OT:Why Aliens dont come here

[Colonel]

Simple Answer, everytime they come here they find us either blowing each other up with Nukes, planning to blow each other up or they run into dumb hicks most of the time....


So why do you think they dont come here?

(This is assuming that they exist.)

[Gandalf Parker]

I saw a note about the ship they are about to drop onto Titan (a Saturn Moon) which has a fairly good chance of supporting life. They even allowed that "in the event that the lander becomes surrounded by aliens" they included a CD which will play wordless music by some french guys.

Now THAT is just plain MEAN. I dont mean the music, Im sure its fine. But if a probe landed here and made noise.. what would we do? We would spend years and a ton of money trying to decode it. Wordless music as a first contact message? Not cool guys.

[Arkcon]

Well now Gandalf, that just begs the question, "If you have the technology to explore space beyond your own solar system, why do it?" You shouldn't be short of natural resources if you can do it, there should be abundant living space in your own system, you pretty much do it just to see whats out there. If there's sapient life on Titan, we've save them the trouble of starting a SETI program, at least.

I have SE4 inspired question now. Often, when you start a game, you find a system with one of those nice green star planets. Our solar system seems to lack that.

But if there was another rock oxygen planet here, how close would we be to establishing a colony? We don't have near the technology now, but if we had the incentive, would we be closer, or be there already?

[Colonel]

You related to SEIV so I give sort of an answer... In order for us to establish a colony the planet has to be nearly the same as ours.... ie needs to be in almost the same orbitial pattern aswell as tempture and most importantly nearly the same mass. If there is to much mass or to little we will either be extremely heavy or floating around.....Besides it would need a stable core and not to much volcanic activity....

[Raging Deadstar]

Colonel said:
Besides it would need a stable core and not to much volcanic activity....

I don't know...Nothing Creates Survival of the Fitest like frequent Volcanic Activity

Some will call this unethical, Some will call this genetic cleansing. I personally call it "Don't live near a smegging Volcano!"

[Timstone]

Raging Deadstar said:
I personally call it "Don't live near a smegging Volcano!"

No, never live next a vulcano, your icecream will melt much too fast. And that would be a waste.

[capnq]

My theory is that we're sort of a wilderness preserve. Pre-starflight technological civilizations are so rare that they're set aside for their scientists to study.

[Will]

Colonel said:
You related to SEIV so I give sort of an answer... In order for us to establish a colony the planet has to be nearly the same as ours.... ie needs to be in almost the same orbitial pattern aswell as tempture and most importantly nearly the same mass. If there is to much mass or to little we will either be extremely heavy or floating around.....Besides it would need a stable core and not to much volcanic activity....

No, the real reason is because the year isn't 2400 yet.

[TerranC]

The real reason is because the Raelians haven't finished building their compound yet.

[Atrocities]

Why Aliens Do Not Come Here:

1. Because we make movies about them always being evil.
2. Because they know we will kill them and steal their technology
3. Becasue we engineered pond scum
4. Because we are the aliens to the aliens
5. There are no aliens