[cuban leaf]

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.

[no-to-illegals]

I believe they are already here. They occupy the bodies of democrats ... cause as the democrats like to point out and have heard them say so numerous times ... ‘resistance is futile’

[cuban leaf]

100 years ago = 100 years from now.

[RedStateRocker]

There has never really been an instance of the society with worse technology NOT getting screwed.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Why wood aliens by necessity be highly advanced beyond human technology?

[cripplecreek]

Resistance will be utterly futile, if they are hostile.

If they come and kill us all immediately yes but the longer we survive the harder it becomes to eliminate us and the more formidable we become.

We're an incredibly intelligent and resourceful species. We're capable of thinking many centuries beyond or technical abilities. If an alien piece of tech were to fall into our hands, it may give us a thousand year leap in a direction the aliens aren't even capable of conceiving.

We know how to produce antimatter but don't know how to produce it in quantities needed to make it useful. We know what it takes to start and maintain a fusion reaction but we can't produce the pressures needed outside the core of a star. Finding the keys to those puzzles would advance us by a thousand years easily.

That said, I doubt that if there are intelligent aliens out there, they would have any interest in us. Aside from biological proteins, there's nothing on earth that can't be found in vast abundance all throughout the universe.

[Olog-hai]

A man from 2,000 years ago . . . like John the Apostle?