• Question: Do you believe there is life off earth? If you met an alien, would you be friends with them or experiment on them?

    Asked by Judieee_ to anuantony, Duncan, Jayne, Katherine, Sajid on 8 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by hamza the best, Laura111205.
    • Photo: Duncan McNicholl

      Duncan McNicholl answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      There might be life in other places, but I’m not certain that there is. If there is something, it’s probably something like a bacteria rather than a big complicated thing like a human, or a leopard, or an orangutan. If I met one, I’d probably try to get someone else to make friends with it because I’d be scared of getting it really wrong and accidentally starting a war. I definitely wouldn’t experiment on them, but I’d probably watch them pretty closely to try to learn as much about them as I could.

    • Photo: Jayne Ede

      Jayne Ede answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      I hope I’d be friends with them. I saw a really interesting video recently which compared aliens visiting us to the way we treat animals. If the aliens that met us were way smarter than us, would they choose to cage/eat us in the way we do to animals? Hmm….

    • Photo: Katherine Byrne

      Katherine Byrne answered on 10 Nov 2017:

      I think it is statistically possible. However, I’m not sure we will ever “make contact” with other forms of life and, even if we did, I wonder if we would know that we had. If we did I hope we’d try to find out about one another in a constructive way – experimenting on each other doesn’t sound good!

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