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Originally posted by James1982
Originally posted by starwarsisreal
reply to post by James1982
I wonder how would alien forces fare when they land into the middle east and occupied Mecca?
Haha good point. Or they attack Afghanistan and it's forever know to aliens as "the place alien civilizations go to die"
There are really any number of reasons why they could be defeated. Once we get away from the idea that any and every attack possible would be a massive full scale campaign from a species millions of years advanced to us. Why does THAT have to be the situation? Again looking at human history, MOST battles are not that way. The
Look at WWII and the Thompson. It was an excellent weapon loved by servicemen, but few were used. You'd assume that in WWII every single soldier would have the best gun possible, but that's not how it happens.
Another situation is that perhaps they are trying to colonize earth and have a large portion of their population that doesn't agree with destroying other civilizations. So they are allowed to come here in order to colonize the planet under the condition they don't use too much force and upset the alien hippies. Once us humans start fighting back and get slapped down maybe public opinion turns and they abandon their campaign.
I can keep going if anyone still thinks it's a forgone conclusion every alien attack would be hopeless to defend against.
Originally posted by mymymy
I've always wondered why people assumed that just because a civilization has achieved FTL travel that they MUST have equally advanced weaponry. I don't see how they are mutually inclusive.
Maybe they put all their mind power into travel only and their weapons are as limited as ours. It seems we think they would behave exactly as we would
Originally posted by benrl
Originally posted by Cuervo
Originally posted by benrl
All they would need to do is push a large enough asteroid our way and its game over.
That takes math and some thrust.
Mass Effect had a mission like that where a bunch of aliens put some big ole thrusters on an asteroid to crash it into a planet. Alien terrorists... the worst, I tell ya.
Starship troopers did it first, but yeah mass effect as well.
Originally posted by markymint
Originally posted by benrl
Originally posted by Cuervo
Originally posted by benrl
All they would need to do is push a large enough asteroid our way and its game over.
That takes math and some thrust.
Mass Effect had a mission like that where a bunch of aliens put some big ole thrusters on an asteroid to crash it into a planet. Alien terrorists... the worst, I tell ya.
Starship troopers did it first, but yeah mass effect as well.
Haha, interestingly, Little Big Adventure 2 (Twinsen's Odyssey) did it a mere 2 months before Starship Troopers! But I'm sure it's been done long before 1997 too
Originally posted by RUFFREADY
I've posted this b4 but I'll say it again. We have a redundant weapon for such a "Invasion", nobody wins. The earth is lost.
This thing is manned 24/7. Believe it, or not.
reply to post by James1982
Countless times on ATS, and elsewhere, people repeat the same tired argument that if aliens wanted to invade Earth, we wouldn't be able to defend ourselves at all. I think this is silly statement, and I'll explain why.