How will we find aliens?

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Assuming that they're benevolent, how will we make First Contact?

Through chance encounter
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43%
They will meet us before we have full capability to leave the solar system
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7%
We will make contact with another primitive race when we develop an FTL drive
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14%
We will locate and make contact with each other in the voids of space itself
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7%
Active programs such as SETI will make contact with alien life
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7%
Other
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21%
 
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How will we find aliens?

Post by RayCav of ASVS »

Let's assume that there are aliens out there, and that they're not hostile, but rather benevolent. How will we meet them?
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It depends on what you mean by contact. I think SETI will find the first evidence of ET civilization, but any kind of communication will probably occur by chance, a very, very long time from now, if it ever happens at all.
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We won't. Any aliens that are out there will either be so advanced that they will have no need or wish to communicate with us, or so primative that we will have no need or wish to communicate with them.
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There have been billions of years for species to evolve. They will likely find us first.
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Simple, go to the border of Arizona and Mexico. You'll find plenty there.

If not, ask Priesto or omegaLancer. They seem to be the experts here on UFOs. I think Priesto was in fact abducted at one point. Once the aliens carefully examined his intelligence (or lack thereof), they concluded that Earth was full of fundie morons, and decided not to make contact. Everybody tell Priesto thanks.
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Post by RayCav of ASVS »

Enlightenment wrote:We won't. Any aliens that are out there will either be so advanced that they will have no need or wish to communicate with us, or so primative that we will have no need or wish to communicate with them.
I'll put you down for the "aliens will make contact with us" and "we will make contact with primitive aliens" options then
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Post by RayCav of ASVS »

USAF Ace wrote:Simple, go to the border of Arizona and Mexico. You'll find plenty there.
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Of course aliens can be found in abundance there! Not to mention California or any other area west of the Missisppi!

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If we do find aliens, they must have travelled for decades, perhaps even centuries. We'll have to come to them.
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I think it would be a chance encounter.
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