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What would happen within the first 24 hours?

We'd have an Arrival situation, or we would be annihilated.

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I'd fap 3-4 times.

>What would happen within the first 24 hours?

A brand new form of racism and xenophobia would be born.

24 hours would pass

After contact:
I would imagine they would be peaceful because the tactics of war never rely on meeting a new opponent and immediately fighting them. Typically you want to learn more about them.

I would imagine they would send a 'representative' to try and communicate in person with our leaders within the first 4 hours or so. Nobody would be asleep on earth as everything would be televized and people would be nervous to meet our technological superiors.
By the 10th hour, the translation process is well under way. Our people are trying to understand the representative and he, us.
By the 16th hour, we probably have an understanding of basic words used by the alien. Its important to know that linguistics is probably going to be his primary method of communication.
By the 20th hour, we likely have an understanding of why they have made contact.
By the 24th hour, every human has been atomized and converted into organic soil to grow a particular arctic fruit on their planet.

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Nothing. Looking at real disasters like car accidents, large fires, and even things like 9/11 we see people are much more calm and cooperative than they show in the movies.

Not to mention the fact we've basically been preparing ourselves for it since War of the Worlds, so we'd probably just go 'that's cool.'

hour one, the spooks show up and put the little fuckers in garbage backs.

hour five, they are dropped out of a c130 above the north pole

Activate XCOM protocol Commander

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What if aliens are real but their physical composition make them invisible to the human senses and vice versa?

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prove it

Mass protests and overthrowing drumpf as quickly as possible before he does something stupid and start interstellar war.

well it makes more sense at least

What we would do is also dependent on what they would do.
A list of possibilities:
1) They stay silent and wait for our move, if it's the wrong one they become very angry we didn't guess right.
2) They try to communicate by kidnapping random people and playing obsessively a simple music gig and for some reason we think that is friendly (pic related)
3) They start to shoot everything that moves (that's bad)
4) They make bad jokes about other alien races we now nothing about
5) They dump all their garbage and just fly away.

If we assume they are out there and able to reach our planet, then they know us pretty good: we've been broadcasting radio, internet, phone calls, tv nonstop for at least 100 years.
Still, you're right, if they are able to meet us like that, they are also able to wipe us out without even getting close to us, thus without giving us a single chance to defend ourselves.

Realistically, if they wanted to kill us, they probably wouldn't send fighter ships, but they'd bomb us with nukes or kinetic weapons, or just engineer a virus that kills every human without harming the environment. The only reason we would have to fear them is that they may have just found us randomly, and may return home and tell their friends to bomb the shit out of us.
If they came in peace, we probably wouldn't have to go through the trouble of deciphering their language, because they could just hover above Earth and collect a ton of data which they could use to understand our language and learn to communicate with us. If eavesdropping on our communications without knowing the standards would prove too difficult, they would probably ask us to let them learn our language, because doing it the opposite way would be just retarded, considering humans would be less technologically advanced, and we'd have a much smaller dataset to work with.
A first contact would probably affect people's religious beliefs, since it would be pretty hard to keep believing in Christianity, for example, when another species in another corner of the universe supposedly created by the same god has never heard of any god similar to the god of Christianity. Some lunatics would probably deduce from this that they must be a creation of Satan then, and they have to be killed. It would be even more interesting if they had a religion very similar to one of Earth's religions, like if it had a Jesus like figure who too was crucified, and had the same ten commandments, etc.

This is correct.

We should be hostile immediately just in case.

Agree

Thanks, Multivac

If we assume life evolved elsewhere like with natural selection... and the butterfly effect applies to things like evolutionary trees...

There's no telling just how different they might be from us. They could be so radically different we would have trouble understanding the 'idea' of them.

For instance, things like protecting territory, friends, enemies are useful concepts for things that evolved from bacteria that synthesise food from their surroundings and light.

What if they don't?

What if somewhere billions of years ago a small change in the 'path' of evolution leads to massive unpredictable changes billions of years in the future?

What if they don't even understand what the concept of other beings are... what if they don't understand destruction, visitation, invention.. weapons don't exist to them... but they kill by creating.. they eat by starving?

I think the ideas that they will be like another earth-like civilisation with wierd heads and more advanced tech is a bit presumptuous.

anal probes for everyone!

Well that was just implied.

Judging by the reaction to that Orson Welles thing, nothing good.

>implying people wont panic and descend into anarchy
>meanwhile group of top scientists working on supervirus that can defeat them accidentally unleash it's incomplete variant by forgetting to close the door of the lab furthering the disaster
>also vampires appear and its leader falls in love with a human female but she actually loves a warewolf or maybe not so they refuse to help humanity because love triangle issues
>the aliens are actually good too and friendly but the rich white capitalists want war and its up to few youths to stop them
>there's master of jewjitsu helping them too, a gay muslim too

Muslims would bomb them

I'd fuck your mom

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What movie is this? Sounds like the best shit ever

Honestly the beginning of Arrival might actually be a fairly realistic portrayal of what would happen. Governments would immediately cordon off the area and potentially declare martial law as society stopped everything it was doing to watch the proceedings.

That's assuming they came and didn't attack. If they attacked it'd probably be annihilation.

So exactly what said.

Oh and humanity would immediately start dying from the arrival of foreign bacteria.

>engineer a virus to kill us
Why do you think they continue to abduct us

Kinda sounds like freaks of nature, but not entirely, because everyone is some fucked up monster from the beginning in that movie, so vampires don't just appear.

>The arrival of foreign bacteria.

Even if aliens are of the benevolent sort. We still have to be vigilant against this kind of shit. Even unintentionally, the aliens can still spread foreign bacteria and viruses on Earth. It'd be like what happened to the natives in the Americas when the first settlers came. Disease fucked them over. I imagine we'd suffer a similar fate if aliens came and brought their shit to our planet.

Space faring creatures would have taken steps to not spread infection.

>implying it wouldn't be a good thing to lose 80% of our population

I never liked this reasoning. Just because they have spaceships doesn't mean they're not total fucking idiots in other ways.

More likely, a spacefaring race is so genetically different from us that there's no risk of zoonosis. It'd be like worrying about catch squid measels.

Here's the thing-there is literally no reason to get into a fight with us. There are much more easily accessed sources of pretty much anything in the solar system that earth-need heavy metals? Go crack open some asteroids. Need water? Megatons of it floating around not locked inside of a steep gravity well.

We always assume too that we'll be contacted by some alien socrates, but i think it's likely to be an alien long-haul trucker or merchant shipman, whose main reaction is probably amusement and might enjoy the status of being a celebrity on our planet. I could see it now, some strange six-armed thing in a crude atmospheric containment suit making the talk show circuit and doing donuts in its spaceship over NASA's launch yards,leaving earth with a cago hold full of keys to the city and Eiffel tower models, which he excitedly dumps on his bosses desk and comments "Hot shit grektar, I found a primitive planet and they were pretty nice!" And then we get a fuckload of alien tourists checking us out and randomly dropping in everywhere, to our immense confusion and consternation.

The creatures would have taken steps to avoid infecting *themselves*.

With replicator technology, we'd have nothing they need.

Of prime importance to them is to prevent the possibility that some crazy alien race could later become powerful enough to harm them.

Christians kinda went through that when Europeans began exploring world and came across people who had never heard of Christianity, their response was basically "You people need God in your lives". Though I imagine that would be much less likely to happen with alien contact given the aliens superiority and different attitudes towards religion in the modern day.

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They'll bring Jesus to us WH40K style. Be prepared to convert

>What if they don't even understand what the concept of other beings are... what if they don't understand destruction, visitation, invention..
Then they wouldn't have been able to invent long distance spacial flight, silly.

This is variable. If the size of the arrival craft exceeds the capacity for spooks to do their job, then they won't be able to accomplish anything. Worse yet, if a large alien craft arrives and sits on top of a major city center. Good fucking luck getting the government to send spooks to deal with that situation. In a matter of minutes, the entire fucking planet knows about it--and in less than 30 minutes, you have effectively made over several million people actively participants of first contact. Then all ancillary citizens living around the population center where the ship comes and hovers, is now an active participant. Then people will drop their shit and drive/fly to first contact city, thereby having more participants.

Spooks only work if the size of the first contact craft is small enough for them to be able to affect it. If a city shows up from space and chills over DC, every first contact hush hush plan goes straight into the trash; no ifs or buts.

Basically. After all, have you ever given a tree the common cold? No. The likelihood of them sharing enough genetics with us is miniscule enough that we shouldn't worry too much. Of course better safe than sorry I suppose.

That only projects waves 100 light years out btw. If they happened to have warped to us at 150 light years away, they will have missed pretty much all of Nick At Nite

I'm not sure if I've ever given a tree a cold. No idea how to tell if a tree HAS a cold, not where it got it from.

that shit was debunked thirty years ago lmao

/d/ would figure out to have sex with them within 24 minutes. By the end of 24 hours they'd have explored some pretty dark corners of alien fetishism.

>tfw no JAEGERS?

THIS!

i would probably crack open a cold one with the boys

world peace

I work for metropolitan public transit agency and I guarantee you that the executives would decide we needed special alien landing site service, we'd run a holiday schedule, and I'd be conscripted to stand around in a train station telling people who don't read the schedules which trains will go to the landing site, and which trains will take them to work.