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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?
GReedDiamond
(5,566 posts)...welcome, human.
DFW
(60,728 posts)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)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)Close Encounters meets Independence Day. A rainy Sunday in front of the DVD is what that sounds like!
Intractable
(2,549 posts)DFW
(60,728 posts)We don't get South Park here in Germany. I have never seen an episode.
lapfog_1
(32,059 posts)those bastards!
struggle4progress
(127,102 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(106,793 posts)What does this mean?
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.
Polybius
(22,270 posts)Sounds like a dream come true, although we may be incapable of learning if their average iq is 800. Think about an incredibly intelligent human with an iq of 200 trying to teach someone with an iq of 150. They wouldn't comprehend it.
Now imagine 800 trying to teach 115 or so. Probably impossible.