NASA has launched their space rocket to look for other planets with life on them. If they do discover it, what will they do? What if that planet has human like lifeforms with technology similar to ours. (Lets say, the lifeforms are almost exactly like humans, they can talk, and do everything we can do on earth) Will the earth unite as one big nation/country, and fight the other planet in hopes of capturing it, and taking over their world? Or will we make an allience with the other planet, and make earth one big nation/country?|||Depending.
-If they are advanced they have already spotted us for more before we spotted them. They might be peaceful. If they are, they wont want anything to do with earth. If they are mean. They have probably infiltrated earth already.
-If they are the same as us they will probably want to get their grubby hands on our technology and our hands on their technology. Thats how ignorant the governments on earth are.
- If they are not as advanced and are in the mid evil ages. They are probably against themselves and would look at us like gods. However, we would probably overun them and take over their planet because again. Thats how ignorant the earth governments are.
There would be no war because it would be to easy to wipe us out if they were advanced. Plus they wouldnt waste the resources. I mean us by that to. We could be used as slaves. If they were the same technology as us we might have a war. Though it would be a racial war.|||We will figure a way to communicate with each other... but yeah if we were to fight them, we would become as one|||The earth's nations will never be able to unite as one peaceful, holistic state. Human beings just cannot cope in social groups that large - we can barely survive without conflict in our own suburbs and cities.
If NASA do find life or evidence of life that is similar to our own, it is possible that there will be warfare between our two planets. However, I doubt the likelihood of this occurring.
If life that is so similar to ours exists, it must be quite a distance from our own planet. If it was close, we would have already identified them, or they would have already identified us. Considering this, war would be infeasible and impractical due to the great distances each life system would have to travel simply to reach the other planet, let alone engage with it in warfare.
The same is true for any allegiances we might make with other planets. Although I think an allegiance is more likely for the research possibilities of combined planets and civilisations, the distance would still be a major hindrance to communications.|||Hell no! That would make us spread even more!
I say someone would have to conquer the world just before the finding otherwise things will all collapse.|||Will the earth unite as one big nation/country, and fight the other planet in hopes of capturing it, and taking over their world?
Not a chance.|||I think that the global systems are so currupt that we would not be able to be organized enough to achieve unity, no-matter how much of a threat any outside life-forms pose. Think about the U.S. for example. The country is so divided along partisan lines (the left and the right) that it cannot even unite against terrorism or anything else. It has never been able to, even in the days of the revolutionary war there was not true unity.
However, I think that discovering intelligent life would be one of the first steps towards eventual unity. Perhaps we could learn from them, and develop a peaceful relationship with them... Hopefully.|||I'd say it depends on the threat level.
The ancient Greeks were far more nationalistic than we are, going to far as to be racist against anyone from another city-state, and barely registering a non-Greek as human. Even they formed a Panhellenic alliance in the face of the invading Persian Empire.
Of course, if we discover that the alien life form is nothing more than a bunch of bacteria, we probably wouldn't have a very large drive to unite.
Another problem is that the satellite in question will be no where near powerful enough to detect if there is life on a planet, or determine what kind of life it is. It is going to be observing stars for slight variances in their luminosity; a sign that planets are in orbit around them. The previous method was to detect the wobble of stars due to their gravitational interaction with their planets. This is no where near sensitive enough to detect the presence of life.
But even if we did somehow discover that there are aliens living on another planet, we simply have no way to communicate with them. Our oldest transmission into space; a speech by Adolf Hitler in the 1940s, has probably gotten as far as Vega by now, which is only 23 light years away, and by now is probably far too hopelessly degenerated for a potential alien to get anything useful out of it. We do have a few interstellar probes floating about, but the odds of an alien civilization randomly stumbling onto it are many trillions to one.
In any event, assuming that we come up with a Faster Than Light communication/travel method (which some scientists have compared to an alchemist looking for gold); The odds of an alien lifeform being similar to us is infinitesimally small. Even if they are carbon based like us, the results of billions of years of completely different evolution would probably make them far too difficult for either race to comprehend. Not to mention the idea of a similar level of technology to ours is also infinitesimally small as well. Human beings have only had civilization for about 10,000 years, and have only been exploring Space seriously for about 100 years. That's barely a blip on a universal scale. They would likely be either millions of years ahead of us, or millions of years behind us.
In the event that there are similarities, ours (and probably, theirs, too) first impulse would probably be to study them. Unless they are overly aggressive, there really isn't a reason for us to want to wage war with them. When you see an animal that you have never seen before, is your first impulse to kill it? Or to look at it and study it visually? I think that it is unrealistically cynical to assume that if we met an alien species, our first impulse would be to wipe it out and take their planet for our own.|||Why fight if we can communicate with it. Before that even happens I'm sure we may try to telecommunications accross the galaxies before we actually meet face to face.
When that will happen? Who knows.
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