Aliens on earth

remembers the crickett wars from "The Hichhiker's Guide To The Galaxy"

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How about water polo on Europa? A great place to relax and play, if you don't mind playing the game under 20 miles of ice pack and frozen water!

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Also remembers "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", and interstellar billiards:
"...planet potted into a black hole, 6 billion dead... tragic, really."
Apologies if quote incorrect - done from memory.

 

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According to DC Comics, Martians are super-strong shapeshifters. They wouldn't stoop to table tennis - not when they could be bat, table or ball within seconds of each other, and propell the ball into orbit with a strong backhand!

Their ideal sport would be some sort of freeform wrestling, victory going to the most inventive and effective body morphing.

 

Bah. What do DC Comics know? My Martians are Heinleinian.
I envisage shapeshifting aliens taking sprinting to another level as well - a kind of lethal asault course, with bonuses for lack of injuries.

 

What about sky-surfing on Jupiter?

No ground to hit - just hours and hours of freefall, though multicoloured clouds of differing composition. Ride the hydrogen winds and cruise down the endless mountains of mist; extra points given for avoiding the superbolts of lightning. Just need to home in on the balloon bases floating in the deeper layers of the atmosphere, where you can end your descent before being crushed and boiled in the abyss.

 

How about the asteroid long jump - far more skill necessary than the terrestrial version!

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And of course there's always Jovian storm-sailing (anyone else reading/read The Algebraist?).

 

LoL DeeCee!

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I think you just made science your bitch...
and I think science liked it!

 

Just that!?

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How inspiring....

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Sounds like the next round of alien sports in the solar system should be a lot of fun to watch. I hope we don't have to wait another 5 million years for the next intrasolar system olympic games to start..........I'm going to look forward to watching a table tennis match between Preditor and Alien for starters!

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Give it a few centuries, and humanity may be in a position to invite various alien races over here for just such an event. We could host the Hyades Stream Intersystem Games.

 

Sounds good to me. Maybe I can hang in there for another few centuries and watch the games from my cryogenchamber. I might have to thaw out first.......

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The Hyades against the Plough! I like it!
(Mellote 25 v Collinder 285 for astronomers)

 

Of course, the rules of each specific game would have to take account of the relative physical abilities of the different competing races. I mean, you couldn't very fairly pit humans against marine cephalopoids in a swimming races; or have our athletes run against sentient centipedes with a low-energy sulphur-based metabolism, whose top speed is half a mile per hour...

 

would be fun to watch though

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they could draw a sports style on random. ..then watch the frustration of someones

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or you could organize them in virtual reality

 

In that case, there would be no realneed for interstellar travel at all - just real-time interstellar communication and data transfer (which is perhaps even more improbable... :bugeye: )

 

two words -> entangled particles

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5 words -> gotta get them there first...

 

that's a one time venture. you could send them together with the colonists or whatever.

 

When the aliens come, they will eat the fat people first.
I am planning to watch them from my porch as they run around and scream, zipping my proteine shake...