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Matthew28

(1,926 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 04:55 AM 3 hrs ago

Lets say an alien space ship visted

Lets say an alien space ship visited our planet next year...Lets say it was 50 miles in diameter holding upwards of 25 million aliens. A power source of this ship was a white dwarf star of .5 miles diameter. These aliens were millions of years more advance then us and had an avg iq of 800. These aliens also merged with a.i early in their histories....They come in complete peace and wish to live with us and will share their tech and knowledge.

Would you approve of this?

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DFW

(60,728 posts)
2. I see a fundamental conflict in the premise
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:03 AM
3 hrs ago

Why would a civilization with an average IQ of 800, and millions of years more advanced than we are want to live with US?

I would think that such a civilization, once they got a good look at us, would quickly steer their vessel to the other side of the galaxy.

Intractable

(2,549 posts)
3. I've read/watched enough sci-fi to know that for sure, the aliens are coming here for our resources like air and water,
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:49 AM
2 hrs ago

and they will upload a few cows and humans, and the humans will get anal probes.

Eventually, the people will come back with sore butts, and no memory of how it happened.

DFW

(60,728 posts)
4. Close Encounters of the Uncomfortable Kind
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 05:53 AM
2 hrs ago

Close Encounters meets Independence Day. A rainy Sunday in front of the DVD is what that sounds like!

DFW

(60,728 posts)
6. I see I have been missing something
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 06:00 AM
2 hrs ago

We don't get South Park here in Germany. I have never seen an episode.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,793 posts)
9. "a power source of this ship was a white dwarf star of .5 miles diameter"
Sun Jun 21, 2026, 06:27 AM
1 hr ago

What does this mean?

Astronomers may have discovered the smallest and heaviest white dwarf star ever seen, a smoldering ember about the size of our moon but 450,000 times more massive than Earth, a new study finds.

White dwarfs are usually about the size of Earth and are the cool, dim cores of dead stars that are left behind after average-size stars have exhausted their fuel and shed their outer layers. Our sun will one day become a white dwarf, as will about 97% of all stars.

https://www.space.com/moon-size-white-dwarf-smallest-densest-ever-discovered

Even if you could carve off a bit of a white dwarf to be 0.5 miles in diameter, I don't think it would stay a white dwarf - the interaction between gravity and other forces would fundamentally change its structure, density and temperature.
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