I’ve been a consumer of sci-fy over the years.... with that in mind.... imagine... it just may be that an invading civilization may be much like the one coming across our southern border now. Undereducated, suppressed by their government, looking for greater riches than what they are “allowed” in their current environment. Who’s to say that such “invaders” will be technologically superior? They may have access to tools and instruments created by others at their disposal (i.e., guns/weaponry), yet be the worker ants and not the creators of said technology. Just saying that the invaders may not be the brainiacs... perhaps the brainiacs slaves.
An interesting premise. Much like China and Russia using Iran and North Korea as proxies. Or to a lesser extent, the Russians using conscripts in their armies.
They may have access to tools and instruments created by others at their disposal (i.e., guns/weaponry), yet be the worker ants and not the creators of said technology.
Just saying that the invaders may not be the brainiacs... perhaps the brainiacs slaves.
I've made the same point on the thread. I asked another poster whether third world, or muslim countries were any more "advanced" because they've gained access to our modern technology.
Of course, they're not. They've been suddenly catapulted into the space age, artificially. Look at how they use our technology to advance their barbarian societies and agendas. Our visitors could be them, and not the good guys with Old Glory emblazoned on their ships.
If your thesis is correct, it would actually be worse for us. Think of it ...it would be akin to what is currently occuring off the coast of Somalia all the way to Yemen. In parts of South America, and parts of Thailand. In essence, piracy. The pirates are ill-educated (oft illiterate), quite dumb, linear thinkers ....yet with motorized boats, Kalashnikovs and RPGs they have turned places like the Somali town of Kismayu into El Dorados (literally ...as a fund manager I've been tracking the appreciation of real estate in Kenya, a small part being due to monies streaming in from Somalia ...since Nairobi Kenya is a developed city, while all of Somalia is a wasteland, thus piracy money streams to where it can be used).
On Aliens ....the speedboats would be spaceships, the kalashnikovs some new-fangled weapon, the RPGs some master-weapon. We would be a helpless cargo ship the size of a planet!
I remain convinced that the day aliens come to earth (if they exist, and mathematically speaking the odds of alien lifeforms existing is certain ....the question is advanced species, and according to one calculation there should be around 10,000 sufficiently advanced populations in the vastness of the universe) will be a day we wish never happened. Look outside your office window one day (as i am doing now) and look at the masses moving about below. To me they look like ants, and our buildings and skyscrapers like ant-hills and termite-mounds.
I wonder what you do to termites?
“District 9”, a great movie, addresses the very scenario you suggest. Chilling flick.
What I meant with those pictures is, this premise has been explored in the movie “District 9”.