Imagine that you meet some extraterrestrials. How would you describe humankind to them?

Made of a foul tasting, possibly poisonous meat that’s hard to digest.

Run, they will try to take everything you have for themselves…

I would probably go on to tell them that Human Beings as they are now, are not fit to be a celestial body, and that they are (most of the time) suffering from bloated heads and like @RocketSquid said, they taste bad.

Also I would try and convince them that they met me first because I’m the leader of this planet and I’m tired of all of the underlings and I want to leave, but I lack a staff for my ship and its under maintence, so I need a ride. And then I would ask for a lift.

I’d probably just tell them that we are an ungrateful and destructive race that will be their own end.

And then tell them that I am nothing like the rest of them and wish to leave with them promptly.

Compassionate, ruthless, loving, uncaring, altruistic, selfish, ambitious, slovenly, peaceful, violent, intelligent, stupid, tolerant, prejudiced, rational, fallacious

Need I go on?

An interesting novel based around this idea is Alan Dean Foster’s “A Call to Arms.” It’s classic sci-fi cheese, but most of the book is based around how the rest of the galaxies peaceful races deal with the highly intelligent yet surprisingly violent mankind.

@RocketSquid We’re intelligent?

I would tell them that they had better have good intentions or they’d have nuclear missiles bring launched at them from all directions.

Prolific breeders with no concept of limited resources and an inflated opinion of self importance.

a bunch of careless living things

“Welcome to Earth, you work for us now.”

pretty much sums us up

I’d tell them that we were a wasteful useless bunch not to be bothered with. I would thank him for stopping and ask him to move along before he died of toxic fumes or falling trees or vanished along with the rest of our natural resources.

Thanks for coming! Nothing to see here!

I’d tell them not to listen to the rest of you and to listen to Mozart. I’d also tell them to listen to some quality House music while they were here, and to check out the massive arguments we have over the most basic things like knowledge, god, and Physics.

Feeling guilty for existing is not the natural sate of humanity.

@the100thmonkey what a fucking GA Feeling guilty for existing is not the natural sate of humanity. I lurve that.

@the100thmonkey I don’t feel guilty for our existence, I just honestly think that’s what we would do.

@the100thmonkey You sir, win the thread. Lurve granted.

@the100thmonkey *state
@RareDenver *state

@the100thmonkey Ok…I like that. Don’t know exactly how I feel about it, but I like it. GA.

I’d say we have good intentions quite often but get lost on the way to the goal. We love deeply, hate unnecessarily, learn new things constantly, often don’t learn from our own or others mistakes, judge unfairly, help the needy, hurt the innocent, and generally try to get through this life without harming others or the world in general, just as long as it doesn’t inconvenience us too much.

Show them me, and possibly some random lady walking down the street.

I’d show ET a George Carlin stand up special.

I bet those extraterrestrials’ own planets have at least some qualities like ours, so I don’t think it would be that hard.

We are dream beings. Now our dream has come true.