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Why do aliens hate us?

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Irinami:
Blah blah humans are terrible let's make sociological commentary blah blah no thanks. It's been done, and poorly.

I like Wh1sper's idea, personally. Short version at the very bottom:

Maybe they're actually us, from the future. Our genome experiments have allowed us to explore the depths of the universe, to brave the rigors of space travel--rigors involving forces we can only begin to comprehend right now.

Well, some of us. In fact a rather small portion of our trillions upon trillions of humans throughout the galaxies. The side-effect is that the treatments to these rigors make those explorers less and less human each time. Meanwhile the majority of humanity lives relatively unchanged, their lives enhanced by genome therapy.

Except that at some point, an error occurs. A problem of some sort; something was overlooked in the intervening centuries, maybe it was a step discarded as "irrelevant" and yet was crucial to keeping a particular balance in the species. The misshapen human space explorers return to their planets to find worlds of dead bodies. The explorers have a rather limited fertility, and they were explorers--not genetic therapists. So this tiny percentage of future-humanity gets together and develops a last-ditch plan to save humanity: They need to go back in time and stop us from developing this terrible genome therapy.

Unfortunately the journey through a black hole's event horizon or some other such psuedo-scientific explanation of how they got back in time only exacerbates their already daunting problem. They arrive around 1800, and begin reconnaisance and experimentation. Perhaps their medics and science-officers can find something in "pure humans" to revert their problems? Sadly, language and communication has changed so much that these "aliens" don't really even think on the same level as us. They're also hideous to us, and not likely to be believed. Plus, they know that if they just stop in to say "Hi, we're you, and you need to not experiment in genome therapy," we would just reply with "Hi, please stay still while we experiment on you for our genome therapy projects." ;)

Eventually these explorers/future humans begin dying from their time journey. They invade because it's their last chance: Force a paradox that at least allows humanity to survive.

So that's it in a nutshell: They're future humans, come back to keep us from doing something that seems like a fantastic idea at the time.

papabob:
They grew and evolve in a very very very different world than our, with different enviroment and different worries. Their society is as different with the human's one as comparing an ant colony with a panda bear.

So, why should we be able to understand their motivations? They're simply here and want to kill us (maybe not, maybe they're here for other reason and we are only collateral damages), and the unknown factor gives the terror and hysteria to the situation; and allows the doubts of the goverments (if our leaders knew for sure that it is a only-one-winner war, they didn't complaint with funds, they'll give us everything we can need)

HCLivess:
You have fawl imagination. There is no reason for aliens to hate us. They actually love us... It was during the beginning of th cold war, I can still remember. I used to be working as a high officer in one of the naval bases near Texas... There was a deal at that time to be kept between the USA government and the aliens. The first contact was made a decade backwards, just before the WWII started. What we needed was technology to gain dominance in the economy on the wide scale. This would mean allies the upcoming European conflict. Deal with the aliens would grant us a peaceful future even if it ought to have been reached by force among the earthly nations. There was something they requested in return-DNA.

Aliens found out that any further technological advances could have been made only with the new DNA molecules, obtained from our blue world, taken through billion years of evolution. Of course they could have taken it themselves, but no technology was invented by the yet to pass through our atmosphere. It was on the communication base so far. So we exchanged. Aliens adapted our DNA during 27 years. Then they started producing those green Mutons... their "grey" project obviosly did not bring the expected fruit - a weak, fragile, vulnerable body. And it was by that time that things started to turn bad.

The CIA soon found out, that the alien advancement is moving on comparably quickly in comparison to the human experiments with the alien technologies (UFO crashes, sightings). They soon started to produce plan B. The CIA was convinced that too much of the alien advancement would leed them to intentions of mastering the Earth and slavering the human race (just an ordinary US precaution, aliens were peaceful, I had one of them even for my friend). By this time, there were already frequent visits of aliens with the altered DNA. Breathing air, quite resistant to our climates. The communication was on the high level, too.
Until 1984. It came up that a secret military project conducted by the United States and other European superpowers lost cover.

Then somebody sent missiles to destroy one of the vessels on the orbit. the order was directed by the highest officials as far as I can remember.   I was sitting in the headuarters of the CIA... Squads broke in and shot every alien in less then two minutes. You may think you understand, but we lost everything. Hope for the future and our friends. Both civilisations broke apart raging a race war. Aliens againts humans. Them vs. us...

Irinami:
Hey, that's pretty slick! Although it makes me think of a "Aliens in 'Nam!" kinda' thing. Maybe even hippie aliens. Wouldn't that be scary! ;)

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