Assistance requested: Alien survey

[Kornkid]

I'd ask,

How do they feed and mate?

What do they feed on?

How far they have explored the universe?

and various other posted Questions.

[j_p]

... We still do not know exactly what consciousness is. ..

I wasn't going to start with that' date=' but if we don't know what consciousness is, how are we assuming it? My initial mental response to your statement [i']was[/i], "Define 'conscious' ", but I was afraid of changing the direction of the post.

 

I am having much more fun considering sentient life without language; how would humans even recognize it?

 

Rule 87 in Ophiolite's Lexicon of Life: never cut an MBA any slack (especially if they are from Harvard)

 

Play nice, you are going to need them for your IPO.

[Guest alienmba]

Sorry to those interested in the results, for those interested, all submissions were put onto 2 independent surveys, and 24 questions received enough response to be shortlisted (in no particular order):

 

1. How can we help you?

2. How would you describe your socio-organisational-political system in terms of your history?

3. Why did you come to Earth?

4. What can you tell us that would benefit our civilisation?/What could we learn from you?

5. Does time mean anything to you?

6. How many civilisations are there in the galaxy and how do they interact?

7. Can you express your technology in terms that we would understand?

8. Give us everything you've got!

9. Does God exist?

10. Do you have emotions (do you feel love)?

11. What are your greatest threats?

12. How do you reproduce/procreate?

13. Do parallel universes exist?

14. What food or fuel do you use?

15. What senses do you possess?

16. What psychic power do you have?

17. Where are you from?

18. How did you get here?

19. Do you speak English?

20. What is your homeworld like?

21. Can we co-exist in peace?

22. Would you be willing to conquer our plant and rule it as a fiefdom, thus uniting our people for the

first time in global history and, finally, eliminating war, disease and poverty?

23. Have you been here before?

24. How can you help us?

 

 

Some of the suggestions on the shorlist were slightly modified according to the following criteria provided to us for the project. The top 10 questions (in order of first to be asked to last to be asked) are:

 

1. Why have you come here?

2. How many civilisations are there in the galaxy and how do they interact?

3. How can we help, and learn from, each other?

4. How would you describe your socio-organisational-political system in terms of your history?

5. Where are you from?

6. How did you get here?

7. How do you reproduce/procreate?

8. What are your spiritual and religious views?

9. What details can you express about your technologies (in terms that we would understand)?

10. What is your homeworld like?

 

Thank you to all those that submitted a response, the assistance of people on this site greatly assisted us through providing questions for our surveys.