What if we're the aliens, dude?

Say we have a wild jump in technology, in our lifetime, and we're able to travel beyond light speed. Travel to this place, and find a world teeming with life. How would you decide to continue?

And yes, I did partake in some cannabis when I came up with this question.

Sorry bud, you earthlings are not the aliens. You've been infiltrated already. Have a good day.

Imagine if we didn't get the chicxulub crater, basically would be an alien planet.

@uninspiredcup said:

Imagine if we didn't get the chicxulub crater, basically would be an alien planet.

Lucky.

I shall and a top o' the morning to yeh!

I thought this was about aliens seeding the planet and humans were the offspring.

Top o' the morning? Makes me crave an Irish coffee.

There should be a Prime Directive, but much like the Star Trek crew, I would probably break it frequently.

I want a blue, hot alien waifu, not being the alien... what the hell.

@uninspiredcup said:

Imagine if we didn't get the chicxulub crater, basically would be an alien planet.

My six year old nephew will like this when he hits puberty in a few years.

Assuming he still likes dinosaurs at that point, that is...

Good man.

Leave them alone. Maybe monitor them.

My policy in Stellaris (the amazingly detailed grand-strategy-empire-building-rpg) is to build a space station above their planet and observe so I can gain science points.

I hope by the time we are smart enough to have FTL travel we are also smart enough to know we should just leave things alone.

"To record their findings, a team of scientists analyzed light from K2-18 b's parent star as it passed through the exoplanet's atmosphere. That tiny fraction of starlight eventually reaches telescopes like Webb, leaving traces that astronomers can piece together to determine the gases of the exoplanet's atmosphere, NASA said."

forget the alien talk, the fact that we can point a telescope at a star 120 light years away, have that starlight pass through the tiny sliver of the atmosphere of a planet that happens to pass in front of that star, capture that light, identify that it is different from the rest of the miniscule amount of starlight captured, and identify what elements make of the atmosphere of the planet if pretty fucking bonkers. maybe we are the crazy high tech aliens we see in sci-fi movies...

"what a time to be alive"

It wouldn't matter to me all that much. I already believe in aliens.