So what if Galaxy Quest happened in real life.

[Akisa]

So I was watching Galaxy Quest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest) and I was wondering how would the world react if the events happened exactly played out to include the crashing of the the protector bridge into car parking lot and convention center.

At first I wouldn't buy that the show would restart but thinking about makes me think that any technology USA government would want could easily be developed if filmed and placed on the show. Although how would they calm the pissed off people who got their cars wrecked.

[Talanic]

They have...a real spaceship that is at least a few centuries more advanced than anything that Earth has produced. Yes, it's just the detachable bridge from the main starship, but it has its own means of propulsion and enough computer systems to interface with the rest of the ship, run its own life support, etc. It might even have shields (probable - it is the bridge, after all).

Money for starting up the show again and buying a Rolls-Royce for everyone in the crowd, whether or not they personally lost their cars, will not be a problem, as that ship, even if it had been mostly destroyed by the crash (didn't look bad), would still be equal in worth to, oh, Idaho, or something similar. That's not even counting the weapons they brought down, including a handheld disintegration gun.

Honestly, Earth probably had a major war caused by that crash. Too many people saw it for a coverup to be feasible, and that ship is too valuable for any one government to keep.

[Ravens_cry]

Not to mention the weapons technology. That pistol vapourized a mansized target without causing any heating to the surrounding area. Reverse engineering how that works is going to lead some interesting advances in its own right, hopefully not all in weapons technology.

[golentan]

Earth is now a spacefaring civilization in truth. No more "we sent a few people to the nearest orbiting body at tremendous expense," the technology on that ship even if broken has to have a reverse engineerable power source that can lift people to the stars. The galley technology combined with such a power source could end world hunger. Assuming people play their cards right, we become a post scarcity minor multiplanetary species.

And yeah, there will be wars over this. Whole fields of research and industry will be invalidated overnight, and whole new ones will arise in the same span. There will be an arms race, and a space race. and everyone will want a piece of that ship. Espionage like you've never seen since the end of the manhattan project. If the cards aren't played right, earth goes postapocalyptic as conflicts go nuclear.

[Hopeless]

And if they get the full story imagine the panic within the Government (s) once they realise there are hostile aliens out there let alone one of the friendly ones might have to be hidden for their own safety...:smallwink:

So if word gets out that ship was reverse engineered from all of the technobabble from that series whose going to try to build a working TARDIS?:smallamused:

More importantly what other races are out there?

Imagine their reaction that the race those homicidal maniacs were trying to wipe out went to a supposed primeval world and recruited a small group of locals who pretty much wiped out that homicidal ship and its crew... are there other members of that race out there who might be looking to pay them back... and what if those other species come looking to recruit help...:smalltongue:

We heard your species is pretty good in a fight... (In other words you're insane enough that you might actually succeed where everybody else has failed...:smallcool:)

[Jay R]

Although how would they calm the pissed off people who got their cars wrecked.

Don't worry about them. They're just Convention Attendee #6. They're expendable. They're the guys in the episode whose cars get wrecked to prove how serious the situation is.