in their path.

I started to write a response, and then I realized I'M DEBATING ABOUT FUCKING ALIENS.

So I'll just say this...I think its extremely naive to think we are alone in the universe, but I also think its extremely unlikely that we've been visited by aliens. I mean...there have literally been hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of reports of alien encounters and there isn't one shred of non debatable proof? I'm not even talking bodies or a crashed space craft...I'm talking unarguable and unedited photos or video, a misplaced tool, a biological sample of hair/skin/scale/mucus...whatever. Not to mention, out of the millions of so called witnesses, why are the ships and aliens often different? Like I said, I'm sure we're not alone, but the thought of 1 spices visiting is unlikely, the thought of hundreds is absurd. Also...if we've been visited so much, why haven't they made themselves known....why haven't they ever landed in broad daylight in the middle of downtown LA? Its always at night in the middle of some Kansas cornfield. Please.

They're not all the the same for the same reason that the life on earth isn't all the same, and every human doesn't drive a Toyota Corolla?

The Universe is a pretty large place, and if earth can have more than one species, then the Universe will probably have at least a handful out there that have developed under different circumstances?

And it's conceivable that interstellar travel for a civilization advanced enough to do it on the regular, travelling to earth and any rock in the Universe they want is as easy as driving to the neighboring town for us.

And even if it's complicated, since we're obviously not rubbing elbows with aliens on the doop space station in Futurama, the aliens could be visiting us in the same fashion that we organize scientific trips to the Antarctic and Galapagos Islands and the deep sea and such.

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Originally posted by Bangledesh

They're not all the the same for the same reason that the life on earth isn't all the same, and every human doesn't drive a Toyota Corolla?

The Universe is a pretty large place, and if earth can have more than one species, then the Universe will probably have at least a handful out there that have developed under different circumstances?

Yeah, but it stands to reason that every planet that has living creatures, only one of those creatures is going to be dominant and capable of space travel, so they are all going to look more or less alike. Just like on earth, se vary, but have the same basic shape and features.

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Originally posted by Bangledesh

And it's conceivable that interstellar travel for a civilization advanced enough to do it on the regular, travelling to earth and any rock in the Universe they want is as easy as driving to the neighboring town for us.

And even if it's complicated, since we're obviously not rubbing elbows with aliens on the doop space station in Futurama, the aliens could be visiting us in the same fashion that we organize scientific trips to the Antarctic and Galapagos Islands and the deep sea and such.

The only problem with that is that there are 2-3 trillion planets in the universe, so actually finding a planet with another life form on it is a staggering low number. The odds that some alien race...or races have just stumbled across earth is statistically next to zero.

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Originally posted by Sugarpie

The only problem with that is that there are 2-3 trillion planets in the universe, so actually finding a planet with another life form on it is a staggering low number. The odds that some alien race...or races have just stumbled across earth is statistically next to zero.

All they would have to do is comb the skies for narrow-band radio signals, just like we do. If they are smarter than thus, they have most likely been around a lot longer than us, have far more advanced equipment to perform such searches. Their capacity to do such searches in an effective capacity could be a thousand fold more than what we have. We've had recorded incidents of contact of UFOs for dating back thousands of years. Hell, they would probably have far more effective methods of spotting habitable planets. Out of the infinite counts of planets, only a fraction of them are inhabitable so that would eliminate a lot of searches.

Also non-debatable proof? Do you really think any government wouldn't be all over and silencing contactees with viable evidence? No way in the world would they let that happen, the proof of an advanced alien life coming into contact with humans would be disastrous to established religions and world powers.

Justin Bieber, and Miley Cyrus, do we really need more proof aliens exist...

No, those monstrosities are abnormalities, Canadians.

Anyway, imagine how damaging it would be to the populace if the Aliens showed up and are like, "Yo, we seeded this planet. We tweaked and optimized your DNA and have been genetically modifying you guys for thousands of years to get you to this point. All this shit has been an experiment. So yeah, please don't lose your shit." To which point about six and a half billion people lose their shit.

Agreed Kanzen, mass panic would surely ensue.

Pretty sure shooting at aliens is the dumbest thing possible. Let's face it. If aliens posses technology to fly spaceships to Earth from hundreds of billions of miles away, I'm pretty sure ole pappy's Remington isn't going to stand up against whatever awesome alien technology they have. Thanks, Kentucky hillbillies, you've doomed Earth.

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Originally posted by DEMO

Justin Bieber, and Miley Cyrus, do we really need more proof aliens exist...

If anything, this is proof of God...and that God hates us.

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Originally posted by Davey45

Pretty sure shooting at aliens is the dumbest thing possible. Let's face it. If aliens posses technology to fly spaceships to Earth from hundreds of billions of miles away, I'm pretty sure ole pappy's Remington isn't going to stand up against whatever awesome alien technology they have. Thanks, Kentucky hillbillies, you've doomed Earth.

As opposed to what? Just because the aliens are high tech doesn't mean that having holes put in them doesn't matter.

I'm pretty sure the tech-savviest humans out there could still be taken down by a spear, if properly applied by a motivated Aboriginal.

The aliens might have been without war or conflict, or have moved on to radio weapons and such and have forgotten or developed past worrying about solid objects at high speeds. Orson Welles' aliens were taken out by a cold. There's no way to know what will or won't work on an alien until you've tried it a couple times.

The only way the Remington would be ineffective is if it was never used.

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Originally posted by Sugarpie

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Yeah, but it stands to reason that every planet that has living creatures, only one of those creatures is going to be dominant and capable of space travel, so they are all going to look more or less alike. Just like on earth, se vary, but have the same basic shape and features.

Why would they all look alike? Humans are bipedal because of our environment. And we're fairly abnormal in that trait. It's ...unwise to assume that the entire Universe all developed based upon a handful of principles from one planet. What of planets with increased gravity? They probably use 3-4 or more legs. Or, roll around like an armoured blob. Planets with less gravity or thicker atmospheres? The aliens might float around as a jellyfish or bird.

Why is only one species of alien going to be dominant? What says that aliens have the same motivators and desires as we (as in earth creatures) do? Just because earth is a hostile place and things kill each other doesn't mean that the rest of the Universe traipses about with knives and fanged maws.

Hell, most of the world now doesn't actively seek to kill each other. If another planet, or system, or galaxy or two had a few million or billion years more than us, who knows what levels of cooperation and acceptance the Universe might hold.

Not to patronize you, but the Universe is old. According to the Cosmic Calendar- compressing the history of the Universe down into one Earth year- humans first started painting on rocks and caves and such about 2 minutes before the end of the year.

That's a long time for the rest of the Universe to become more advanced than us.

I mean, we only developed a system of space exploration in the last third of the last second of the year.
They could very easily look upon us and our space system as we look upon chimps and sticks, or perhaps even single-celled organisms and their flagella.

Sagandesh.

I think SP is just trying to hide the truth, that's all. We're on to you AlienPie and your hivemind overlords.

If aliens had no interest in attacking us and were truly here on a mission of peace, the hostility applied by people shooting at them probably put an end to that. I'll stick to my theory that hillbillies have doomed man kind.

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Originally posted by Davey45

If aliens had no interest in attacking us and were truly here on a mission of peace, the hostility applied by people shooting at them probably put an end to that. I'll stick to my theory that hillbillies have doomed man kind.

Until they react, we don't know how they viewed being shot at.
When we're pricked by a thorn, we don't seek to destroy all bushes.
When an infant hits us, we don't slaughter it.

Maybe they're functionally immortal, and life itself has no hazard to it. They could view being shot at as a non-issue- not even know that the people were trying to kill them.
Maybe they see it as a lashing out, growing pains of an infant civilization, barely capable of traveling outside it's own atmosphere. Let alone across Galaxies like the rest of the Universe's inhabitant.

Until they Deathray the entire planet, you can't bias yourself towards their intentions.

With a vast intelligence, you'd think they would be reasonable to understand such reactions from inferior beings. They would probably just laugh it off or take pity on us.

// edit: Since B has since responded.

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Originally posted by B

When an infant hits us, we don't slaughter it.

I saw SP curb-stomp a baby. She just grabbed it out of the lady's carriage and destroyed the poor thing.

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Originally posted by Kanzen

I saw SP curb-stomp a baby. She just grabbed it out of the lady's carriage and destroyed the poor thing.

Sounds like something she would do. Being Canadian and all.