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    Inspired by Peter Jackson's new film 'district 9' i thought i'd offer up a similar scenario:

    Alien refugees from a dead/dying planet arrive on earth seeking asylum but most of their leadership has disappeared and the rest of the aliens dont know anything about how to use or operate alien machinery or technology-similar to how most of us wouldnt know how to steer a cargo ship.
    Assuming they dont have deadly diseases or whatnot,

    What would you do with them?

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    Hmmmm....



    Ask them about their planet. See if it has flora and fauna.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Czar9109 View Post
    Hmmmm....



    Ask them about their planet. See if it has flora and fauna.
    but there's the language barrier...

    my attitude, after reading up on hernan cortes et al is to exterminate all the aliens and take apart the ship to find out how it works
    kill the ers or else they'll convert you into one of them

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    Quote Originally Posted by Exarch View Post
    but there's the language barrier...

    my attitude, after reading up on hernan cortes et al is to exterminate all the aliens and take apart the ship to find out how it works
    kill the ers or else they'll convert you into one of them
    Reminds me of...


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    lock them up into study rooms (make sure they have enough space food water etc...if their into that kind of stuff) and try to break the language barrier along with studying their ships.

    basically try to find out why they are here etc
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    Build a facility in some obscure desert somewhere and contain them.

    Carry out autopsies, examinations and eventually interrogations.

    Decipher their communication equipment and so forth.

    Dispose of the remaining aliens, reproduce any beneficial technology they may have bought with them, military equipment especially (Make absolutely sure it is never leaked to any nation outside the one I am operating on behalf of)

    Extend a warm greeting and offer to give remaining aliens refuge, keep the influx steady, not too many at the same time, disarm them of their weapons as they enter.

    Co-exist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pious Agnost View Post
    Build a facility in some obscure desert somewhere and contain them.

    Carry out autopsies, examinations and eventually interrogations.

    Decipher their communication equipment and so forth.

    Dispose of the remaining aliens, reproduce any beneficial technology they may have bought with them, military equipment especially (Make absolutely sure it is never leaked to any nation outside the one I am operating on behalf of)

    Extend a warm greeting and offer to give remaining aliens refuge, keep the influx steady, not too many at the same time, disarm them of their weapons as they enter.

    Co-exist.

    isn't this already done ?


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    I saw this once...I think it was on Independence Day.

    I would fly a old alien space ship up to their mothership. Infect the mothership with a computer virus and nuke the bastards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unorthodoxt View Post
    I saw this once...I think it was on Independence Day.

    I would fly a old alien space ship up to their mothership. Infect the mothership with a computer virus and nuke the bastards.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Exarch View Post
    Inspired by Peter Jackson's new film 'district 9' i thought i'd offer up a similar scenario:

    Alien refugees from a dead/dying planet arrive on earth seeking asylum but most of their leadership has disappeared and the rest of the aliens dont know anything about how to use or operate alien machinery or technology-similar to how most of us wouldnt know how to steer a cargo ship.
    Assuming they dont have deadly diseases or whatnot,

    What would you do with them?
    They probably have uber tech, so obliterating them outright would be a death sentence.

    I would establish a camp/city for them, with a processing center to understand their langauge. The site would, naturally, be completely off-limits to all civilians (being that any alien virus or microbe could easily kill any humans, as they have no natural defenses against it). Once the langauge barrier is bypassed, the human government will make it clear that they are our guests, and that by allowing them refuge and asylum, they have jeopardized our planet, but are still willing to share technology.

    Basically, peaceful sychronism/assimilation.


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    Deport them.

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    Have Megadeth play in the background as I vivisect them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boeing View Post
    Have Megadeth play in the background as I vivisect them.
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    Shoot them before they start stealing jobs from honest workers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Surgeon View Post
    Shoot them before they start stealing jobs from honest workers.
    They take our jeebbs.!!!!

    Nah really how many aliens are we talking about just a few thousands or a sizable population 1 or 2 million ?

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    I would postulate that it might take the form of the Colombian Exchange, except the barrier is outer space not the Atlantic Ocean.

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    Ensure they live comfortably in a safe environment where we can study their behaviour and ways, running medical exams on the live ones and, by any amiable means possible, autopsies on dead ones. Draft in the greatest languistic minds to decipher their language whilst devoting great engineers to unlocking the secrets of their spacefaring technology. Should the engineers fail we'll have many Aliens we can communicate with who, as a result of being treated fairly, should be willing to share with us their technology.

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    KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Exarch View Post
    Inspired by Peter Jackson's new film 'district 9' i thought i'd offer up a similar scenario:

    Alien refugees from a dead/dying planet arrive on earth seeking asylum but most of their leadership has disappeared and the rest of the aliens dont know anything about how to use or operate alien machinery or technology-similar to how most of us wouldnt know how to steer a cargo ship.
    Assuming they dont have deadly diseases or whatnot,

    What would you do with them?

    Wait, so all we're left with is the Idiot Aliens?

    I'm sure if you left me alone on the bridge of a cargo ship that was on course with an iceberg, I'd figure something out. So are these aliens so retarded they can't apply trial and error to figure out how to work their own cultures technology?

    If this is the case and we are left with the morons of an entire species, I think we should do the most naturally human thing possible. . .

    . . .exploit them.

    Sounds like an interspecies welfare case scenario though. If anything, I'd be suspicious of the aliens "leadership", if they are gone and only the dumb ones are left, maybe they sent us the dumb ones knowing we were dumb enough to take them in.

    If all reason and logic fails, we should just do what it seems the aliens are always doing to the less intelligent of our species. . .

    Anal probe.
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    Pay homage and hope they don't eat people.

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