What if Humans discover primitive aliens...

[Techno-Druid]

Many people have this idea in their minds that otherworldly beings will contact us, but if it's the opposite? Let me cook up this scenario:

Humans, having ascended to a Type III civilization, discover a sapient species of relative cultural and technological primitiveness. What would be the most logical steps for future humans to take?

EDIT: Leave them alone in the second context being completely leaving them untouched and essentially forgetting or ignoring their existence.

[Iannis]

Pave down one of their community gathering spots and put up a Wendy's

[Avar ize]

exterminate them for their oil!

[CallMeGrey]

As always, they'll exterminate them and declare 'ownership' of all their resources. If any survive, they'll be enslaved.

[Garnier Fructis]

[tikcol]

First we should find out if they're tasty. We could breed them like pigs.

Secondly we could find out if they're useful somehow, could we ride them like horses?

Lastly, are they good pets?

[Moralgy]

As always, they'll exterminate them and declare 'ownership' of all their resources. If any survive, they'll be enslaved.

I imagine that we would destroy their defenses then enslave the entire race. They would become pets, slaves, be experimented on against their will, or even eaten if it was safe. I really don't have a lot of faith in humans to be kind to anything we view as "lesser" than us even if they do have sapience.

[Independent voter]

How do they taste? It's not cannibalism if it's not your species.

[Atraxxa]

My guess would be this would set off a massive space race between nations for control over the new planet that could end up being the catalyst for a world war. We exterminate them and us in the process

[Noomz]

Many people have this idea in their minds that otherworldly beings will contact us, but if it's the opposite? Let me cook up this scenario:

Humans, having ascended to a Type III civilization, discover a sapient species of relative cultural and technological primitiveness. What would be the most logical steps for future humans to take?

EDIT: Leave them alone in the second context being completely leaving them untouched and essentially forgetting or ignoring their existence.

I discover a clickbait title. Then I report it.

[Deleted]

Enter contact, careful not to give them any technology and help them with their problems. Assist them in accelerating their development but without (as possible) influencing them too much. Not really uplift, more like "hey buddy, i got way more tech, need a water filter?"

[Deleted]

Other. Discover their society as a new market for our products.

Well, and think about product diversification. As like bobble hats for creatures with tentacles.

At the end, capitalism could be the best peaceful answer.

[Pyro1990]

We'll steal a few to bring back for study.

80% of the alien population will be wiped out by the common cold that was intruduced when humans landed on their planet.

Astronaut John starts getting inexplicable nose bleeds but he dismisses them as nothing. His little son Jimmy catches the space flu from his dad and spreads the desease around at school. Next thing you know we have a world wide epidemic with millions dead.

[seventysix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8qs1u96ttQ

leave them alone lol

[petok]

exterminate them for their oil!

Nailed it!

[Deleted]

Many people have this idea in their minds that otherworldly beings will contact us, but if it's the opposite? Let me cook up this scenario:

Humans, having ascended to a Type III civilization, discover a sapient species of relative cultural and technological primitiveness. What would be the most logical steps for future humans to take?

EDIT: Leave them alone in the second context being completely leaving them untouched and essentially forgetting or ignoring their existence.

Ignore them. A type III civilisation, that controls the energy output of an entire galaxy would have as much interest in a sub-type-I primitive civilsation as we ourselves do an individual termite nest.

The best they could hope for would be not swept out of existance either to clear the way...or because we simply did not notice them, as a construction company building a new office block doesn;t notice an ant's nest being destroyed

Type-III civilisation is as near to being gods as anything is likely to get. Almost nothing would be beyond them. They could move whole solar systems at will, put Dyson spheres around every star, master the power of supernovas, massive black holes. At that point they might even detonate stars to order to serve as a power source for a project.

Think of it - commanding the energy output of the entire Milky Way Galaxy - over 100 billion stars.

Remember that Star Trek's federation or Star Wars' Empire barely qualify as Type-I, because to qualify for Type-II you have to harness the energy output of a whole star. They're sort of type 1.5, more than planetary, but not yet up to 2. Although maybe either could reach 2 if they really tried, likel building a Dyson sphere. Probably the Empire is closer, as they can build something as big as the Death Star - likely beyond the Federation.

And whilst the Federation cares about primitve races, the Empire doesn't.

[Taso]

Study them and if they are humoniod see how they interact with the planets own ecosystem. As for resources I guess regulation would come into mind but Id rather not take what isn't ours. Now if it was a dead planet filled with uranium,oil,coal, wood or a variant of natural gas or some similar substance then yes lets build and create market.
To be quite honest this has me thinking of civilization: Beyond earth and the countless scenarios that could be run.

[Wiyld]

You should really put a "what if" in your thread title. Click-bait as fuck.

This conversation is also pretty irrelevant without knowing the circumstances our society is in during this hypothetical. I'd say that morally, we should leave them be for the most part. Perhaps they'd never be able to advance past this primitive stage with our without our help but it could be detrimental to their species if we assume they can't regardless and treat them as some kind of animal.

If some alien species came to earth while we were still living in caves, they'd likely think of us as just animals and if they treated us as such then they'd essentially be oppressing us to the point that we would have never advanced.

I look at it the other way around

Aliens land when we live in caves.

One of the aliens is like 'hey randy, lookit these idiots...heheh, wouldn't it be funny if we taught it to talk'? 'Duuuur talk monkey talk...duuur hahahahah stupid monkey;....


and the rest is literally history

[Travis B]

Is this alien species cute and cuddly? If so, keep them as pets.

[Deleted]

It's the doomsday for whoever we meet.