Posted on 07/04/2019 10:51:38 PM PDT by robowombat
Turtledove creates aliens whose society advances very slowly. They have near light speed ships but their weaponry is equal to early 21st Century weapons. So could a relatively small sized invasion force armed like the forces in Iraq 2 defeat an entire world armed with the weapons of 1943. But you are right. The series was a good read.
LOL!
I’m thinking this will happen post Gog-Magog. Russia won’t have to worry about it.
There is no way that any self respecting alien would come to this obscure planet in this obscure solar system in this remote galaxy when there are innumerable others to choose from. Just sayin.
I’m not from Missouri but show me anyway...
The perfect ET (we are in fact observing an alien invasion) would be ET’s beating sword into plowshares, enslaving the world to manually farm, and mine. Taking earths natural resources back to its home world, including water and air. The population would die off eventually but not before extensive species research through the employment of anal probes and spinal taps...
There, I think I covered most dystopic ET Invasion scripts written.
Bump for later.
Well once in a while even a Blind Squirrel finds a nut 🥜
So just get out the Dark Glasses and Yer Tapping Stick and BLEND IN ...
Looking more every day like the Great deception will involve some form of ‘alien’s did it (excuse) ... the world must unite under one strong leader’.
If an alien race is that advanced that they could handle neutron start stuff, they would have no need to destroy humans in such a careless fashion, they would just create a virus to wipe us all mammals leaving non-mammalian life forms in tact. The alternative would be to create an artificial dna implant which renders humans passive in the main, tuned to a specific electromagnetic wavelength controlled by the ‘aliens’ ... and that is what the Bible predicts in so many words when the antichrist comes to power.
Or they could just be pretending
to be friendly and ambivalent.
This could be true of any aliens, not just the space kind.
You may be right and wrong. Lol. This solar system may be very important when you consider history of the galaxy the past million years. How would we know otherwise ?
Trust but verify. A great motto from a great man. If the aliens were evil, we would all be dead. So verification may have been completed.
If that advanced, one missile from outside the solar system can be sent, with a virus to kill all targeted life. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Hollywood and the CIA have got it all wrong. No landing craft needed. Heck they could just lob asteroids at us from the belt too.
A very advanced alien species would be building their own stars snd solar systems. For them, only one thing here would have value. And of course the average hairless ape sees no value in that thing.
I heard a rumor, that a certain religion out there, is preparing for a close encounter of the 3rd kind. Truly amazing isnt it?
Ack ACK ACK!!!
This is part of the Dark Forest theory - a corollary to the Fermi proposition about aliens.
All races hide but when discovering a new competitor the attack must be from a long distance - light years or close to it so the attack cannot be traced back and sure kill. No one would want to get as close as you suggest, lest they be discovered. Its fire and forget, then scoot away.
The best attack would launch a seed which on entering the solar system, ‘blossom’, transforming the entire system from a 3-D object to a 2-D or 1-D object.
Aliens would not care about some local religion or what some book said was supposed to happen. Aliens would see neutron star density stuff as child’s play.
If an alien race is advanced enough to overcome relativity, they have the means to end human life on Earth anytime they choose. There is no reason to destroy a perfectly useful planet such as Earth to get rid of the ‘plague of humankind’. Satan has wanted to destroy a portion of humanity for longer than I could surmise, and God has not allowed it. There is a transformative moment coming which will change everything, albeit ‘aliens’ might be an excuse for the ones not snatched away.
Sorry you do not understand the Dark Forest Theory. Perhaps a bit of searching would help - it has nothing to do with your religious beliefs.
LOL!
Is the Goblin Fire involved?
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