Alien nomads could destroy earth

Oberon · 10-04-15, 04:29 PM

Wait...I've seen this one, Will Smith saves us all.

Still, the guy isn't wrong, I mean this has been said by people since 1898, compared to advanced lifeforms we are but cattle or vermin, to be horded and farmed or exterminated as needed.

Chances are though any advanced species would send out Von Neumann machines ahead to terraform any planet they wanted to colonise, or to harvest any planet they wanted the materials from.

Still, it's a bit late now, anyone within about a 100 lightyears will know of our existence or learn of it within the next decade or two, and it'll take them at least a century to travel to us assuming that they have near light speed propulsion systems. If they don't then it'll be a magnitude longer before they reach us.

By this point I would hope that we would at least have got a footprint on Mars, and our technology in terms of AI and human to machine connections would be much further ahead that we might not exist as homio-sapiens anymore having moved into transhumanism and to posthumanism.

It's both incredibly exciting and absolutely terrifying at the same time.

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10-04-15, 04:29 PM	#3
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Wait...I've seen this one, Will Smith saves us all. Still, the guy isn't wrong, I mean this has been said by people since 1898, compared to advanced lifeforms we are but cattle or vermin, to be horded and farmed or exterminated as needed. Chances are though any advanced species would send out Von Neumann machines ahead to terraform any planet they wanted to colonise, or to harvest any planet they wanted the materials from. Still, it's a bit late now, anyone within about a 100 lightyears will know of our existence or learn of it within the next decade or two, and it'll take them at least a century to travel to us assuming that they have near light speed propulsion systems. If they don't then it'll be a magnitude longer before they reach us. By this point I would hope that we would at least have got a footprint on Mars, and our technology in terms of AI and human to machine connections would be much further ahead that we might not exist as homio-sapiens anymore having moved into transhumanism and to posthumanism. It's both incredibly exciting and absolutely terrifying at the same time.