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[MetalSlimeHunt]

The nuclear fuel onboard the Voyager probes is going to dip below the minimum power threshold sometime between 2020-2025, so the chances of alien life ever finding them are slim to none.

[MonkeyHead]

Ill just drop this here, for relevance, and just in case.

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[10ebbor10]

The nuclear fuel onboard the Voyager probes is going to dip below the minimum power threshold sometime between 2020-2025, so the chances of alien life ever finding them are slim to none.

The chance of alien life ever finding them where slim to none from the moment they launched. Space is rather big.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The nuclear fuel onboard the Voyager probes is going to dip below the minimum power threshold sometime between 2020-2025, so the chances of alien life ever finding them are slim to none.

The chance of alien life ever finding them where slim to none from the moment they launched. Space is rather big.

Yes, but it's greater while they're still broadcasting. The signals encompass a much larger area than the probe itself.

[10ebbor10]

The nuclear fuel onboard the Voyager probes is going to dip below the minimum power threshold sometime between 2020-2025, so the chances of alien life ever finding them are slim to none.

The chance of alien life ever finding them where slim to none from the moment they launched. Space is rather big.

Yes, but it's greater while they're still broadcasting. The signals encompass a much larger area than the probe itself.

Then again, their signal is probably outmatched by the signals from Earth, which have been going for longer.(Though they are still weaker).
However, the chance of intelligent alien life ever meeting us is near nihil.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Then again, their signal is probably outmatched by the signals from Earth, which have been going for longer.(Though they are still weaker).
However, the chance of intelligent alien life ever meeting us is near nihil.

Now you can't say that for certain. The chance of us ever meeting intelligent alien life is directly proportional to the period of time the human race exists as an intelligent entity, which is at this time an unknown factor that neither of us can accurately predict.

[kaijyuu]

If we never break the speed of light barrier, there's still a chance of us meeting aliens, just that one of our generation ships will bump into them and it will be like Ender's Game (with us as the Buggers).

[Guardian G.I.]

• An alien civilization which is significantly more advanced that humans accidentally stumbles upon Earth, find humans to be primitive non-sapient creatures, ignores them and leaves.
• An alien civilization which is significantly more advanced that humans accidentally stumbles upon Earth and find humans to be primitive non-sapient creatures. The aliens establish an outpost on the planet, periodically wiping out human pests near their bases.
• An alien civilization which is significantly more advanced that humans accidentally stumbles upon Earth and find humans to be primitive non-sapient creatures. The aliens stay away from the planet and carefully research the Terran lifeforms.
• An alien civilization stumbles upon Earth, find humans and identify them as sapient. Because of the colossal physical, biological and psychological difference between the species, aliens and humans can't understand each other, with various possible outcomes.
• An alien civilization finds Earth by tracing the radio signals being emitted by the planet. The aliens destroy Earth for disturbing peace and clogging the airwaves around the Solar System with television signals and strange undecipherable messages.
• An alien civilization finds Earth by tracing the radio signals being emitted by the planet. The existence of a strange anomaly in space - a planet emitting strange undecipherable radio signals confuse them. They destroy Earth, just to be sure.
• Humans are caught in a cross-fire between several alien civilizations at war with each other.
• An alien civilization stumbles upon Earth and sends a expedition to the surface. The aliens succumb to Terran bacteria and die.
• An alien civilization of a non-carbon based species stumbles upon Earth. The existence of a strange anomaly in space - a planet with carbon-based life confuse them, because it contradicts all their scientific knowledge. Eventually, the aliens decide that their scanning equipment malfunctioned and leave the system, labeling it as being "devoid of life"

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[darkrider2]

I think they might be capable of at least theorizing that carbon based life exists, humans have theorized about silicon based life already.

[kaijyuu]

Well, "sapient" has a really shitty definition. Our "sapience" could be extremely mundane to an alien species. If they come along and look at our big cities and whatnot, what's to stop them from thinking "oh, one of these invasive species. Let's wipe them out before they ruin their planet's biodiversity."

[Willfor]

Instead of the Borg coming back in time through some kind of magical thing never referenced again, they will simply launch a second attack on earth. Then the movie would end about five minutes later. Picard's first action movie would have been a bust from having a twenty minute film, and the studio would have put pressure on him to no longer try to be an action role in the films. The next Star Trek film would have done something similar to Wrath of Khan to immediately try to recover the franchise's movie series, and instead of slowly getting crappier they would have set an upward trajectory for the films. J.J. Abrams would not have been brought onboard because they would already have been successful enough. The success of the movie franchise would have made them try for another small screen series, and so long as Rick Berman was not at the helm it might have had a chance.

Wait ... did I misread the thread title?

[Guardian G.I.]

Speaking more precisely, it's impossible to predict how will the aliens react because of the colossal physical, biological and psychological difference between them and us.
Anything goes. This doesn't mean that all aliens will be ultimately hostile, but this does mean that all aliens will not be ultimately friendly.

[Loud Whispers]

Well, "sapient" has a really shitty definition. Our "sapience" could be extremely mundane to an alien species. If they come along and look at our big cities and whatnot, what's to stop them from thinking "oh, one of these invasive species. Let's wipe them out before they ruin their planet's biodiversity."

HA HA TOO LATE ALIENS

[Scoops Novel]

All? I doubt that.

[King DZA]

And then Earth's economy becomes based around being interstellar pimps for squids.

Maybe there's just something wrong with me, but this sounds incredibly fun. Then again, so does anything else that gives me an excuse to bitch slap a squid.

As for first contact with extraterrestrials, I have enough hope in humanity to believe that the majority of us would be able to handle things without completely losing our shit, especially after all the initial hype died down. I also think that any beings advanced enough to be able to contact Earth in the first place are intelligent enough to realize that the entirety of the human race should not be judged by those who do completely lose their shit. I think that with a little understanding and rational thought on both sides, it would be an amazingly exciting and insightful experience for all. Then we can have a massive human+alien+squid orgy to solidify our beautiful interstellar friendship.

/happyending