why are aliens so stupid?

you would think that aspecies that could achieve space travel, they would recognize they are allergic to water and thake the necessary precautions when invading planets which have 70% of thier surfaces consisting of it or where whatever falls from thier sky. did they forget to do thier homework?

secondly, shouldn't they be able to figure out how to open a window? and if they can jump 30 ft in the air, shouldn't they be able to kick down doors?

after that display, i have no respect for aliens.

I'm convinced this is just mere, stupid human portrayal of intelligent life from other worlds, other galaxies -- perhaps other universes. Just like how our own nationalistic war propaganda shows the "enemy" as ridiculously clutzy (think of that racist reel showing Popeye or even Donald Duck vs. the Japanese), our movies are usually bound to be pro-human and focus on the human spirit and the human condition and humanist vision and humans, humans, humans.

UNLESS the aliens are benevolent. That's usually when ET will perk up and declare how much he likes the yellow M&Ms, or when the Asgard will give the Tau'ri hyperdrive, or Spock and Data will be caught in amusing moments trying to get emotions down pat. And we'll be all for intergalactic peace and all that.

I could sum up Signs as the following, although I've never seen it:

"My faith has been restored because I was attacked by aliens -- it's all for a reason!!"

Jauani, have you seen Scary Movie 3? It makes excellent light out of what you mentioned... SOOOOOO funny.

Actually, I give aliens alot of credit for intelligence. They only reveal themselves to conspiracy nuts with cheap cameras. They also know that Earth is a bad neighborhood, so they tend to keep a low profile.

You bring up some good points. After watching Independence Day I learned that Macintosh computers, while not compatible with anything on this planet interface easily with alien motherships.

Knowing this, I think we can see just how stupid aliens are.

As for aliens who burn like acid from water? Imagine a fight. I would be like the "Alien" aliens. I could SPIT ACID. Spitting acid is cool!

If we ever meet any aliens, we probably wont even realize it.

Imagine, for 4 billion years or so, our planet was pretty much humanless. Just fish to talk to, or mostly bacteria, or rocks. For a fraction of that time, humans have existed. Within 10,000 years, probably much before that, we'll probably have replaced ourselves by something computer-like, if we havent wiped ourselves out.

Now imagine the progress that is happeing in computers. There's no particular reason to suppose this will stop. In fact I'm rather partial to Vernor Vinge's Singularity concept, having independently come to the same conclusion, that as the intelligence of computers approaches and exceeds that of humans, that the speed of change will skyrocket explosively.

If you were to approach our planet in 2 billion years, what would you see here? I sorta think it would be so outside our realms of experience we wouldnt even recognize it as a lifeform. it would most likely not really notice us, not more than we notice ants.

Azelda

For those of you interested in helping in the scientific search for extra-terrastial intelligence, there is a "SecondLifers" group at the http://setiathome.berkeley.edu website.

Its kinda kewl... A massively parallel computing effort to use your screensaver to crunch radio telescope data, hoping that a signal from an intelligent extra-terrestial source can be detected.

- Ace

Very Kakuesque, that:

Some people say, “Well why don’t they visit us, these aliens?” Well when you walk down the street and you see an anthill, do you go down to the ants and say, “I bring you trinkets, I bring you beads, I bring you knowledge, I bring you the power of dna, the power of nuclear weapons?” Or do you just step on a few of them?

From:

http://www.greatmystery.org/interviewmk.html

Another problem is how humans tend to anthromorphize our concepts of "alien intelligence", for obvious reasons. Heck, we have enough problems getting along with each other, which is very sad.

Teeny: I just got a copy of FATE magazine in the post. It's got a classic gray looking through a window, saucer in tow. Gonna be fun reading.