I wonder how long the initial excitement and fascination will last when/if we come in contact with alien life forms. How long before jealousy, desire for power, and the equivalent of racism start to become prevalent?

Here's a strange thought that was going through my head... we label people heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual. What will we call humans who are attracted to aliens? Will there be "trisexual" humans, who like men, women, and aliens? Will there be discrimination and hate crimes against people who prefer alien partners? Will it even be legal to date an alien? Good grief...

The above is just one example of the strangeness that might result if we meet beings from anther world and have to interact with them. What do you think are some potential problems that we'll have to deal with when we meet our extraterrestrial neighbors? Do you think we are ready to handle such a meeting? If not, when will we be prepared?

Dan

I'm afraid all you just did was describe the world as it stands today. All the presence of aliens would do is add one more division.
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Some have said that if extra terrestrials just landed in densely populated locations all over the globe there would result mass hysteria and chaos. Others have speculated that the mass dysfunctional behavior would go even one step further: planet wide insurrection and fratricidal civil collapse as in Rwanda ten years ago. But, if anybody has any sort of intelligence they would quickly pack up and fly away from such instability as fast as possible. That may be all the proof anybody would need that "they" are intelligent in that they'd get away from this planet of
technologically primitive barbaric violent crazies and never come back.

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I hope i'm included in that percentage Shambolic.
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alien life force

I think we,d pretend they didn,t exist so they wouldn,t upset our religeous concepts of science.

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I think we,d pretend they didn,t exist so they wouldn,t upset our holey concepts of science.

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Yes true but this is fundamentally a science forum,so my comments are aimed in that direction.Dont worry I,ll have a dig at the established religions if this topic comes up on one of their sites.

Infinity and Beyonce!!!
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ST. You are asking for permanent banning if you persist.

who said that?
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life comes from life
a snowflake is on water based
mask and you shall decieve.
divinity and beyond.