"WHAT IF We Discovered A Multinational Alien Planet?" Topic

You KNOW why the IAU, (International Astronomical Union) downgraded Pluto from 'PLANET' to 'DWARF Planet' was because they KNEW that when the New Horizons space probe passed the far side of it, (where we normally can't see), there would be a HUGE sign in some alien language that spells out,

"Do Not Feed the Monkeys!"

Sgt DWW-btod

'Just another poo-flinging day in the jungle!'

'Just another poo-flinging day in the jungle!'

For a jungle monkey, isn't that just delivering male?

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It would depend on what they hd to offer us vis a vis what we could offer them.
Humans are opportunists, whihc is no bad thing until someone makes it so.
There's no reason to assume any other intelligent species out there wouldn't be pretty much the same.
Life is all about quid pro quo.

I wish I knew the original source and context for this image:

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Dan

The Prime Directive was all part of Roddenberry's whole pie in the sky vision of the future.

It was a nice dramatic element to give Star Trek some sort of moral compass and to provide interesting plot obstacles, but not very realistic.

-Eli

I would like to think human beings being moral is not a pie in the sky vision of the future…

I think we should make circles in their crops and leave.

has anyone mentioned the novel "Jem" by the recently departed Fred Pohl?

Exactly the scenario described . . . .

I wrote a short Star Wars story a few years back (an abortive attempt at a NanoWrimo entry) that involved a planet where part of the world belonged to the Republic and part didn't. I think we primarily have to blame Star Trek for the "monolithic alien planet-states" trope.