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Author Topic: What has, and would happen, realistically, at first contact?  (Read 39410 times)

Graknorke

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Re: What has, and would happen, realistically, at first contact?
« Reply #270 on: September 15, 2012, 05:37:31 pm »

Are you truly that cruel?


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We should instead just throw the residents of the more bloodthirsty corners of 4chan on their internet.

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It's the same way you just shoot a horse stuck in barbed wire rather than try to stab it to death with a butter knife. The quicker the experience is, the less cruel it is. And I'm pretty sure the aliens losing their communications and pornography would be a slower loss for them that leaving because new words have been made up to insult their species.
And then had their internet flooded with bizarre human pornography. I reckon we could probably beat aliens in a weird-off.
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Re: What has, and would happen, realistically, at first contact?
« Reply #271 on: September 15, 2012, 05:39:35 pm »

It's the same way you just shoot a horse stuck in barbed wire rather than try to stab it to death with a butter knife.
That's a terrible analogy, just get some wire cutters. Jesus. Anything goes wrong and you guys just jump straight to the mercy killing. Makes me wonder if you all aren't psychopaths.
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Re: What has, and would happen, realistically, at first contact?
« Reply #272 on: September 15, 2012, 05:41:50 pm »

It's the same way you just shoot a horse stuck in barbed wire rather than try to stab it to death with a butter knife.
That's a terrible analogy, just get some wire cutters. Jesus. Anything goes wrong and you guys just jump straight to the mercy killing. Makes me wonder if you all aren't psychopaths.
Also likening a sapient space faring species to horses.

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Re: What has, and would happen, realistically, at first contact?
« Reply #273 on: September 15, 2012, 05:46:00 pm »

It's the same way you just shoot a horse stuck in barbed wire rather than try to stab it to death with a butter knife.
That's a terrible analogy, just get some wire cutters. Jesus. Anything goes wrong and you guys just jump straight to the mercy killing. Makes me wonder if you all aren't psychopaths.
Aren't psychopaths?
I guess I ought to go set the guys straight on that one.
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Re: What has, and would happen, realistically, at first contact?
« Reply #274 on: September 15, 2012, 05:49:07 pm »

It's the same way you just shoot a horse stuck in barbed wire rather than try to stab it to death with a butter knife.
That's a terrible analogy, just get some wire cutters. Jesus. Anything goes wrong and you guys just jump straight to the mercy killing. Makes me wonder if you all aren't psychopaths.
But that is what happens. I saw it in a documentary once, and television never lies.
It might have been something more serious, but I probably wouldn't remember.

All I really remember about it was the guy explaining about putting down horses before he shot it, then that there was this woman who spent pretty much the whole thing trying to be socially accepted by the horses. It wasn't really very good or interesting.
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Re: What has, and would happen, realistically, at first contact?
« Reply #275 on: September 15, 2012, 05:59:22 pm »

Probably a broken leg, they are technically fixable, but are rarely ever worth it to do so.
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