>tfw the US will almost surely be the first country to contact

>>53402223
we already have drives specifically for aliens that describe how civilisation started
and i'm pretty sure that will interest them more than what kind of teeth george washington had

>>53402316

>Implying we're gonna show that faggy shit

That's all in the ruse of pretending our space program and science expeditions are for mankind and not just trying to be the first to contact the aliens for secret technology and shit to cuck the world more.

You're an idiot. Any life capable of traveling distances as vast as the nearest habitable solar system would be so advanced that they wouldn't give a shit.

>>53402426
welp have fun being assfucked by aliens because they realised you lied to them
plus,this>>53402454
socrates,lao tzu,voltaire,who gives a shit when you can travel to a million planet with even fancier shit than that

>>53402454
>>53402528

They might be advanced but they are not as free.

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>>53402316
>>53402528

>>53402223
>tfw the US will almost surely be the first country to contact extraterrestrial life

no

first contact is not like european contact for wealth and land

here are some hypothetical
1 they are running
2 the want resources
3 they want knowledge and study culture
4 they want friends to form some group

so if it is an unequal meeting they would not care what is or what isn't being represented, we are all technologically backwards, it's the aztecs or the mayans in this case

>>we will be the only point of contact until the extraterrestrials arrive at earth

doubtful

>>we will teach them how great and all the achievements of the US

irrelevant

>>aliens assume the entire world is the US

a safe mistake that cost them nothing

>>the aliens arrive and find out that countries like Russia, the UK, Finland, etc exist

glory to multiplicity

>How do we prevent this?

there is nothing wrong with it

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>the US will almost surely be the first country to contact extraterrestrial life
>the ET's immediately build intergalatic wall to contain such primitive creatures

>>53402598

Hi le-reddit - watching a lot of The Martian lately? Le science xD amirite?

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>Implying aliens aren't already among us, live deep underground in huge subterranean cities, and Obama, Hillary, and the Queen of England aren't actually shapeshifting reptiles.

S - M - H F - A - M

>>53402598
there is absolutely no reason for them to keep us alive though
they'll probably vaporise our shit and take our stuff,this thread is irrelevant

>>53402454

This is a common myth and it's bullshit

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>implying US won't fuck it up

>>53402647
Idiot pls

Aliens are not the metaphorical representation of the illusive adult to pat yourself on the back for hollow meaningless achievements

>>53402694
can we destroy sentient life by the billions

if we have second thoughts why won't they

>>53402733

UPVOTE!!!!!

>>53402768
>implying superior aliens are moralfags

>>53402943
Why would they be superior, in what way?

>>53402943
then we all dead anyway what's the point of fantasies about aliens

>>53402975
Not being moralfags for a start

>>53402993
Alien abuctions stories are true, a portion of us will be kept alive as a sexual commodity.

>>53403030

So you say aliens would be superior by not being moralfags, and they're not moralfags because they're superior.

Circular reasoning. And a retarded line of thinking in general but whatever.

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>>53402223
Nuke the US so we can't contact any extraterrestrial life

>>53403069
Is sexuality even important when you're that far advanced?

>>53403165

Until we make a pill that instantly gives you a mind blowing orgasm, yes.

>>53403282

You'are mother has me on speed dial for that purpose

>>53403069
the downfall of civilization can be attributed to "sexual commodity"

morality is not really the reason why alien will keep us alive

the justification for wasting precious ammunition does not exist, if they are space capable what do we have that they need

it will always be of desperation so that either they can't grow food or they no longer have a temperate planet

and the argument can be made that if they are not pressing for resources they wouldn't have the need to obliterate us, we possess no threat

people really get hard for extermination for some reason

>>53402697

Oh, please do elaborate my tripfagging friend.

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>>53403319

>an arabic tripfag living in the UK using German

jesus christ what a cancerous combination

>>53403485
It's simply a view of mine, but rockets powered by teller-ulam devices can reach speeds of ~0.1c, which would be good enough for interstellar travel without being technologically out of human reach. Perhaps an alien race with different lifestyles (space-nomads for example) would reach earth using these kind of spaceships, the technological gap between us and the ayyy lmaos wouldn't be big. I talked about this with a professor at my department, he agreed. Nuclear propulsion is the real deal.

>>53403786
the closet star is 10 ly away, it has no good planets doe, that's 100 years on a spaceship

theoretically possible but technically unachievable

to many things can go wrong and no enough can go right

>you will never fly alien fighter jets under the command of US President Bill Pullman and receive from him an inspirational speech as you defend humanity
https://youtu.be/LbduDRH2m2M?t=61
How's it feel bros?

>>53403861

You're using human lifespan, which is irrelevant when it comes to aliens, surely they might have way longer lifespans.

In any case, nuclear propulsion is the best bet for interstellar travel and will probably be for centuries to come.

>>53404090
I wouldn't say that, centuries ago people thought the sky was made of glass and the stars revolved around the flat earth

it is not the passage of life that is the hard part it is the act of being inside a tin can

>>53403786

Please. Once a species hits the singularity, they couldn't possibly give a shit about something as insignificant as Finland.

>>53403786
What do you think about space travel where we have multiple generations live and die before the ship reaches the destination?

>>53402223

Nuke Europe. No Europe, no problem.

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>>53402555
ftfy

>>53404492

This paired with nuclear propulsion would put the stars in our reach in this century, but it will not happen for obvious reasons.

We can't even explode nukes in space because of that one treaty (signed after starfish prime), so yeah

>>53402223
We contacted aliums almost 70 years ago dumbass.

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>The first contact with ET's will occur when Ayyliens establish radio contact with America's Mars Colony

>tfw yuropoors are too busy servicing their muslim masters to have a space program

If you buttmad yuros have a problem with the USA being the first to establish contact, why don't you create a space program for yourselves? The US put a man on the moon 47 years ago. Has europe even launched a satellite in that time lmao