Aliens Found?? - Strong signal from system 95 light years away

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Triumph

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More than likely it's nothing.

However, if we ever happen to find life that close to us, the implication would be that life is richly abundant in the galaxy/universe.

I would much prefer we find nothing and the only threat to us is ourselves.

Are you kidding? The best way for all of us to get along is to find an enemy we can all hate with impunity. It's a great bonding experience.
 
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Vic

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This is good, but even better if you read it in Bender's voice.
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BENDER 2016!!!!!
 

werepossum

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Prolly just making sure civilians dont get into a frenzy. expect the invasion soon. Tom Cruise / Will smith will be pulled out of retirement to deal with this menace
Pretty sure no advanced civilization wants to rule a planet where the most powerful polity is trying to decide whether to be led by Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. Asteroid, maybe. Invasion, no way. That is not something any advanced civilization is going to want to get on its boots.
 

FerrelGeek

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But you forgot about all the hot alien women that are looking for exotic forms of pleasure. I want to get it on with some freaky alien woman!

What threat would there be? Sounds irrational since it's logical that if aliens needed precious resources, our universe is overly abundant with them. They could harvest platinum, gold..etc from many other lifeless worlds. Water is abundant in the form of ice, it's everywhere...well everything is everywhere. Any Type 2 civilization or higher has no need for biological slaves or any of the such.

Furthermore, if any aliens that could make it here want to destroy us, all they have to do is hurl an asteroid of a minimal size with the right trajectory from anywhere in our solar system or beyond and with enough velocity and gravity calculations, we would never know they were there or have time to respond. That's all it takes, no need for war ships or them risking their lives, just an energy supply capable of harvesting and throwing a giant rock at us. Send some robots in the wake of aftermath to harvest whatever....but i'd say it's still way easier to just mine a lifeless planet.
 
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HeXen

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Are you kidding? The best way for all of us to get along is to find an enemy we can all hate with impunity. It's a great bonding experience.
I dunno, even back when everyone hated Germany, we still found a way to hate Russia too.