Aliens among us.....

[bluestarultor]

Reminds me of a short story where a guy gets talking to a space bear and finds out that the common cold was their attempt to wipe out humanity thousands of years ago. XD

Really good one. "Nasty, Brutish, And..." by Harry Turtledove.

[Thadius]

You silly humans and your silly 'intelligent life other than us in our UNIverse' way of thinking.

Why bother only searching your universe? There are plenty of other universes out there if you know how to breach the barriers, filled with alternate versions of you. No need to gamble with checking other planets, just breach a random universe, and if it's not the one you want, try another!

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Thadius

You silly humans and your silly 'intelligent life other than us in our UNIverse' way of thinking.

Why bother only searching your universe? There are plenty of other universes out there if you know how to breach the barriers, filled with alternate versions of you. No need to gamble with checking other planets, just breach a random universe, and if it's not the one you want, try another!

But that's boring. All you need is a gravity phone on each end and you can talk like it's a local call. Where's your sense of adventure? :P

[Overcast]

Indeed, no matter how many times I meet me I'm still a human and for the most part the most fun I can get out of other me is an evening of deviance probably very much like this.

I want strange psychologies, anatomies, histories, cultures. I want to see how civilization develops when you aren't like one of us. If it is even all that different.

[krogothwolf]

Man, going around and destroying earth in other universes gets boring after awhile, I want to start murdering damn xenos!

[Thadius]

Are you sure about that?

Any race that exists out there that is capable of crossing vast interstellar distances to meet us would also be capable of quite a lot of other things. Destroying all life on earth and rendering it inhabitable would be a trifle to such beings.

And nobody said they would have to be nice. Like, at all. Hell they might do such things for fun or to relieve stress.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Thadius

Are you sure about that?

Any race that exists out there that is capable of crossing vast interstellar distances to meet us would also be capable of quite a lot of other things. Destroying all life on earth and rendering it inhabitable would be a trifle to such beings.

And nobody said they would have to be nice. Like, at all. Hell they might do such things for fun or to relieve stress.

Hey, at least a few of us might survive as pets or in zoos. It's a better shot than our own sun is going to give us.

[krogothwolf]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Hey, at least a few of us might survive as pets or in zoos. It's a better shot than our own sun is going to give us.

Coward! If they're like that, I'm going to make sure I choke at least one of them before I die.

Personally, I hope we meet a friendly type of alien. Then we can storm their craft and take it over and bring war to them! Burning the Universe in the process!

[Overcast]

Of course I'm sure, I already said that I wanted US to be the exact creatures you are talking about. A being does not need to have interstellar travel to have all the things I want to see in alien life. They just need to be alien life.

I'm tired of being told that in the grand scheme of things that humanity is so small, I want us to be Cuthulu this time.

[bluestarultor]

Who said anything about cowardice? So long as the species survives, there is time to take over the universe. :P