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If we discover alien society...who do we send?
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It is if you're denying someone else those resources. Didn't you watch Goldfinger?
If you want to deny them the resources, you just nuke it from orbit with dirty bombs. Salt the earth IN SPACE.
It's the only way to be sure.
Uh, being 'the most powerful' doesn't really mean much in a nuclear world.
Well, I mean... The U.S. Military is currently regarded as the "most powerful". I'm sure if an alien ship parked in our backyard, they would be the ones to deal with it.
Does that imply if a spaceship hovered over Madagascar's airspace, the US would still butt in to negotiate and not consult whoever is running the country?
"The US should not cross our borders to speak with these beings. They must respect our sover..."
"Shut up, Mr Ambassador. This is important. Holy shit! Aliens!"
I don't think the idea is far fetched.
We attacked the Moon, for Pete's sake.
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We've all seen District 9. We cannot allow aliens anywhere near Africa.
You know, because of the Nigerians.
I am pretty sure it's just so that all those smart guys don't say "They should have sent a poet."
EDIT: I just realized that this was pretty far back...but nobody mentioned this at the time.
You send representatives from different countries/areas and a solid scientific/anthropological backup team.
Also, if aliens landed anywhere on Earth, you'd better believe we in the US would go stick our wangs into the matter. It's kind of our thing.
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Unless it's in Israel, in which case we call everybody up and tell them to not move a muscle.
Really, though, I guess it would screw with things if the aliens picked Mecca or Jerusalem instead of New York City or wherever, wouldn't it? That'd be a powder keg of huge proportions.
StarCraft II User Name: DeadMenRise
He's the president of our hearts. And a robot to boot.
Well, yeah, until the threat of alien plague emerged.
Then Madagascar would just shut down everything.
While sending a couple of carrier groups to "consult"
The person we send will be like the celebrity who 'turns on' a power station or the LHC. They push a button which does nothing but switch a dial from off to on. Heck, yhe aliens will likely send some diplomat or celebrity to meet our diplomat or celebrity and then behind the scenes scientists, mathematicians and engineers will do all the real work.
To answer those questions in order:
This Galaxy belongs to the Emperor. Anyone who opposes that is an enemy you must destroy.
But seriously, if in the future there *is* an interstellar Earth Space Navy, it would probably fall to the Captain of whatever ship happens along this Class M planet. Star Trek isn't that nuts, in the age of sail ship captains did double as diplomats since they could go over a year without seeing home.
Once we've had our First Contact, whatever political entity that controlls these starships (democratic Earth Alliance, Empire of Man, whatever) would very quickly institute first contact protocols that would be presided over by the newly created "Ministry for Extraterrestrial affairs" or State Department which would have a crash-course in training buerocrats as interstellar diplomats.
So after the first first contact, it might be a pretty dull routine handled by highly trained buerocrats advised by xenobiologists, if we're talking about peaceful species.
Margaret Thatcher
We stopped doing this on earth. Why would we do this in space where it's even less convenient?
It would make more sense to start hocking our shit off as authentic human art/chairs/widgets on them while sucking up to them in order to get access to their markets.
Absolutely.
That's why you blow it up in a controlled explosion and harvest the materials from the rubble produced.
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I mentioned Jenna Jameson. Same difference, right?
Yes. I believe there was a crack about her knowing everything she needed to because she can see outer-space from her house.
They see Jean Luc and thinks will go smooth.
God help us if they read the internet and ask to speak to 4chan though.
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