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Burntwaffle July 2nd, 2013 1:35pm

Hypothetical: Humans discover intelligent alien life that is less advanced than us. Eventually, we get the ability to visit them. Do you expect us to be overall helpful or harmful to them?

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CBunny Oakland, CA
07/03/13 4:51 pm

I guess it depends on who we send to visit them, but I think if we sent the right people, the aliens could definitely learn from our mistakes & flesh out the sustainable technology concepts we've started (assuming they have comparable resources).

gtgconfused
07/03/13 2:59 am

IMO we'd just use them as lab rats, steal whatever natural resources they have and destroy their world if they don't adopt our ways of thinking.

lesil Colorado
07/02/13 6:59 pm

I assume scientists will be the one's visiting, so I don't think it will be quite as bad as the explorers of our past. However, I assume we will take some of their resources or come to live on their planet.

Aliggan China and Florida
07/02/13 4:03 pm

It's the same thing that would happen in Disney's Pocahontas or Avatar.

rightway101 the thought provoker
07/02/13 10:03 am

The thing is I'm not sure how we would think of these aliens. Would we regard them as sentient beings deserving of life or just animals, and would we be right in believing so. These aliens won't have the same form of consciousness as us,

rightway101 the thought provoker
07/02/13 10:06 am

They'll be totally foreign to our understanding. As I said in a previous poll, we may feel some sympathy towards them, but they probably won't be capable of sympathy, or any other human feeling. It won't be like two countries meeting, it'll be like

rightway101 the thought provoker
07/02/13 10:07 am

Humans and whales meeting, actually more like humans and bacteria meeting. They would be totally different in every way.

UrGirlfriendz New Jersey
07/02/13 9:48 am

As with everything else, we humans will always find a way to screw it up.

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gleeky1
07/02/13 8:46 am

I would say harmful because of how we have treated different races of people in the past.

Medic1 Arkansas
07/02/13 8:05 am

Same thing as the Indians. Disease and enslave and then take over any natural resource they have. History tends to repeat itself

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Mooo42Q Thats Nucking Futs
07/02/13 7:17 am

Im sure we'd give them some awful diseases and then enslave them.

roger78
07/02/13 7:08 am

We will try to help. Think of them as the American Indians.