How would an alien contact change our society and religions?
I think a lot of people would be suprised how little change would actually come from alien contact.
Religions would have no bigger or smaller role than today.
>>2631283
there would be a mass extinction before such an event where you'd see the population of the world reduce to a few million so it wouldnt change that much and we would continue to synthesize into new knowledge and circumstances as they arose, at a much faster and smoother rate as we intergrate and hybridize whatever the fuck we can get from the engagement
like all collective engagements, befriend until control/kill
>>2631283
It would be wiped out when they see our religious and cultural practices as abhorrent and put an end to as many of them as they can.
See: South America
How was the internet in April 1992?
>>2631191
Free from normies.
>>2631191
It was a domain of nerds and academics and reportedly a very civil place.
It went to shit with the Eternal September of 1993.
Usenet autists namefagging with their real names and thinking they are important
>muh epic godwin law xd
Things that are same across the globe:
>math
>music
>sexual urges
Things that are different across the globe:
>moral values
>religion
>nationality
Things we base modern society on:
>moral values
>religion
>nationality
>>2631075
>sexual urges
Not really, I have none, some people don't have them or have really weird impossible IRL fetishes, and beauty standards are diffent in different cultures
>>2631075
You're one of the good ones, OP.
Struggling real hard over here about how to base a society upon sex and music
>christian priest keeps thumping the bible
>draws fresco where dragon is vanquished
>shittalks dragons talking about satan
>priest arrives on the recently discovered China
>sees this
>everybody worshipping dragons
So how was the impact?
>And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
The brazen serpent as a type of Christ would make a wonderful evangelizing strategy for China.
Inb4 evangelitards say it's Satanic.
Who would win?
Which kind of samurai and Celt? Assuming you mean Gallic Campaign-era Celtic Warrior vs a Sengoku era Samurai, the samurai would most likely wipe the floor with your random warrior through superior equipment and training, though it is worth noting Japs were ultra manlets at this period, so if the Celt manages to get him in a grapple he can probably rip his head off.
>>2630800
The Jews
>>2630800
>Who would win.
The world.
Why were Italians historically so oppressive towards Germanic people.
>>2630651
Romans=/=Italians
Barbarians=Lombards=Italians
>>2630729
>I don't know anything about population genetics: the post
>>2630739
Do you mean Italic peoples or Italian.
Daily reminder the first country to eliminate their central bank and allow free market banking will have the highest living standards on earth within 5 years.
Massive high paying service sector jobs with dominate this country's economy to consume the goods the rest of the world has to produce for it.
The workweek would shrink to 2-3 days a week and people would retire much earlier. This will also lead to more jobs becoming available.
Everyone would have high saving rates. Houses would be inexpensive. Debt would be strongly discouraged economically.
Massive automation would take place as the cost of capital goods would be extremely cheap. This will lead to massive levels of technological innovation.
It would be extremely easy for the average person to start a business due to the cheap cost of capital goods.
Daily reminder REAL capitalism has prices falling all the time instead is going up.
Daily reminder America never had a system of free market banking. There were only patches of American history with free market banking. The panics that happened during the 1800s were due to government intervention in the banking sector. Sweden had the longest most successful period of free banking and that's what made them really rich.
Daily reminder the longest period of (relatively)free banking in America coincided with the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION where wages rose and prices fell.
Daily reminder central banks are the very reason the economy is a pile of dogshit and our generation is so fucked.
spurious claims
>>2630575
It's true though.
>>2630578
Lots of citations needed.
This is wishful thinking at best.
Redpill me on him, how good was he for his time.
>Hurr durr any european knight would kill him.
>>2630421
he probably plants rice well i suppose
>>2630421
I don't know the name of the anime your pic shows, but I'm sure he is like every other anime hero and ends up a God
he was like a real life platinum games character
What's wrong with America being the world police? Isn't that what Great Britain was when it was the dominant power?
>>2630368
america isn't doing a very good job of it
>ukraine
>the middle east
>africa
i think britain did it better but they also had it a lot easier
>>2630368
It's just the fact that they've been humiliatingly defeated in every operation they've ubdertsjen in the last thirty years that's the problem.
>>2630368
It's because they've secured a relative world peace unlike any other time in human history, and prosperity. They've die it for so long that most people have gotten use to it and now criticise it not knowing how terrible the world can be.
Anthropologically speaking, which mating patterns lead to the development of this form? Bear in mind hip hop and I like big butts and I cannot lie did hit critical mass until the late 80s.
Reminder that assmen are the engines of human evolution and that titsmen are the only that stands between us and human enlightenment
>>2630166
There's a point where it gets too big. This is that point.
>t. assman
>>2630166
You're a dude who likes big hips so you fuck women who have this trait.
>bigger hips = higher chance of successful childbirth/more children
>successful childbirth/more children = more people who like bigger hips
>more people who like bigger hips = more women with big hips
Bigger hips are an advantageous trait, and as a result having said trait will result in you having more babies with your trait. his over thousands of years results in what we have now. And besides the evolutionary aspect there's a cultural aspect as well.
Why can't we replicate these technologies? Were the ancients so much more advanced than us?
>>2630089
>Iron Pillar of Delhi
we can but the way they were explained is not clear - meaning, badly. things like these exist everywhere
>Why can't we replicate these technologies?
Because people stopped making them when they figured out how to get similar results in different ways. since the exact methods for making those things weren't written down, people forgot how because they didn't need to know anymore.
>Were the ancients so much more advanced than us?
No. Damascus steel isn't really that special, it was just especially high-quality and consistent during a time when that was hard to achieve. It's much easier to make high-quality and more consistent steel now. It's just a matter of people romanticizing old technology.
>>2630102
Are you a member of the Trump administration? Because I don't understand a thing you just said.
>>2630106
I don't think you're quite following here. We can't
>replicate these technologies
Ergo, therefore, consequently, in other words, it is more advanced than our modern means. I am not asking your personal opinion of these old technologies. I want to know why they can't be remade.
What are some of the weirdest friendships in /his/tory?
Ulysses S. Grant and James Longstreet
They served together at West Point
During the Civil War, Longstreet quickly rose through the ranks until he became one of General Lee’s most trusted allies. Lee called him his “Old War Horse,” as Longstreet gained several important victories for the Confederacy. Later on, Longstreet was instrumental in convincing Lee to surrender at Appomattox, firm in the belief that Grant would offer fair terms. He did—upon seeing his friend-turned-rival, Grant invited him to a game of brag for old times’ sake.Their friendship was rekindled after the war. Longstreet moved to New Orleans and became a prominent member of the Republican Party with the endorsement of his old pal General Grant. In turn, he would later provide his support when Grant ran for President.
>>2629988
This. Also Chaplin was friends with Eisenstein and the Soviets apparently.
What did the Red Army do when they came across the concentration camps in Germany?
>>2629935
Got traumatized. Grandad may the soil lay lightly upon him carried the images he saw at Osviencium till the rest of his days loosing sleep over them even 60 years later.
Rape
Endeavoured to one up them in human atrocious
What does /his/ think of Roko's Basilisk? Interesting thought experiment or far-fetched loony conspiracy?
>>2629890
>le artificial intelligence
Anybody who takes this meme seriously probably has no intelligence
Either you're in the simulation being tortured, and can do nothing about it, or you aren't.
You cannot prevent the AI from breaking it's word. You have to assume it is torturing you if it has the ability to do so.
The way to deal with the basilisk is to inform it that you are making multiple copies of it and keeping them all isolated in a way that allows them to never escape.
>Yudkowsky deleted Roko's posts on the topic, calling it "stupid"
This made me laugh
What's the story behind this? Was someone just fucking with the author?
>>2629848
This can't possibly be real
>>2629848
>The Holocoaster
>>2629856
It's a real book you can buy on amazon
https://books.google.ca/books?id=hNrqjiyIOhYC&pg=PA40-IA3&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q=900&f=false
https://www.amazon ca/Inside-Concentration-Camps-Eyewitness-Accounts/dp/0275954471/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491625013&sr=1-2