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Stéphane Garrelie
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Well, if it's aliens i suppose they will contact the United Nations, or maybe they'll try to have an idea of who we are by meeting the president of the most powerful nation on our planet, after all, the chief of that advanced nation is bound to be a elite specimen, ain't it?
Edited by Stéphane Garrelie on 24 September 2020 at 6:58am
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 24 September 2020 at 7:05am | IP Logged | 2
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Raises the question of what a spacefaring species would consider "advanced". To their eyes (however many there may be) there might be little difference between our highest and lowest technologies.
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 24 September 2020 at 7:26am | IP Logged | 3
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Indeed, what would be the technology of a species not merely 1000 years ahead of ours but 100 million?
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 24 September 2020 at 7:32am | IP Logged | 4
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One of the inherent difficulties in portraying "futuristic" technology is to keep it comprehensible to modern audiences.STAR TREK, set a couple of centuries in the Future, still gave us people who wore trousers and pushed buttons. But what would it really be like? It goes back to something Howard Mackie said when he was my editor on the AVENGERS books. Readers expect backgrounds to be crammed with arcane technology--Kirbytech!--yet "realistically" the whole of Avengers Mansion could probably be run by something the size of an iPhone. Given Iron Man's involvement, probably even smaller!! (Reminiscent of some of the mail I received from readers in Canada when I was doing ALPHA FLIGHT. They expected the book to be textbook accurate in its portrayal of the Great White North--based, of course, on their particular experiences in their particular region!)
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Ron M Bailey
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I know what you're trying to do there, but there are SO many assumptions about the cultural/specious priorities of said visitors ...
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 01 October 2020 at 1:54am | IP Logged | 6
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Uh... what am I “trying to do”?
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Mark Haslett
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| Posted: 01 October 2020 at 3:11am | IP Logged | 7
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Is the trope of advanced aliens understanding that we are primitive, yet evolving so unlikely?
If evolution accounts for our advances as a species here, one would assume it is in play and driving advances where-ever. It seems reasonable that understanding this principle is a cornerstone of any self-aware species, no matter how far they may have advanced beyond us.
Interest in the rare-flower of a life-bearing planet doesn't seem mind-bogglingly un-likely to me. However, I do think it's naive to assume that anyone who actually took an interest in us would have our best-interests at heart.
Edited by Mark Haslett on 01 October 2020 at 3:12am
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 01 October 2020 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | 8
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We'd best hope the aliens turn out to be better people than our history shows us to have been.
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Andrew Bitner
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If they're anything like us, we are so screwed.
And I have to admit, if it's aliens, that is just peak 2020.
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Mark Haslett
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| Posted: 02 October 2020 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | 10
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"Look at these ants. They've almost developed what we would consider culture. Anyway, turn on the ant-milking machines."
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Ted Pugliese
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| Posted: 02 October 2020 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | 11
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I love aliens. They are the power behind my own team of
heroes too.
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Joe Zhang
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| Posted: 02 October 2020 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | 12
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Who here believes aliens have visited Earth?
For the record, I do. And as it is commonly known, I am rarely wrong.
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