Alien Invasion: Are we ready? in Off Topic

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Aug 16 2011, 5:49 am

Poll: Well... are we ready?

Yes 16% (4)
No 41% (10)
Maybe 12% (3)
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Another awesome episode. Late on making a post about this because... I'm lazy? Anyways, this next Curiosity episode, hosted by Michelle Rodriguez, revolves around the question of "Are we ready for aliens, possibly hostile, to visit us?"

Really, it was interesting what they did. They went through the steps of a likely scenario. The aliens would likely be carbon-based organisms and they would be coming to Earth because it was similar to their own that was possibly in danger. Plus with the fact that they had the ability to travel between solar systems or maybe even galaxies would mean that they are a technologicly advanced race. And we are ants. First they would use a world-wide EMP. Then they would take out all coastal cities and such. And then launch biological weapons to finish humans off. And the only way we could fight is to use nukes to launch peices of metal into space or something?

Forgot the name, but it's basically putting a nuke half a kilo down into the ground, filling the hole with water, and placing a metal top of some kind. It weighed a few tons. When the nuke exploded, the water turned to steam which shot the metal top into the air. Scienist theorized that it would travel 6 times escape velocity, so that hundreds of these could possibly damage a mothership.

Oh. Another thing. Fossils found off a peice of rock from mars prove that some simple life (Bacteria and such) did live at one point or another on Mars. Meaning any planet in the habital zone of their stars in their solar system could have life. About 40 - 2,000 per galaxy. Billions of galaxies. You do the math.

So. What do you think? Could we survive an alien invasion? Is the alien invasion scenario in that Curiosity episode realistic?
#1 Aug 16 2011, 5:54 am
The aliens would likely be carbon-based organisms and they would be coming to Earth because it was similar to their own that was possibly in danger.

You mean like Superman?
#2 Aug 16 2011, 5:57 am
Yes, like superman. Except they would have different DNA from us... more realistic, I would say. That means they wouldn't be human. Maybe not even humanoid.
#3 Aug 16 2011, 7:11 am
its been 2011 years, if they wanted us they got us without us knowing
#4 Aug 16 2011, 7:44 am
Lies. It's been over 4,000 years since "Humans" as we know it first existed. Sure, Aliens could've visited before. Maybe they didn't. How can we be sure?

Plus, we weren't ruining our world before. It's only in the last 300 years that we hit a technological burst of intelligence. We were just puny ants before. Now we are puny ants with stingers.
#5 Aug 16 2011, 8:01 am
If they can create a spaceship which flies through space possibly at light-speed and can withstand impossible conditions, then a nuke is not going to even dent their armor. Take Independence Day, for example.

I personally like to play with the idea that there are aliens that have a sort of symbiotic relationship with us. When we see UFO sightings, they almost always demonstrate physics that break our own laws. Now, without bringing our questionable physics into question, this could suggest that such aliens come from another dimension.
#6 Aug 16 2011, 8:04 am
Not going to delve into the whole "Another dimensions" again and bring up the Source Code. Let's just stay with that the aliens are from the same universe, just a distant solar system or another nearby galaxy.
#7 Aug 16 2011, 8:16 am
Masterdarwin88 wrote:
Not going to delve into the whole "Another dimensions" again and bring up the Source Code. Let's just stay with that the aliens are from the same universe, just a distant solar system or another nearby galaxy.

If the universe is nearly as large as we think it is, then there's no chance that aliens with the intelligence and means to visit other planets have not checked us out yet. Not to be selfish, but planets like our own are pretty damn rare. Or maybe species like our own are the rarity.

And as for my own theory on aliens from another dimension, I personally think it's not completely valid because there are ways to bend space and defy physics by moving faster than the speed of light, whether it be wormholes or other forms of transportation fueled by negative energy.

It's like the idea that if traveling to the past was feasible, then people would have already visited us. But I personally like to think that if there was no time before the universe was created, then that suggests backwards time travel can not be done(At least to be used to travel to times before time travel was possible).

Of course, we know traveling into the future is perfectly feasible. I believe that the instant we have a method of traveling directly into the future, the world will end. This is because all the possible events that involve traveling back and forth into that single instant will happen at once, and the likeliness of something traveling backwards that could destroy the world will indeed travel backwards into that instant, the world will then be.. destroyed, lol


#8 Aug 16 2011, 8:25 am
Lol. Aliens > Time Travel. The next Curiosity episode is "Why is Sex fun?" and I'll probably wait until the one afterwards to make a post.


But, back on topic, I'd like to think that it won't happen anytime soon. It's just a realistic depiction of if hostiles found us NOW.
#9 Aug 16 2011, 8:31 am
Masterdarwin88 wrote:
But, back on topic, I'd like to think that it won't happen anytime soon. It's just a realistic depiction of if hostiles found us NOW.

We would all die quick, painless deaths. Think Iji: We'd essentially be "Alpha Striked" before we even knew what was going on.

If they have the technology to travel through space between solar systems/galaxies, then they have the means to protect their ship against impossible conditions. If that's what goes into their vehicles, then can you bet your bottom dollar that their military is invincible against our technology too. And if they had this technology, and were looking to colonize our planet, the first step of course is to wipe out the indigenous species, which most easily is done by striking the entire surface of the planet with some kind of super-weapon in one big attack. No chance that they would waste their time bringing down their military if they are that intelligent.
#10 Aug 16 2011, 10:03 am
But they need the biosphere. The fresh water, unique vegitation, dense atmosphere. That would be ruined by any "super weapon" attack.
#11 Aug 16 2011, 10:31 am
Omg, aliens are going to visit us for cookies because their cookies were eaten by me. :O
#12 Aug 16 2011, 12:47 pm
I see what you meant by the tops and shooting them at the mothership, but that much radiation would ruin/destroy our planet. Not good =/

I believe aliens have visited before. Just look at the pyramids o.o
#13 Aug 16 2011, 12:49 pm
Yusuke13 wrote:
I believe aliens have visited before. Just look at the pyramids o.o

When people make decent things, they are accused of fraud.
#14 Aug 16 2011, 12:51 pm
It would be 'very' difficult for us even today to build those pyramids, drag the giant stones from whence they came and stack them accordingly, fill them with shit in 20 years. Even with the technology we have today.
#15 Aug 16 2011, 1:28 pm
It's true. It wouldn't take almost a century like some of those pyramids, but it would still be hard.
#16 Aug 16 2011, 7:24 pm
Where's the red thumb? I want to thumb this down for thumb-whoring on the Cow RP forums.
#17 Aug 16 2011, 7:30 pm
Nay button next to the "Members say:" thing right under the topic. Next to the number of comments and such.


And I wasn't thumb-whoreing.
#18 Aug 16 2011, 9:02 pm
i doubt we'd be ready for any attack, because we wouldn't know what to expect. if any "intelligent" life form would even so much as know of our existence from so far away, much less attack us, they'd have to have been observing us for quite some time to be so confident in their invasion.