But if they can fold space, we’re screwed.
Nobody noticed me when I arrived.
My take: Trying to predict their technology and capabilities is like a man from 2000 years ago trying to predict ours.
Or a man today trying to predict our capabilities and technology 100 years ago.
If such an encounter with aliens happened, I believe it would be WORSE than Noah and his family vs the modern and latest US miliary. Much worse.
It always cracks me up in movies where space aliens fighting us don’t know where every single person on the planet is and what their defensive capabilities are. They will. Resistance will be utterly futile, if they are hostile.
It’s so obvious it hurts to think about it.
The universe itself can and does expand faster that the SOL without breaking Einstein’s law. Reasonable to think beings, at a million years ahead of us, a brainiac society, can’t manipulate the cosmos enough to speed across the galaxy instantly from point to point using wormholes or surfing via the alcubierri effect without physically approaching the SOL
If aliens wanted to catch us off guard, they can use one of the oldest tricks in the aerial combat book, known as the Dicta Boelcke. They can fly at us using the Sun as camouflage. A rather large portion of the sky is completely obscured by that glowing ball of fiery plasma.
There are so many ways for aliens to skin this cat it’s comical that anyone would think they would actually allow us to know they were there before they were good and ready for us to know, assuming they were hostile.
Space is big. We cannot see big rocks that swing by. I understand that the energy needed to slow down would be visible.
But perhaps their reconnoitering has them coming in from the far side of the sun.
I imagine they will be sneaky little bastards.
If they want to be greeted with open arms and get instant citizenship, all they have to do is telegraph 0bama that they will vote democrat.
“To Serve Man.”
It's not just a rule, it's the law. Congress should never have passed it.
186,282 miles per second is not just a good idea, it’s the law.
Why would anybody want to come here? :-)
Aint no such thing as ailens except the ones walking across our southern border.
There is no reason at all to think that a space drive, one that is capable of 0.1c, is a chemical rocket, or some other design that is emitting waste IR. We already have engines, for example, that use electrostatic acceleration of ions. We are a decade away from learning something about the dark matter and the dark energy. A drive that uses those would be entirely undetectable by us today.
Besides, you do not send a large ship toward an unknown planet that is radiating EM waves in every part of the spectrum. It is clearly a technological world, and even an advanced alien would stop and think. If we imagine a huge colony ship of some wandering, warring species who need a planet to land on and take over, the most reasonable actions of that ship would be to get onto an orbit around the Sun, somewhere between Mars and Jupiter, and use that as a base to regroup, to refuel, to repair the ship - and to send remote probes to other planets, including Earth.
The appearance of aliens as know them (greys) are mentioned in the Book of Revelation.
Rev 16:13
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
This is fun and all, but the reality is simple:
If (BIG if BTW) there are interstellar space-faring aliens, and they are hostile, we’re TOAST. Game over.
Think what one division of Marines with mechanized armor and helicopter gunships could have done in the Middle Ages. OK, any truly interstellar space-faring race is going to be WAY more advanced compared to us than those Marines would be compare to knights on horseback. WAY MORE.
So let me be the first to swear allegiance to our new alien overlords! /joke
Yup. But there is one theorized exception: space itself can "move" faster than the speed of light. So wrap yourself in a bubble of space and move that space faster than light. Yup, that's a warp drive.
There are actually real physicists working on this. And they have actually started to make a little tiny bit of progress.
Give 'em another 100 years, and we might get there. Sadly, though, I doubt we'll last that long. Why? Because as a species we're about to stink this place up so bad that God himself will have to step in to prevent us from exterminating ourselves. Oh yeah, and He also has made it clear what happens to this ball of dirt when the world turns on Israel, as is happening...
-PJ