Timeline for First Contact @ Home: How to ethically raise aliens when very little is known about their species and contact is impossible?
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| Sep 23, 2021 at 12:28 | comment | added | Ian Kemp | @causative You just described the Amnion. | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 8:23 | comment | added | causative | (In fact it's better for them if they are nice guys and not horror-movie monsters, because that would keep humans from wanting to exterminate them as their numbers grow.) | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 8:19 | comment | added | causative | One of the plausible ways far-away aliens without hyperdrive tech could conquer the solar system is by communicating to us, via radio transmission, their DNA-equivalent and how to make one of their kind. Curious, humans do so. The resulting aliens are smarter and stronger than humans, and reproduce prolifically, without necessarily needing to be horror-movie monsters; they could be mostly nice guys, but just better than us. In 100 years they outcompete humans and become the masters of the planet. | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 14:23 | comment | added | smallobsession | Thanks for giving me the head's up. Assuming my understanding of your answer as "Don't - stick to studying their corpses" is correct, I should be fine. Dodged a bullet, really. | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 14:21 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | @smallobsession note that you can't edit a question in a way that invalidates existing answers. You can post follow up questions, though | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 14:11 | comment | added | smallobsession | Fair answer; perhaps it's better not to explore this rabbit hole. That aside, perhaps I should've been more clear w.r.t. the purpose; you're entirely right that cadavers suffice for physiological understanding of the aliens, but the difficult part of establishing first contact is understanding their psychology - something that almost requires living specimens. I will amend my question in light of your answer. | |
| Sep 22, 2021 at 14:02 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |