"What if" and isn't that always the question? What if an alien species that was of equal intelligence, or greater intelligence than that of mankind were to visit the Earth; how would we go about this opportunity? Would we immediately exploit their advanced technology to use in weapon designs? Would we treat them with respect, or would we immediately set up a "them versus us" scenario? Would we block them off from the rest of the world, force them into a small space? Would we help them, or would we treat them as we often treat ourselves? Yes, these are lots of questions.
And if these are things that you might like to think about, or consider the philosophy behind it all, well then there is a movie that I would highly like to recommend to you, the movie is called District 9.
Indeed, it says a lot about how humanity treats our own species, and it does so in a setting in the future, and begs the question, if we don't treat ourselves well, how would we treat an alien race? Indeed, this was probably the best movie for fall of 2009.
The science fiction action is absolutely incredible, and the depiction of the alien technology is an extension of our own technologies off into the future, not more than a couple of decades from now.
In fact, I not only recommend that you go see this movie, but I recommend you take one of your intellectual friends, and then discuss the movie after it is over, and maybe it will open your eyes a bit.
This movie makes us all look into our own mirror of humanity.
And it's about time we start looking too.
Please consider all this.