Star Trek: First Contact – HD Ready:720p (Super Quality), DivX Version (Normal Quality), iPod/iPhone Version
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IMDB rating: 7.60 Plot: It is the 24th century, and a collective of part humanoid, part machine beings face the Federation in what would be the biggest battle of all time. This collective, called the Borg, lose, and desperately attempt to go back in time to April 4th, 2063, to stop Earth’s First Contact with an alien species (the Vulcans, to be precise). Captain Picard, and the crew of the Enterprise-E (NCC 1701-E) go back in time to make sure that Zefram Cochrane makes his warp flight. The Enterprise runs into unexpected trouble, however, when they start to assimilate the Enterprise. |
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Actors: Stewart Patrick,Spiner Brent,Burton LeVar,Dorn Michael,Cromwell James,Horton Michael,McDonough Neal,Picardo Robert,Adventure,Action,Sci-Fi,Thriller,
Are we 'ready' to be contacted by alien life?
Its almost guaranteed that we are not alone in the universe and highly likely that there are hyper-intelligent life forms which are vastly superior to our own.
Maybe you’ve watched Star Trek and know about "First Contact". But if you haven’t…
Imagine that a group of intergalactic civilizations (or just one supreme one) are monitoring and studying developing planets, much like us humans monitor less intelligent animals in the wild. It is likely that we are socially quarantined from them and that there is a protocol they will adhere to, thereby making themselves known in a "First Contact"-style visitation where we are introduced to their network. The question is: Assuming they know all about us are we, in THEIR eyes, ready for a "First Contact"? Is it likely that some kind of intergalactic council would vote for earth to be next on their list based on our technological/intellectual/spiritual/cultural enlightenment?
Look at the history of intelligent life on Earth.
When a technologically superior civilization meets a primitive one, the primitive one is usually enslaved, conquered, or destroyed, and is sometimes even eaten.
That is almost universal in human history. When the aliens come, it will be like Columbus showing up at the New World. They will probably want something we consider useless, just like the Europeans wanted gold from the America’s. Maybe they’ll want carbon dioxide. At first we’ll be glad to let them have it, since we have too much. They will siphon it out of our atmosphere and leave. But then more aliens will come, and they will keep taking more and more of our carbon dioxide. Trees and plants will start dying out. Then the free atmospheric oxygen will end up binding with carbon more because the levels of co2 will get so low. But the aliens will keep taking it. Eventually we will be forced onto a reservation the size of Italy, those of us who survive the deadly disease wdtrhgdsfhg that the aliens introduced. They will construct a giant dome over the reservation and then they will proceed to mine all the carbon and all the oxygen in the rest of the world, to create carbon dioxide out of.
One day a great leader will arise to rally humans against the aliens. The human army will take the aliens by surprise and win a victory, and demand the return of enough carbon dioxide for the planet to survive. The aliens will negotiate a treaty and then renege on it and eventually all Earth people will either be destroyed or be hauled off to the alien planet to live in zoos.
That’s the best-case scenario. The worst-case is that the aliens will show up, herd everybody into a big spaceship and then eat us.
kozzm0 | Aug 11, 2009
Regardless of how likely alien life might be, there is no indication that it exists as of yet. So there’s no reason to speculate all this nonsense.
Raine | Aug 11, 2009
this is the part where the hyper-intelligent aliens spike your coffee tomorrow morning, and you die
wolfy | Aug 11, 2009
Yeah we have placed array of disks to transmit & receive signal from space.
Please refer this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Teles cope_Array
Pax | Aug 11, 2009
There is no intergalactic council,except in science fiction.Nevertheless,intelligent aliens are watching us.They’re experts at watching us and they’ve been watching us for a long time.A public landing is not their style so don’t look for them to show up on the White House lawn.
BlackCar | Aug 11, 2009
Ehrr, I do hope you realise that Star Trek is fiction. It was made in a studio using actors, props and special effects. The story of First Contact was written by a screen writer, and the actors were all reading from a script. Does that make sense?
Being fiction it has no need to conform to reality in any way shape or form, and in typical hollywood fashion it chooses not to, and with great gusto.
However, these productions, along with spiels from ugly heads that populate current affairs and chat shows, have done a remarkable job in that 50% of the US population now believes in aliens. That being the case, the highly improbable appearance of genuine aliens would not be a surprise. We have never been better ready than we are now.
I would advise any aliens to arrive ASAP. The media is a fickle beast, and when it decides it can no longer sell advertising time based on aliens, it will start turning out "shocking" shows to convince the public that shock, horror – we are alone.
Cheers!
Quadrillian | Aug 11, 2009
We are waiting.
Billy Butthead | Aug 11, 2009
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