What would you do in the event of Alien invasion?

[El_Machinae]

Am I the only one up for destroying the alien mothership?

I suspect that my AK-47 wouldn't reach.

Got a plan?

 

[Global Nexus]

Am I the only one up for destroying the alien mothership?

Assuming they even have a mothership, I'd love to know your plan for that.

Me? Depending on what happens after the initial invasion, I could be anything from a resistance member to a peaceful new citizen of the alien empire.

EDIT: Crap. I was going to save post #1000 for a super-NES story. Oh well. Post 1000! Yay!

 

[Marla_Singer]

Actually, the more I think about it and the less I see any reason for aliens to necessarily want to destroy us.

Let's imagine in the year 4582 AD humans find the way to travel at the speed of light (something considered as materially impossible but imagination don't care of rationality), do you actually think the first idea humans would have in finding a new extraterrestrial life would be to destroy it ?

Actually I'm sure the obsession would be to preserve it !

 

[El_Machinae]

One time an alien race would be tempted to destroy us was if our technological progress was greater than theirs. So, while we're currently weaker, they could predict a time we won't be. So they nuke us now.

 

[Marla_Singer]

One time an alien race would be tempted to destroy us was if our technological progress was greater than theirs. So, while we're currently weaker, they could predict a time we won't be. So they nuke us now.

That's the spontaneous idea on the question... however that point of view is widely the result of our fear of the unknown.

If aliens arrive on earth because that was their will to explore space, then why once they would finally find something interesting their first thought would be to destroy it ?

We always imagine aliens as some kind of collective machine obsessed by our destruction. A bit like commies at the time of Soviet Russia. Actually, it's only about a fear of the foreigner, of what is unknown. If such a fear exists, it's because something unknown is by definition unpredictable, and you always fear the worst of the unpredictable, especially when it's powerful. But rationally speaking, there's no reason to think so !

If they reach earth, they have strong chances to be more advanced and more experienced, that's why I consider as unlikely they would necessarily want our destruction for the only reason that we are different. Why aliens wouldn't be curious if they would travel accross space in motherships ?

 

[Red Door]

I would take an AK and shoot as many of them as I can before I die.

 

[bhsup]

Live free or die! It's not just a saying on New Hampshire's licence plates, it's the way to go. If we can't beat them, take as many as possible with them when we go and try to do it in a way that makes the world useless to them.

EDIT: Wait. I'd find the nearest Stargate, get a zero point module, and make contact with the benign Asgard, who would come and save us.

 

[Sahkuhnder]

Nobody has mentioned the easiest way? Just put on your spiffy Captain Kirk uniform and seduce the amazingly hot (yet somehow human-looking) female alien leader!

 

[Ramius75]

Nobody has mentioned the easiest way? Just put on your spiffy Captain Kirk uniform and seduce the amazingly hot (yet somehow human-looking) female alien leader!

somehow this looks like the syreen of Starcontrol. well, i dont mind getting snu snu to death.

 

[Sidhe]

That's the spontaneous idea on the question... however that point of view is widely the result of our fear of the unknown.

If aliens arrive on earth because that was their will to explore space, then why once they would finally find something interesting their first thought would be to destroy it ?

We always imagine aliens as some kind of collective machine obsessed by our destruction. A bit like commies at the time of Soviet Russia. Actually, it's only about a fear of the foreigner, of what is unknown. If such a fear exists, it's because something unknown is by definition unpredictable, and you always fear the worst of the unpredictable, especially when it's powerful. But rationally speaking, there's no reason to think so !

If they reach earth, they have strong chances to be more advanced and more experienced, that's why I consider as unlikely they would necessarily want our destruction for the only reason that we are different. Why aliens wouldn't be curious if they would travel accross space in motherships ?

Of course the premise is their nasty 8 eyed bugs/parasites squidlike brain eaters or whatever rather than the vaguely human Asgard or Vulcans or whatever.

But it's a past history thing mostly, when we discovered America we raped it into submission and then suplanted there culture and replaced it with our own, some people don't see that we'd treat a new planet any difference particularly if it had a lot of valuable stuff like oil or uranium or whatever. And by extension we consider aliens might be the same. Plus as history shows constant competition and strife accelerate technological development(look at Europe) so that tends us to voice the idea that races become advanced by conflict. Insert an amoral alien that seeks only to spread it's genes across the universe on as many worlds as it can infect if it helps.

There is a book I read by Stephen Donaldson about a race called the Amnion. There soul existence is devoted to adaption and maintenance of there DNA. They exist pretty much to promote the viability of their own genetic codes by any means necessary and to mutate anything that is not Amnion into a form that is Amnion(they're only morality is their own existence and they have no real emotional understanding, they know fear and pain, but little else of human emotion, impinges on them) The only reason there is not open war with humans is a mutually compatable exchange of resources and products, something that Amnion have to grow somewhat less eficiently rather than build, and the rumours of an antimutagen plus humans tend to go insane when changed to amnion and they can't understand why, so they live close to human space hoping that pirates and scum will sell them test subjects to perfect human amnion conversion in an uneasy peace. Think something like this, that's your Alien race. Or imense bug like things or reptiles or whatever.

 

[thetrooper]

What would you do in the event of Alien invasion?

Flirt with their females.

 

[A'AbarachAmadan]

Well, being in the military I suspect I'd already be dead, but if not I'd put my family in hiding and join the resistance.

 

[Sidhe]

Flirt with their females.

Your assuming they are hot babes what if they look more like the queen here?

Good luck with that

 

[thetrooper]

Bah, just Ridley Scott's imagination (battery acid instead of blood ). Mine is far better.

 

[Dann]

What would you do in the event of Alien invasion?

Nothing. Most likely die. The aliens are most probably here to blow up our star system because we're right in the path of that hyperspace bypass that they're building.

 

[Sidhe]

Bah, just Ridley Scott's imagination (battery acid instead of blood ). Mine is far better.

or this. Aliens are unlikely to look anything like us, they may be bipedal with arms but I seriously doubt there gonna rock our world

 

[Lambert Simnel]

Aliens ? I'd just set the zombies on 'em.

 

[Sidhe]

Aliens ? I'd just set the zombies on 'em.

that's a terrible idea then we'd have a load of zombie aliens running amock with the damn human zombies

 

[Marla_Singer]

Of course the premise is their nasty 8 eyed bugs/parasites squidlike brain eaters or whatever rather than the vaguely human Asgard or Vulcans or whatever.

Obviously you would trust better a Vulcan for the simple reason he looks more like yourself. It's always still the same fear of the unknown.

But it's a past history thing mostly, when we discovered America we raped it into submission and then suplanted there culture and replaced it with our own, some people don't see that we'd treat a new planet any difference particularly if it had a lot of valuable stuff like oil or uranium or whatever. And by extension we consider aliens might be the same. Plus as history shows constant competition and strife accelerate technological development(look at Europe) so that tends us to voice the idea that races become advanced by conflict. Insert an amoral alien that seeks only to spread it's genes across the universe on as many worlds as it can infect if it helps.

We can decently imagine that a civilization would have to be more advanced in order to take over planets than in order to cross a pond. With more experience, they'd know that the being brutal isn't the most interesting solution. Furthermore, I believe you're over-simplifying the conquest of the Americas.

There is a book I read by Stephen Donaldson about a race called the Amnion. There soul existence is devoted to adaption and maintenance of there DNA. They exist pretty much to promote the viability of their own genetic codes by any means necessary and to mutate anything that is not Amnion into a form that is Amnion(they're only morality is their own existence and they have no real emotional understanding, they know fear and pain, but little else of human emotion, impinges on them) The only reason there is not open war with humans is a mutually compatable exchange of resources and products, something that Amnion have to grow somewhat less eficiently rather than build, and the rumours of an antimutagen plus humans tend to go insane when changed to amnion and they can't understand why, so they live close to human space hoping that pirates and scum will sell them test subjects to perfect human amnion conversion in an uneasy peace. Think something like this, that's your Alien race. Or imense bug like things or reptiles or whatever.

Actually, I think there are probably a higher probability that those who would badly react would be us rather than them. Think about it. They know they are discovering a new world, they've made the trip. On the other side, we aren't prepared to discover them. They are more likely more advanced technologically speaking than us. As a consequence, there are a lot more chances than the most aggressive of both sides will be the most scared : us.

That's why I think aliens would like better to observe us from far during a long time before thinking of interacting with us. Only to be sure we wouldn't react in a crappy way. And when I see how everyone in this thread consider that the only thing to do in such a case is try to annihilate them, if I were them, I wouldn't consider that aggressive planet as being worth the ticket for a visit.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

that's a terrible idea then we'd have a load of zombie aliens running amock with the damn human zombies

Sorry, Sidhe, but that's quite a reactionary view. Zombie aliens, in their own way, are no different from you and me. Well, certainly not much different from Curt Sibling at least.

They need understanding, not condemnation. Have you ever sat down with one of these zombie aliens in your own front room, sharing a pot of tea, and tried to communicate with them, understand their wants, their needs, their desires ? I think you'd find it a lot easier to understand them, than, say, VRWCAgent.

Zombie Aliens Need Your Love.