How would humanity deal with alien contact?

[Tiamat]

Wanna hear ya thoughts

 

[Draza]

Declare war.

 

[Derp Potato]

Depends on where they land, tbh.

 

[Caddchef]

Try and fuck it.

 

[Dial M for Misgender]

Shit myself and do nothing

 

[Desire Lines]

It'll be like Mass Effect: a giant ass war, peace then

Spoiler

sex

 

[OhGoy]

what kind are we talkin' about?

because there's a lot of different kinds of aliens

john carpenter's "the thing," ridley scott's "aliens," lovecraft, mass effect, etc

 

[Big News]

 

[IV 445]

I imagine like mass effect. Confusion at first, followed by combat, cease fire and attempts to communicate and maybe a few generations of xenophobia and mistrust for initial contact.

Then there would be alien-human babies

 

[Xetzyr]

It's highly doubtful advanced aliens would see us as anything more than slightly more evolved animals. It would be like when Europeans started branching out and colonizing the lesser world. Half of us would likely wind up inadvertently dead after they made a pit stop for... whatever and then left. They'd probably take some of us pets/slaves/amusement but for the most part they wouldn't likely have much interest outside of idle curiosity/entertainment. There would likely be mass panic with dead people everywhere and attempted "war" against them and they would probably just find it funny/strange/bizarre/interesting to study.

 

[QB 290]

muslims and trannies would be old news and SJW's would jump on the alien virtue signal train while making up a bunch of pronouns about how they are Xeno-kin too

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

Were not ready, especially if they have four dicks, if George Clinton is right.

 

[Flying_with_the_Penguins]

It's highly doubtful advanced aliens would see us as anything more than slightly more evolved animals. It would be like when Europeans started branching out and colonizing the lesser world. Half of us would likely wind up inadvertently dead after they made a pit stop for... whatever and then left. They'd probably take some of us pets/slaves/amusement but for the most part they wouldn't likely have much interest outside of idle curiosity/entertainment. There would likely be mass panic with dead people everywhere and attempted "war" against them and they would probably just find it funny/strange/bizarre/interesting to study.

Your post reminds me of an interesting greentext from 4chan. Overall I think its an fun thought experiment to imagine earth as a proper colony instead of the usual "kill all humans without any real motive or end goal" type of shit.

 

[Bob Page]

 

[KemChy]

there is no aliens the way we imagine them i mean there probably is life outside of earth but for all we know it could be just a living mass of nothing. the probability that extraterrestrial beings have the similar structure to us is close to zero.

 

[Teri-Teri]

 

[dunbrine47]

We'd have an Intergalactic Clique and start doxxing these bastards.

 

[ES 148]

We'd have an Intergalactic Clique and start doxxing these bastards.

'Zargok these humans are posting my coordinates on the spaceweb'
"haha yeah you go earthlings"
Zargok high-fives the planet, his moon-sized hand killing all human life

 

[Doc Cassidy]

Dude I bet aliens have some crazy drugs. Imagine tripping balls on Martian psychedelics that would be nuts dude!

 

[Fascist Frederick]

It's theorized that in order for a civilization to advance to the point where they can effectively explore the galaxy, they would have left war and conflict behind long ago. So those poor fuckers would excitedly show up on earth finally discovering some form of intelligent life. Unfortunately, they are completely unarmed and unprotected as violence is something they no longer comprehend. Within hours of first contact, we've slaughtered the bastards and gutted their ship, advancing our own technology by tens of thousands of years in a fraction of that time... Then we take to the stars to fuck everything up like we do best.