If an alien asked you go home with them

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Lets say you having a meetup with aliens, from a far distant galaxy. You meet them on the planet Mars.
They show you a few things, try to communicate etc then ask you would you like to go home with them, or go back
to earth, to continue life life more or less the same with but with a 40% rise whatever income you currently
have. The aliens didn't say whether they will bring you back or what it is like on their planet.

I'd go back to Earth. I wouldn't want to leave my friends, family and belongings behind.

The income rise wouldn't be a factor for me.

But I'd need to know more about these aliens...

Do they have sharp teeth? Do they look a bit peckish?

Are they purple? Or are they grey with big almond eyes?

What kind of things do they show me? If they are things of loveliness, sparkliness, or kittens, then I could be persuaded.

Maybe they would let me bring one or two people along with me. Then they might have a deal.

I'd be like 'this plan is out of this world, dude'.

If they were alien cones, then that would be another matter!
But if they were just aliens, I'd go back home myself.

I'd go with the aliens. I'd assume they are nice and friendly ones - E.T. like ones and not Predator like ones Btw, in the Tatra Mountains we had some mysterious disapearances - the seers saw in their visions the people who vanished, were taken by UFO

I have no income.... =(

Either way I would go with them for sure. Life here is too boring anyways, aliens seem like they would be more fun.

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Provided their planet had an environment suitable for human life I would go. Though if they offered me a 40% raise I guess I would stay as I see that as a hint that they don't really want me to come...

"You can come with us... or we will give you money to not come!"

Seems like the aliens are just being polite but probably don’t like me because they are offering me an incentive to get away from them.

Goof point, FearOfMusic!

I've stay here, I think. Unless I could come back eventually, and have some people with me during my stay.

Any civilization technologically advanced enough to travel to Earth from a distant galaxy in a reasonable amount of time would likely be intelligent and peaceful. I would do almost anything to go with them back to their own home planet.

What if they were an evil and primitive civilization who had hold of technology that they hadn't created themselves?

It would depend on what the alien looked like.

Maybe they'd be able to appear human.

I meet them on Mars? How did I get there?

(edit to expand on that: if the scenario is that the aliens took me to Mars, then it is presupposed that I have consented to go along with them and am in their power anyway. If I've gone to Mars by myself and met them there, a lot depends on how I managed that.)

Also how distant is "far distant?" And what sort of drive have they used to get here? Because if it's a genuinely far distant galaxy (as galaxies go) and they've got here STL then they're going to be very strange aliens indeed...

Did have an interesting thought - an alien from a "close" galaxy might, with a bit of luck, be able to use their relative motion about their own galactic centre, and our relative motion around ours, and the relative motion of the two galaxies, to make a jump where they wouldn't need to do much velocity matching at the other end, if they had an instantaneous jump drive. That'd be cool. It would make a good SF story background if transit between neighbouring galaxies was restricted like that. It's probably not the case for anywhere near the Milky Way, but somewhere there must be galaxies close to each other (like Andromeda distance) whose spin axes are aligned.

Unless I'm missing something obvious, please tell me.

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They wouldn't need to be violent with that sort of technology.

The reason why we're violent is because we have limited resources. In ancient times we fought for land and food. Now we fight for money. If we had the technology to take advantage of the nearly infinite resources scattered throughout the vast distances of space, none of that would matter. Space is so big, there's so many stars and planets, any sort of fighting would be unnecessary. There's enough for everyone.

Well if some random person came up to me, claimed they were an alien and asked me to go with them i'd run, fast!