Imagine that several hundred years in the future humanity became a spacefaring race and encountered aliens on another planet who had progressed to a 21st century level of technology. Which of the following would you think we should do?

Conducted

March 13, 2017

1799 US adults surveyed

Conducted March 13, 2017

YouGov surveyed 1799 US adults

All adults

Region

Gender

Politics

Age

Make contact and befriend them - it is our duty to help them advance

34%

Make contact and enslave them - they and their planet with be a useful resource

Make contact and exterminate them - aliens pose a threat to human existence

Not make contact and leave them be until they had advanced more - it would be wrong to try and affect their development

29%

Don't know

29%

Conducted March 13, 2017

YouGov surveyed 1799 US adults

Make contact and befriend them - it is our duty to help them advance

34%

Make contact and enslave them - they and their planet with be a useful resource

Make contact and exterminate them - aliens pose a threat to human existence

Not make contact and leave them be until they had advanced more - it would be wrong to try and affect their development

29%

Don't know

29%

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