346
Reporting in good faith
(lemmy.world)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2024
346 points (96.3% liked)
Political Memes
5360 readers
2272 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I should perhaps clarify.
I wouldn’t at all be shocked to find out trump really is a reptilian or something. It would explain so much.
But the reality is that while aliens almost certainly exist…any with the ability to come here would likely have the ability to remotely detect the radioactive isotopes from the hundreds of times we’ve nuked ourselves.
In short they’d nope the fuck out on account of us being raging psychos.
When we achieve the first jump to warp speed, then we'll make the first contact with Spock.
It's history‽
Would these greys not have experimented with nuclear explosives and/or had nuclear incidents in their past? Surely they would look at us the same way we would look at the English and French hurling huge rocks at each other in the middle ages were we to time travel. There are plenty of reasons for intelligent life to skip past earth but I doubt a history of nuclear science is one of them.
Presumably.
But are you really comparing to a rock that might kill a few people (or dead cows that might kill a few more, maybe ruin some water,) to a weapon whose intent is to destroy entire cities?
It’s doubtful that the amount of radioisotopes would be dispersed by industrial accidents, both because it’s reasonable to assume steps would be taken to prevent it, and simply because the volume isn’t anywhere near the same.
Also, consider that pure FTL physically can’t exist given our current understanding; and it’s very unlikely we have an understanding that is that far off. So it’s likely any trip here would largely be one way, at least until we reverse engineer the technology.
Which is the real reason they almost certainly don’t come. A relativist transport is really just a really, really big missile. And of we’re not concerned with a zero/zero intercept (ie no flip over….) it would likely make a nuke look tame.
Still if we’d nuke ourselves…. Yeah. Well the mirror universe version of Vulcans making first contact is probably more accurate…
In any case that leaves coming here to wipe us out (cuz we’re also almost certainly not the only genocidal assholes,) or proselytize (also almost certainly not the only religious nutters.)
And my favorite… the ones that try to proselytize and then turn genocidal when we say “no”.
Just so long as we're not hunters in a dark forest...