Everybody talks about eventual aliens we contact like they're either going to be evil conquerers (space fascists) or peaceful explorers (space commies), but I think the funniest outcome would be if they ended up being enlightened centrist space libs.
Like, they'll have aliens on board who'll want to enslave us, but they'll first have to debate and vote on what to do back on their home planet.
Actually, aliens found us years ago, but haven't made any action towards us yet cause they're trying to figure it out through liberal democracy. Basically, every 4 years a different government comes into power and they change plans on what to do with us which has resulted in like 20 years of inaction -- they mainly use us for bullshit political campaign points at this point.
EDIT: Actually, isn't this basically Mass Effect? If I remember the story correctly, aliens observed us until we reached a certain level of technology and then they showed up and invited us into space NATO lol
You don't really live on a Dyson sphere. It's used to harvest power from a star. You can have orbital habitats that orbit with the rest of the Dyson sphere and live on those. If you really want to live on an impractical megastructure then you want a Ringworld.
You got it, Dyson spheres don't naturally have 'gravity'. You could build habitats that orbit the sun just outside the Dyson sphere. I'm partial to O'Neill Cylinders myself, a big cigar shaped space-station that spins to provide artificial gravity. You could also make Bishop Rings which are basically tiny ringworlds that don't have the sun at the center. Alternately, genemod our dependence on gravity away and you don't even need to provide artificial gravity, we could just live in a large swarm of non-rotating artificial space stations.
Not exactly. There was a race that was observing humanity 50,000 years before called the Protheans that the series until 3 posited that they were a super enlightened democratic society, until 3 dropped that they were actually marauding imperials who were planning to enslave humanity and the other modern dominant species to fight their fascist wars until they got owned by the Reapers who imo rightly slaughtered them. Humanity accidentally discovered modern day space NATO because they just aggressively activated Mass Effect relays and colonized other planets until they accidentally ran into a turian patrol fleet, immediately attacked them, fought like a 2 month war over nothing, got owned, then got invited to space NATO as one of the shittier races. So PRETTY much how I envision a future confrontation with an alien species assuming we have a united space military headed by the west.
Everybody talks about eventual aliens we contact like they're either going to be evil conquerers (space fascists) or peaceful explorers (space commies), but I think the funniest outcome would be if they ended up being enlightened centrist space libs.
Like, they'll have aliens on board who'll want to enslave us, but they'll first have to debate and vote on what to do back on their home planet.
Actually, aliens found us years ago, but haven't made any action towards us yet cause they're trying to figure it out through liberal democracy. Basically, every 4 years a different government comes into power and they change plans on what to do with us which has resulted in like 20 years of inaction -- they mainly use us for bullshit political campaign points at this point.
EDIT: Actually, isn't this basically Mass Effect? If I remember the story correctly, aliens observed us until we reached a certain level of technology and then they showed up and invited us into space NATO lol
The space alt-right just elected space Trump and they're building a wall around our solar system
They are going to be the spaceship from Wall-E and no help to us at all
That would be justified though.
Also, aliens can you build us a dyson sphere to live on instead?
That would solve a lot of problems and adequately encapsulate us. I know it's expensive but like... please?
If you have built dyson spheres it nbd to do another right?
if you haven't you know you wanna... you know you do. great experiment actually
You don't really live on a Dyson sphere. It's used to harvest power from a star. You can have orbital habitats that orbit with the rest of the Dyson sphere and live on those. If you really want to live on an impractical megastructure then you want a Ringworld.
What's wrong with living on a dyson sphere?
edit: no gravity and it can drift.
Dyson was proposing a swarm.
Star Trek lied to me. :(
You got it, Dyson spheres don't naturally have 'gravity'. You could build habitats that orbit the sun just outside the Dyson sphere. I'm partial to O'Neill Cylinders myself, a big cigar shaped space-station that spins to provide artificial gravity. You could also make Bishop Rings which are basically tiny ringworlds that don't have the sun at the center. Alternately, genemod our dependence on gravity away and you don't even need to provide artificial gravity, we could just live in a large swarm of non-rotating artificial space stations.
Not exactly. There was a race that was observing humanity 50,000 years before called the Protheans that the series until 3 posited that they were a super enlightened democratic society, until 3 dropped that they were actually marauding imperials who were planning to enslave humanity and the other modern dominant species to fight their fascist wars until they got owned by the Reapers who imo rightly slaughtered them. Humanity accidentally discovered modern day space NATO because they just aggressively activated Mass Effect relays and colonized other planets until they accidentally ran into a turian patrol fleet, immediately attacked them, fought like a 2 month war over nothing, got owned, then got invited to space NATO as one of the shittier races. So PRETTY much how I envision a future confrontation with an alien species assuming we have a united space military headed by the west.
Why have no space missionaries defied liberal space law to visit us anyway?