Alien Ultimatum

[Atheist-Lite]

It's the day the earth stood still. Aliens land and tell the people of earth that they have nothing the aliens want but represent a danger to smarter and more peaceful worlds, should pesky humans ever climb out of the gravity well. So they'll destroy all human life with a lethal virus in six weeks, along with 'robot scavengers' to pick off the stragglers. You have that much time to either change or come up with a plausible 'famous last line'. So how would you as a individual change and how would you see people on earth change in that six weeks? Do you see people organising a world government? Being nicer or what?

[Thinking Aloud]

People with placards would shout a lot. People in governments would fire huge missiles at anything and everything alien in origin, to no effect. From space, people would look like ants routed out of a nest. People would have sex a lot. Lots of them would kill each other. The aliens would watch impassively and say, "Yes. We were right."

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I have no hope for the human race as a whole either.

[Mysturji]

"Umm... excuse me, Mr. alien sir, but who let YOU out of the gravity well?"

[Atheist-Lite]

"Umm... excuse me, Mr. alien sir, but who let YOU out of the gravity well?"

We got given more time to change. Big mistake, human.

[Mysturji]

"You don't sound very peaceful to me. I'd like to talk to your supervisor please."

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line and the next available world government head will answer your call in the order it was received."

[Brian Peacock]

The ultimatum would bring out the best and the worst in us, but the worst would win out because that shit always stinks the place up for everybody.

• "If only the aliens had announced and evacuation program for all the well-intention, good-hearted people - surely their superior technology could have sifted the wheat from the chaff? The Good could then have reseed the planet and developed hand in hand with the enlightened alien races. The achievements of humanity would not have been rendered some fantastically pointless.
  
  Seems a shame to waste a whole town just because some of its citizens ain't too nice."
  • Epitaph scrawled on a wall somewhere.

[Thinking Aloud]

Loonies of Earth: "You can't destroy the Earth! It's where God sent his Son to Save you! Accept Jesus into your hearts!"

Alienigo Montoya: "We do not possess hearts. You are idiotic. Prepare to die."

[klr]

It took me a while to track it down, but there was something in the 1980's version of The Twilight Zone that fits right into this discussion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Small_Ta ... ht_Zone%29

[Clinton Huxley]

I'd get a drunken crop-duster to fly his biplane into one of the alien space-ships. Nice try, aliens!

[Atheist-Lite]

I'd get a drunken crop-duster to fly his biplane into one of the alien space-ships. Nice try, aliens!

That will provoke a penalty of a lost week. Now it's 4 weeks and six days. Don't try that stunt again.

[Clinton Huxley]

I'd get a drunken crop-duster to fly his biplane into one of the alien space-ships. Nice try, aliens!

That will provoke a penalty of a lost week. Now it's 4 weeks and six days. Don't try that stunt again.

What about if we build a giant wooden rabbit....

[Atheist-Lite]

I'd get a drunken crop-duster to fly his biplane into one of the alien space-ships. Nice try, aliens!

That will provoke a penalty of a lost week. Now it's 4 weeks and six days. Don't try that stunt again.

What about if we build a giant wooden rabbit....

Going cargo cult now? history shows when you've lost everything then you've nothing left to lose, I suppose?

[Atheist-Lite]

I'd get a drunken crop-duster to fly his biplane into one of the alien space-ships. Nice try, aliens!

That will provoke a penalty of a lost week. Now it's 4 weeks and six days. Don't try that stunt again.

What about if we build a giant wooden rabbit....

Going cargo cult now? history shows when you've lost everything then you've nothing left to lose, I suppose?