So, I saw Scarey Movie 4 recently, and that prompted me to see "War of the Worlds" shortly after. I've read the book, and I've seen my share of "Alien Invasion apocalypses," but what if it were to actually happen?
If we as a species came under attack by a warmongering race of extra terrestrials bent on our destruction, would we be able to defend ourselves? Would our first defensive attacks be hindered by various government bureaucracies, would our technology save us? Would this be humanity's finest hour? Or would we, like in War of the Worlds, be doomed unless one of our own plagues(disease) reaches the enemy?
It's a strange thought.
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 Aug 26 2006, 7:18 am
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Aug 26 2006, 7:25 am
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DarkCampainger
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Meh, life is too short to worry about that kind of stuff.
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Yah. I thought this before too, but whatever. Aliens coming for us would be like awesome and scary at the same time. Its craziness.
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In my opinion, on the other planets that have life they probably wouldn’t be much more advanced than us. Unless all those other planets are full of super smart people, but even then they probably wouldn’t try to invade us. >.>
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Dude, the diseases didn't kill the aliens, the plain germs did.
Also, the government has stuff that nobody knows about. They'd shoot something outta the sky if they thought it would pose a threat. Also, Mars had single celled organisms, so germs wouldn't save our ass >_> | |
Even if we do find aliens someday, the first ones we find will probably be single celled organisms.
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"so germs wouldn't save our ass"
I don't know, the colonials took out a large portion of the Native Americans with foreign disease. Of course, this goes both ways. They could bring some creepy skin eating disease that is just an annoying rash to their species. | |
DarkCampainger said:
Meh, life is too short to worry about that kind of stuff. lol @ billion dollar movie industry centred around worrying about that kind of stuff Guy Ficher said: In my opinion, on the other planets that have life they probably wouldn’t be much more advanced than us. Your opinion is wrong because it's kinda unfounded. That said, everyone else's is too... there's probably a given time limit before any kind of self-replicating life-like stuff could have formed in the universe but from then on anything could form. It'd be easier to know if we were a fast-growing (fast-growing in the sense that, y'know, how far our technology has progressed in relation to some other alien race) intelligent lifeform or a slow one if we had more data on life forms other than ourselves. =S They could have anything. And when I say 'anything', I mean that half the time you couldn't even refer to the aliens as 'they' and 'have' because they wouldn't even work that way. | |
Elation has a point, though. Who is really to say what lies out there?
If (and there probably is) indeed other forms of civilized life out there, one of them has to be the most advanced. Perhaps humanity is first. Or maybie in fact we were created by an alien species(lol@xenu). | |
We would not be doomed. The Zeta rip newbs would turn SSJ12920948209540285023850892 and kill all of the aliens for us.
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They'll just shoot us with Antimatter and us go boom.
We really should look into making some kinda antimatter defence... Maybe they're made out of it, and when the two of our things touch, everything go boom. | |
Plain and simple. If aliens had the technology to travel all the way hear then there technology would be way more advance than ours we would have no chance. If our germs would affect them they would make vaccines for it. They would not let something that simple stop them. They would either come here to invade or make peace.
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BigBoiD, as soon as the antimatter left the gun it would go boom, blowing up the aliens as well. I think they would want us dead with as few of their own casualties as possible.
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Why can't they be peace-loving aliens who want to share their drugs with us? :(
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BigBoiD said:
Maybe they're made out of it, and when the two of our things touch, everything go boom. Armour that explodes on contact, genius. Phantasy said: They would either come here to invade or make peace. Or, wanting to study how life grows and evolves outside their own planet they would remain undetected (for want of not polluting our development with their own), studying us for mellenia. They walk the streets today, disguised as ordinary people. Yes, you guessed it- Mormons. | |
Also, Mars had single celled organisms, so germs wouldn't save our ass >_> No. There is absolutely no evidence for that. There was a meteorite a while back, but that was demonstrated to be something other then bacteria. It's unlikely that any bacteria survive on Mars today. It's quite possible that there were some in the past. Basically, if something comes out all this way, they will be far, FAR more advanced then us. The nearest star to our solar system is 4.3 light years away. That's MASSIVE. And it doesn't have any planets. Any alien species that does come here could have any number of temperaments, but 'conquer' is a likely one, methinks. However, herein lies the rub - is it actually possible to avoid the problems caused by the massive gaps between systems? I don't think it is. Not easily. Our basic laws of physics are unlikely to go through any massive shifts in the next few centuries - Nothing even as massive as relativity over Newton. No, the physics of the next few centuries is refinement, not revolution. And relativity is iron-clad. You cannot go faster then light. You can barely even get close. Wormholes are permitted by the rules, but they require massive quantities of negative energy. Negative energy may exist, but we have come up with no way of making more then minute quantities. And even then, the other end of the wormhole has to be manipulated to turn up where you want to go. I think Earth is safe from alien invasion for now. | |
No, the physics of the next few centuries is refinement, not revolution. How could you even ever say that? Something as revolutionary as relativity was fairly unexpected, right? I mean sure you could try and make an educated guess but trying to predict centuries in the future... especially since science and technological progression just continues to speed up and speed up. If you compared this century to one 500 years ago we've made thousands of years worth of inventions and discoveries in relation. Meh, I just don't buy it that you could predit how science will progress for the next 200 years. | |