Would aliens from another planet find us tasty?

Question

I often wonder if we were discovered by aliens greatly advanced from us, that they could see us as a lower lifeform and a potential food source.

Think about it. How much thought do you give to the cow that made that steak your eating? Why would hungry aliens be any different to us?

Do we really want to be discovered or to find them?

Was it a mistake to send a probe into space with directions on how to find Earth on it?

Could that probe doom mankind?

Answer 1

The voyager craft will tke too long to reach even the nearest star in its direction, let alone the nearest inhabited world, to cause any danger to us. For aliens finding it would be like for us to find a stonehammer made by a caveman thinking those are the most dangerous weapons on earth. The level we will be on when, if, aliens find that disc would give them a real run for their money if they chose to pick a fight.

But humanity has been sending out radiosignals for about a century and those have reached every world within a 100 lightyear radius. It isn´t likely that a civilized world resides so close to us but there are over 400 stars within that radius. And the aliens wouldn´t require directions to find us. They would pinpoint our location through parallax.

SETI sent out a signal in 1974. Kind of a microwave version of the message on Voyager. It is still headed towards the M13 starcluster. At 21000 lightyears the signal has some distance to go but will reach its destination before Voyager. We´d be pretty safe from harm by then as we´d have 21000 years of additional technological development under our belt. Or we´d be extinct at by our own hands. Either way.

But our little world might have sparked an interest in alien worlds long before that. For a billion years our own atmosphere has been betraying us. For a billion years there has been oxygen in our atmosphere which would be proof of there being life here. So if at any point during the past billion years there has been an alien civilization within one billion lightyears from us with the technological capability we will be in within 20 years, if they had been looking they would have found us. And there are plenty of stars within a 1 billion lightyear radius from earth.

Aliens might very well find us tasty if a little greasy. Advanced aliens would probably be on Atkins...

Answer 2

Man has the thirst to know the unknown, to discover knowledge.In that sense, sending the probe was not a mistake.
If that probe succeeds to discover life at space,that will be a victory for mankind.No matter whether the aliens eat us or not.
We eat cows,that's right.But do we eat flies or ants? We can be similar to a fly to the aliens.We will be far behind in technology from the advanced aliens.In that case, will they consider us eatable?

Answer 3

Aliens would be based on some sort of DNA. it would be close to ours but some differences could exist that would make any real contact with them very dangerous.
There is probably no real super intelligence,they probably parallel us closely in intelligence and technology.
SETI is the best chance of finding proof that they exist,that probe they sent out may escape the solar system but it will never likely get close to another star.
Mankind will doom itself.

Answer 4

No other advanced being would eat us as we would be too poisonous - Proved by our own actions.

The cow is a innocent animal - cannot compare to any Human!

Maybe not - they might wipe us out (same as we do for pests)

Depends on how you look at it

Maybe

Answer 5

I'm not sure, good question. I know one thing though,this meal isn't going to go down easy.

Answer 6

i hope not gewd question
: ' ( im not nummy.....

Answer 7

Maybe, Maybe not. Then again, ....

Answer 8

I hope not !!