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re: If aliens visit earth, isn't it likely we will be wiped out by a new disease?
Posted on 4/6/15 at 2:45 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 4/6/15 at 2:45 pm to Jim Rockford
I'd guess the odds would be slim that we even had enough bilogoically in common to catche each others diseases.
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Posted on 4/6/15 at 2:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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If germs from one continent can wipe out an entire other continent's population, then I shudder to think what germs from another planet could do.
the reason this happened historically is because there were members of the same species (man) on both continents, and the old world humans had been exposed to far more deadly diseases than the new world humans.
there are clearly a lot of things to be concerned about if we encounter aliens, but unless they're actually human, the diseases they carry are pretty low on the list.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 2:49 pm to gorillacoco
So we can frick them without rubbers? 
Posted on 4/6/15 at 2:59 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
The ER is full of sick aliens
Posted on 4/6/15 at 3:02 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Yes. Yes you can.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 3:08 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Honestly, no. As far as we know, they are not at all compatible with our bodies and wouldn't know what to do with our cells. It's the same reason why we don't get dog sicknesses and they don't get human sicknesses for the most part. These viruses and bacteria evolve alongside those animals. Only reason it was so effective against the native americans is because we had the same genes but not the same viruses.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 3:13 pm to sassyLSU
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aliens are already here
True. This is where the gays and the Aids came from. And Bono.
They think we all stoopid.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 3:16 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
They already made a movie about the reverse of this. 
Posted on 4/6/15 at 3:31 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Same for them in that case
Posted on 4/6/15 at 3:42 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
What do you think caused the plagues?
Posted on 4/6/15 at 3:53 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Will never happen, because...
Posted on 4/6/15 at 3:54 pm to DeathValley85
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Odds are if aliens have the technology to come visit us.....they aren't coming in peace.
If they are that advanced, odds are they are more civil than humans are, and even we don't want to start shite on other planets.
Visiting aliens would likely find our atmosphere less than compatible, and would need protective suits or stay in ships.
What we would get visited by would be unmanned (un-aliened) vehicles. Robots and cyborgs and such.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:40 pm to BayouBlitz
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If they are that advanced, odds are they are more civil than humans are, and even we don't want to start shite on other planets.
I don't see why that's necessarily the case. They just have to work well together, but could be barbaric as frick to other creatures. Ants are basically what I have in mind for this.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:43 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
They could also be wiped out by our viruses and such. Just saying
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:43 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Bunch of dumb mother frickers in this thread. Why do people assume aliens would attack us
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:47 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I am not aware of humans giving diseases to ants. If aliens have the technology to reach earth today, we are no more than ants to them. Disease or not, we would be quickly eradicated. We think nothing of killing ants. Why would we?
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I really don't think that's how it works. An alien species would come from a completely different evolutionary path. Their diseases in whatever form that they may take probably wouldn't be evolved to attack our biology. Even now on this planet with species that came from relatively very similar evolutionary paths, I'm pretty sure that most diseases are species specific and take a random mutation and prolonged proximity to make a jump between species.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:48 pm to Macintosh504
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Bunch of dumb mother frickers in this thread. Why do people assume aliens would attack us
That is the most prevalent theory. I don't know why that comes across as unintelligent to you. Think of Europeans invading the New World. They did not intend to live peacefully with the Indians. They wanted their resources.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 10:55 pm to McCaigBro69
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You would think....but when the spanish came to America didn't only the european diseases knock out the aztecs and not vice versa?
The Spanish and Europeans had more "germs" and therefore more resistence to "germs" because of living in close proximity to animals. Native Americans had few if any domesticated animals.
Posted on 4/6/15 at 11:04 pm to LucasP
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Are you suggesting we frick the aliens?
I'm suggesting that Paige fricks the aliens. She could be the savior of the human race.
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