I like to think it’s also the aliens’ first contact too, and they’re really happy to find us after groping around alone in the darkness.

Seeing how incohrrent and fractured humanity is, we'd meet them with a jumbled mix of:

• Rabid xenophobia
• Aggressively trying to convert them to a dozen of our different religions
• Forming multiple cults worshipping them as gods
• Creating a shit load of really weird rule 34 AI-generated porn focused on them
• Dismissing their existence as some sort of a deep fake conspiracy
• Trying to sell them some worthless shit for a massive profit
• Trying to sell them fellow humans as slaves
• Trying to steal their technology to conquer the galaxy
• Flooding then with brainrot memes for the lolz
• Trying to destroy them with conventional weapons

And they would see all this and either destroy us in disgust or get the hell out of the solar system ASAP and cordon it off with hazard signs.

Given that they have the means to have travelled from another world (presumably from outside the Solar System, as there are no signs of space colonising extraterrestrials in our neighbourhood we can observe), they must be technologically far superior to us. My guess is that they would treat us, little guys on a blue marble, like we do with ants.

Although ants have a very intricate way of life, with jobs, conflict, infrastructure, etc., most humans don't put too much thought into keeping them safe, we trample on their cities that we say are primitive compared to our own, and we export some ants to new worlds. Additionally, even among our own species, colonialism was commonplace in all parts of the world throughout the world and its remnants still exists today, as one group of people believed they were superior to another.

Intelligent extraterrestrials capable of interplanetary (and probably interstellar) travel would definitely outclass us in every metric, and they could easily wipe us out, either by accident or on purpose (through disease, conflict, colonisation, etc.)

However, I hope that these extraterrestrials eventually acknowledge our existence as a civilisation. A little like how there are entomologists who study ants for a living and conservationists who preserve their habitats. Or perhaps organisations like UNESCO, in charge of protecting dying cultures and lost traditions, could be formed by these extraterrestrials. Maybe treaties of reparations and acknowledgement of past crimes would be signed between our species, like how many countries do today.

That's just my thoughts though.

Within less than an hour, Rule 34 will come into effect and someone will make a porn-film about them.

If they came to us it would not be for the resources on earth, there are plenty more in space easier to get. I think it would be curiosity. They would study us, and probably all life on the planet.

Hopefully with curiosity comes empathy and they uplift us.

But seriously though, it depends on the type of aliens we’re encountering here. If they’re malevolent, they will probably wipe the earth clean and take all the resources.

If they’re more benevolent, they’ll just take pity on us, and turn back. Humanity is a problem that will fix itself if you just give it some time.

War, then our extermination.

Try to kill them

Die of some random common illness we don't have any antibodies for.

Hopefully a species advanced enough to master interstellar travel would be mindful of that kind of thing though. I suppose at least they would probably be protecting themselves against that, so maybe it would go both ways?

Trump will post on Truth that we had a war and we won.

One group will sell out the rest of us, guaranteed.

Trying to overcome language barriers, probably.

Do you mean like if an alien just showed up on my doorstep and was like, "take me to your leader"? Because I would ask, "How about we just chill here for a bit?" because nothing good is going to come from the next part.

A breakdown in society as people report it as hoaxes, missinformation spreading everywhere, religious groups fragmenting over if they prove or disprove their gods existence. The same bullshit whenever world shaking event happens.

They would be sick of our shit in 5 minutes

It depends on what the extraterrestrials are like. I think its probable they would be as incomprehensible to us as we are to fish or bugs. I am confident that a significant percentage of people will immediately freak out and react with aggression regardless of what they are like, and that the wealthy will be looking for any way to make money from them, even if it means selling out life on earth.

Watch the movie “Contact” for a good depiction of this.

To be realistic I think they would have scanned our airwaves and observed from afar and decided to get the hell out of this quadrant of the galaxy. If they needed our resources then it would be like the "Independence Day" movie, only the aliens would easily win.

Pretty much everything from the graphic-novel Signal from Space.

General societal breakdown in various sectors.

Also, it would unite most of humanity in ways we have never seen before.

A fantastic amount of talking. The militaries would want to be in readiness, for example, just in case the extraterrestrials are not friendly, and the diplomatic corps would be doing their best to figure out how to communicate with them.

A lot of religions might also be thrown a bit into the air by the arrival of aliens, so there would be some chatter there, too.

Are aliens subject to human rights? Are they beings also made in God's image, etc.

Their attitude towards us really depends on what their evolutionary pressures were. If resources were/are plentiful, they might have a less aggressive nature and simply wish to meet us. Otherwise, we might be on the chopping block.

As for us. I imagine a decent portion of humanity would immediately default to rampant xenophobia or weirdly sexual obsession.

What do you mean "meet"? The way we would reach contact is by radio signals at first, not by actual physical visits. So at first we would only be communicating with probably a very long light delay as they'd be very far away. Realistically speaking neither would be able to visit the other in any feasible way, unless they have technology that is far, far beyond what we can imagine right now. Interstellar travel is very hard.

I don't think it would be in the advantage of a smart civ to willfully contact another smart civ till it is confirmed that the "to be contacted" civ has a really good understanding of game theory.

You cannot negotiate mutually assured destruction with a civ that does not understand what mutually assured destruction means.

Do I think we would be destroyed if some other alien civ finds us? No. If civ A observes civ B destroying civ C, everyone would want to destroy civ B immediately. The possibility of there being peaceful contact for civ B goes away.

Also, contacting us must be in the benefit of the civ that contacts us (assuming they are rational).

YOU ARE BUGS

Breed with them and eat them.

If you subtract the satire from the movie Mars Attacks, pretty much that. Uh uh uh.