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From: judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms)
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Subject: Re: What to do when the aliens arrive.
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 04:58:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 04:58:51 1985
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Summary: KILL THEM???

In article <> JWHITE%MAINE.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA writes:
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>When the first creature from another planet first sets foot, (tenticle,
>pod, or whatever it may 'set'), on Earth, if it is within our power to do
>so, we should kill it and eat it.

If you hadn't added "and eat it," I might have had to conclude that (gaak!)
you were serious!

>E.T. and Close encounters of the Third Kind aside, real extra terrestrials
>are unlikely to be so kind and benevolent.

And it's therefore the best policy to scare hell out of them by eating one...

>                                        ...A space faring race of beings
>would be way ahead of us technologically. Being the case, and assuming a
>continued interaction of two cultures that are many orders of magnitude
>removed from each other technologically, the less advanced race, (us)
>would undoubtedly suffer a wide spread collapse of sociological coherance.

We can avoid this by shooting the first explorer.  The rest of them will just
conclude that we're too tough to mess with!

>Consider the cases on Earth that, during the colonial era of 70 to 200
>years ago, left advanced western/european societies imposing many of
>their cultural norms on the countries/areas they occupied. The American
>Indian, Australian Aboriginal and much of Black Africa today still
>suffers from the colonial period. Their loosely organized societies were
>unable to stand up to the much more structured cultures of the colonial
>powers.

Just think!  If a few of these American Indians and Black Africans had just
had the foresight to kill and eat the first Western Europeans they met, the
Western Europeans would have given up and gone away.  Too bad they were so
hospitable to us!

>                                    ... Their culture would undoubtedly be
>much different from ours, and their technology would be suited to their
>culture. For us to thus take advantage of their advanced goodies, a
>dramatic cultural upheaval would be required.

So rather than risk going nuts by trying to assimilate their technology,
let's risk finding ourselves on the receiving end of it!

Or were you planning to disable the alien's communicator so he can't phone
home?

Good luck!