I like this high energy idea. It could make great sci-fi episodes. It is similar like a bunch of parallel universes, a break in the structure of time and space and all this. Oh, I love these Stargate episodes!

If you just want a collection of pictures just browse through here:
"Human like": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9xai73_n8&feature=related
Grey / Reptilian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWR6WE4z20g&feature=related

Concerning the vibration levels:
You cannot exactly compare this to stuff like vibrations of an EM-wave. It's sort of the way that lets you shift between the dimensions - that's why they're totally invisible to us when being in those higher "vibrations"...

Concerning the fear of people:
Maybe read some reports or studies on this topic - single people may act intelligently but crowds of them tend to behave stupid. If suddenly aliens would show up or make broadcasts on TV without any warning or some people knowing about it there'll be a huge panic in lots of areas. That'll be for different reasons - the most striking certainly being the fear of the unknown together with all the stuff hammered into us from the movies. Then there would be religious people who'll find their entire world view shattered in a matter of seconds and that'll be lots of people. Then there's the part maybe forming up just slowly like us never being space pioneers. We'll never be the first to explore space as at times we'd get into space pretty much everything already would have been explored by someone else. Humanity will never "feel the same" again as we'd be rendered small, tiny and unimportant...

Enjoy your meal
Toast

i too, am a big fan of those kind of scifi things. ever seen sliders? that show is so ninties, its awesome

edit: oh and toast, we ARE small tiny and unimportant. we always were...

Unimportend, yes of course. But the masses are not as dumb as some people claim. Perhaps american masses, because some of them are the most naiv people of the world. But german masses learend there lesson. I think in our country a mass feeling like fear are not possible anymore. (Except somebody nukes one of our towns).

1. Nobody would believe the news first
2. Everybody would compare this news to the swineflue news and say hey they exaggerate it again.
3. Some small groups will go crazy
4. The most of the german people would be happy if there are aliens. They would hope that some of them will destroy the Kanzleramt and kill all politicans like in Mars Attacks
5. Ok, in America some crazy religious groups would commit suicide, other would begin to rob town, only because they can

This are assumptions, too. But you begin with non proofed facts. So, here I am with my unproofed "facts".

i doubt that europeans are smarter than americans. if i check the news, what people think on the street, who they vote, what they do in their spare time, how they WANT to live (not how tehy do live) i come to the conclusion that they are not a bit smarter...

@TheThinker:
Well apart from mass panic reactions being the most probable reaction (although this of course depends a lot of how the aliens would be introduced - if a small craft with a human looking ambassador goes live on TV that would be quite okayish in contrast to an entire alien fleet hovering over a capital broadcasting some "Grey" saying something) you're a bit underestimating things...

For the religious part for example - this isn't all about some cultists comitting suicide. It's about most world religions and so all the Muslims or Christians would suddenly find out that they're not "god's chosen ones" - the one and only unique being with the highest development level of them all. Finding out that there's a race maby million to billion years older than us travelling around with a technology our "official science" can't even really imagine in any realistic or proven way can be quite frightening. People would be totally confused at first: Have they worshipped a wrong god? Will they go to hell for that now? You don't have to be a cultist or something but especially in Europe and America there are immense amount of people really believing in their religion. Their entire "reality" would "go to hell"...

Then there also is going to be this atmosphere of mistrust. It will be pretty much self-evident that all governments around the world pretty much must have lied about this topic. People wouldn't accept their elected representants anymore as they've lied and tricked to an ultimate extent and so pretty much the entire ruling system would break down and martial law probably would get introduced in lots of countries. There also has just to be one bigger country running towards a short-time anarchy to make many more follow if broadcasted news on this topic wouldn't be forbidden in the first place (still the internet would provide the respective informations if it wouldn't get shut down too which on the other hand would create more fear and anger in the first place)...

So you see that just popping up and saying "Hello!" especially if some governments don't want you to do that (which they must certainly don't want because despite any panicking happening or not the trust in them will be gone for sure) is very problematic and as a benevolent race you wouldn't want to do that without any preparations which when you look closer are told to be running for a long time...

Enjoy your meal
Toast

this was a good one.

But seriously, they lie to us all the time and nothing breaks down. SPD told us that they will not increase the value added tax. CDU told they will raise it not more than 2 percent. But in the end they raised it at 3 percent. They all lied and this happens all the time. They even dont excuse themselves for lying. It is their daily work it just belongs to it.

But nothing breaks down. An alien discovery will not change this. The stupid people will sit in front of their TVs and will just eat their junk food as they always did.
And a couple of other people will post in forums

But those things are "unimportant" and most people look at it with boredom and disinterrest. You also can make the people believe that it's necessary and if you repeat that for long enough over the media people will believe it...

That's a whole lot different for an alien disclosure. It wouldn't mean some politicans sugarcoating something. It would mean entire generations of politicians over the whole world would have lied blatently and repeatingly on a topic of immense importance for like over 60 years. You already said yourself that people think of politicians lying a bit here and there. After such an event they would extend that thinking and don't believe a damn single word they're telling as there'd be no reason left to do so...

Together with like ... imagine George W. Bush would still be the US president. Would you want him to maybe go into private with the aliens and decide about the future of at least the US citizens (not that it wouldn't have been like that in general until now but it would be way more evident). You know ... like Mittermeier said:




Enjoy your meal
Toast

i think, humanity will react to aliens liek they reacto to everything:
ATTACK!
here, have a test if youd survive an alien invasion...

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dont spoil the fun for teh kidz

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It's really a nice one, go on and pass it guys/girls ^^