The aliens who arrived need our help in 3000 years?

Are you too lazy or unimaginative to come up with an explanation?
Let's reverse the question...
If YOU were being paid $100K to write a sequel script what scenario would you create?

I will have to re-watch this movie, i didn't get that they where asking for help at all xD

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illogical, Just because something is considered by some as inferior in a certain field doesn't mean that "inferior" species cannot help them. i wonder why people even have to ask this.

Humankind can travel through space, kill people with a droplet on a doorknob, create watches to call your house, follow you with a satellite, but cannot cure the common cold or cancer. If we could travel through time to find an alien race that COULD cure cancer, aids and such, wouldn't you do everything you could to make sure you could communicate with them?? To save people?

One thing that is a constant about earth is that it has many resources not available on other planets that we know of currently. What if this alien race needed one of earth's resources that hasn't been found by man yet but will be in 3000 years? This is what theoretical concepts are about. Not all people will accept this concept, but that's the fun bout having theoretical concepts and being a writer--you can create anything you want. I do recommend people read the short story--it's quite good.

I also think writers and film have made the assumption, causing viewers to perceive that alien races are far more intelligent than humans. Sure, they have obvious technology that mankind doesn't, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't need help from us: If anything, I think an alien race would NOT come to man because of our history of violence. An intelligent alien race would see that we kill each other/segregate each other based on differences and not accepting each other, so humans being open to an alien race? Highly doubtful--in fact that was one of the biggest plot holes I saw: the reality is, all those nations would, in part, would be afraid and attack, much like what happened later in the film.

(note that in the short story, there were many more spaceships--they condensed it to 12 to make it easier for viewers and likely production's budget ;) )

And that is why they gave us the "weapon" so we won't be "inferior" beings anymore. They wanted us to be their equals to increase the chance of solving their problem in 3000 years.

I was thinking the same thing too. Why on earth would they need the help of humanity three thousand years down the line. They'd have be so much more advanced it's crazy to think about.

Maybe if they said 50 or 100 years from now, it might be a bit more believable.

The help could come in any of a number of forms.
But more importantly... it is not impossible to believe that, with three thousands of years of scientific and social progress, that we could not be equal to, or even surpass, a culture that is currently far more advanced than ours.

As I see it, it doesn't matter why they need us or what for. The thing is that they ALREADY SAW that we will be helping them 3000 years in the future.