posted on Jul, 27 2015 @ 04:28 PM
a reply to:
data5091
Yes, like Prof. Stephen Hawking said, "It will be a bad day for human kind to meet an advanced alien race". I used to pay a game that dealt with space
and conquering planets. Some were opulent in resources, some not so much. But, as your technology advanced and you expanded out into the universe, you
needed much more resources to keep your battle fleets going and people on the myriad of planets fed or they may revolt. After a few months it hit me
that it would probably be the same way any large space faring civilization would have to be. You would need resources, and have to conquer more and
more planets to keep your civilization strong or you might perish. If a sufficient expeditionary force of a civilization encountered Earth, there
wouln't be much we could do about it. Of course, if they let you live and carry on as you were and only required certain regional territory and
resources from planets and asteroid belts we would not be bothered by them as they are not focused on a single planet but entire regions of space or
galaxies. Humans like to think we are all important and are to be dealt with, but that simply is not the case imho.
Now if we ran into a slave trading race of beings that use slaves to mine all kinds of planets, then we would have a problem. They would be quite
capable of subduing a race of peoples and controlling them to meet their ends. If you believe the stories surrounding the meeting with Truman and the
aliens at Holloman AFB we had another card in the deck that most people wouldn't consider. Supposedly, the aliens were going to give colonization
procedures. We said we wouldn't allow that and would use nuclear weapons. The question that pops in most peoples minds is whether we would be able to
hit their ships, or they could take our missiles out. That wasn't what we meant though. We would detonate all our weapons all over the world, killing
the biosphere and making the Earth a radioactive wasteland. The thought of doing that didn't even cross the minds of the aliens. To them it was
unthinkable for a being to do that to themselves. But, to a free being, death is better than enslavement and experimentation. It has worked well so
far. It makes you wonder if it is true with the interest in our nuclear weapons and bases their ships have been studying and testing.
I tend to agree with Prof. Hawking. A lot would depend on the nature of the civilization we encountered, their history, and our actions. We may bump
into a species and not realize they are allied like NATO with huge numbers of other species and their battle forces. We just do not have the in depth
knowledge to make proper decisions on the matter. But, we can follow them around as best we can and try to gather intel like we do on any other
potential enemy. Of course, I happen to believe they are all over the place and being advanced would much rather live in bases in mountains under the
ocean rather than on the dangerous surface conditions. Our atmosphere is fairly mild compared to other planets. Not to mention, you can stay at depths
to keep those pesky surface dwellers away. Over 50% of sightings are of USO's coming into or out of water. Anyway, that is just my humble opinion.
edit on 27/7/15 by spirit_horse because: typos