An alien visitation fiction...

Turanil

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I am still in the hope that mankind will one day meet with some alien specie from another stellar system. But as much I believe that mankind will one day colonize Mars, as much I fear that encountering alien may never happen at all. There are so many problems for that. Just let me recount you the story of an alien visitation on Earth...

1 -- Almost 40 light years away from the sun was a planet inhabited by an intelligent alien specie: the Xharl'dh. Biologically speaking the Xharl'dh were extremely different from any Earth mammals. For example, one of their differences was that their metabolism was incredibly slow when compared to life forms on Earth. That is, what a human being would be able to do in 1 hour, the Xharl'dh would do it in 20 hours. But that wasn't a problem, since all organisms were likewise slow on their planet.

2 -- Anyway, the Xharl'dh had benefited from miraculously appropriate circumstances to evolve a technically advanced civilization. At some point they had detection devices so evolved, that they could scan the galaxy in search of planets with life forms. Hence the first planet with a thriving life that they discovered, was Earth. Yet, their civilization took another 4000 terrestrial years to develop the technology that would be able to cross the stars and visit us. But they eventually did it, in lauching three Xorialu super-cruisers toward the Sol system. These starships were unable to travel faster than light speed, but with their slow metabolism, the 40 years trip seemed much shorter (especially as at such speed, the time also dilated so it seemed even shorter).

3 -- When the Xharl'dh discovered Earth, they were amazed and under shock! The planet was thriving with a life that moved and grew with monstrous speed, and had incredibly short lifespans as a result. Then, despite observing this planet was really of utmost interest, they wouldn't personnaly land on it, as it was intolerably hot with a poisonous atmosphere. The Xharl'dh nonetheless sent a probe, and collected a huge amount of plants, and several species of dinosaurs.

4 -- Then, the Xharl'dh got back to their homeworld. Due to their decidedly non-human way of thinking, they never got the idea to come back to Earth. Then time passed, and after 20 millions of (terrestrial) years, as everything will disappear sooner or later, the Xharl'dh disappeared. Another 45 millions of (terrestrial) years passed, and all that was left of the Xharl'dh and their civilization, was huge amounts of a strange substance that was slowly created from their remains, as oil results from the remains of dinosaurs and jurrasic flora.

5 -- In 2648, a human starship manned with robots reached the planet that was a so long time ago inhabited by the Xharl'dh. They extensively explored the planet and discovered vast amount of a strange substance that was similar to oil. Maybe it could be exploited and used in industrial facilities?
 

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If your point in all of this is to say that it is possible that alien life could be SO alien as to make interaction unfeasible, then I'd have to say, yes, possibly. In fact, given the time span that human civilizations have been around, and the vastness of the universe, I'd narrow things down to a few alternatives:

A. We ARE alone in the universe, due to act of some g-d, or some really odd and improbably scientific cause.

B. We aren't alone, but superluminal travel is impossible. So, no visitors.

C. We HAVE been contacted, and it has been kept secret by some group on Earth, or

D. Life develops in so many different ways, like the one you are talking about, that we wouldn't know it if it hit us - or, at best, we'd know about each other, but the knowledge would be nearly useless.
 

E. Lise is developing all around us in other solar systemsand galaxies, but at no point in time are there two comperable civilizations that are close enough to meet, and none of them ever find any other intelligent life.

- Kemrain the Pessimist.
 

Kemrain said:
E. Lise is developing all around us in other solar systemsand galaxies, but at no point in time are there two comperable civilizations that are close enough to meet, and none of them ever find any other intelligent life.

- Kemrain the Pessimist.
Cheer up, Kemrain - that one IS possible, I suppose, but I'd put it down around the same low probability as A. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I tend to think the answer is either C, or F, below.

F. There is intelligent, human-like life in the rest of the universe, but for some reason (disease, Prime-Directive-like-mandate, religion, etc) all the ones who have encountered our world have neglected to make contact.
 

G. Or have wanted to contact us but changed their minds when they got ahold of our media and saw what we did to "ET".... :uhoh:

H. Or have contacted someone in our government who is keeping the whole thing secret in "Area 51" so as to not panic the general public.

I. There are aliens living amongst us. Blending in, the best they can, as one of us..... And when they get "busted", you read about them in the Weekly World News rag. :uhoh:
 

Darth K'Trava said:
G. Or have wanted to contact us but changed their minds when they got ahold of our media and saw what we did to "ET".... :uhoh:
J. They got to see a TV reality-show and subsequently died of insanity. The remaining aliens were wise enough to flee Earth at full faster-than-light speed.
 

Turanil said:
J. They got to see a TV reality-show and subsequently died of insanity. The remaining aliens were wise enough to flee Earth at full faster-than-light speed.

Hell, *I'd* flee this planet if I could just to get away from them!!! :confused:
 



Darth K'Trava said:
Heh. :lol:

As long as we don't let people know you're from another planet....... :p
Nah, it's okay. Everybody knows men are from mars, women are from venus, and lesbians trapped in men's bodies are from the suburbs of Neptune. :lol:
 

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