In reality!!! If this earth discovered another planet with life and attempted to go, what do you think we would do befor
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BigBadLarry — 14 years ago(June 16, 2011 12:05 AM)
Hmm, you could perhaps make a distinction between the techonologies they and we use.
With FTL of course they would be more advanced - we don't have it.
But who is saying that their weapon and armor technology is superior?
Maybe their weapons are based on different uses and facts of their world and thus is more effective against their own kind than us?
Or although they are to some extent violent etc. they don't comprehend violence as explicit as we do or don't have the creativity to develop the selfdestructive kind we can (nuclear weapons - destroy your enemy - dance in the Fallout).
You have the possibility that it is not a whole race that invades us but a little fraction - like some settlers thinking that they could just overrun some native americans really quick.
Then there is the chance that we adapt and use their technology to their dismay (throw away the bow - take the rifle).
Who knows - it could be that some of their own race (or another) just supply us with what we need because they want to make a quick buck, I am certain they will get whatever they want - if it is burgers, flowers or virgins, we don't care.
There are enough ways to tell the story different - I am just too sick of the indestructable foe (that at the end sucks out of sheer luck - same in this movie - you would think they would know their technology and just sort out an ORANGE BRAIN).
I catch myself to often telling myself "Yeah forget the story, they will win yadayada, yeah romance, last beep go onwhere is the last stand? Some explosions should come now - ah there they are. Yay. Oh we lost, something really new. Oh and now they start failing in all their omnipotence. Ah. Endcredits. Another SciFi waste." -
kitchenaut-1 — 14 years ago(June 16, 2011 01:58 PM)
Obviously they're more advanced, or they wouldn't be able to cross interstellar space. That ability necessitates command of colossal energies and extremely strong materials, so any nonsense about 'well they might have more advanced spaceflight but that doesn't mean their military is powerful' is wishful thinking that doesn't reflect how engineering and science grow. It suggests that each discipline develops in isolation, although Earth's space and military technologies evolved in parallel, so if you apply that to the level of interstellar travel, then by compariosn our weapons will be quite feeble.
Those people saying that these aliens are too advanced seriously need to read some hard sci-fi, or even moderately intelligent sci-fi shows, such as Babylon 5, where humanity finds just how far down the galactic food chain it is.
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BigBadLarry — 14 years ago(June 18, 2011 04:32 AM)
Oh beep another brainiac who thinks his view is everything.
So of course the aliens have to feel, think and develop like we do.
Ohhh how could I think differentwait there was some wordI think it was "alien"?
Nah that is just my imagination.
They HAVE TO EVOLVE just like us. Gnihihi. Yeah.
Not to forget that the weapon technologies alone in different countries of the world developed totally different (history too!), but what am I saying.
I bow down to your omnipotence.
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kitchenaut-1 — 14 years ago(January 25, 2012 08:38 AM)
A nice line in strawman and ad hominem fallacies you've drawn there, with a dose of petulant and infantile sarcasm thrown in..
Not to forget that the weapon technologies alone in different countries of the world developed totally different (history too!), but what am I saying.
Until you get to the application of physics in weaponary. They may use a different concept to describe e=mc^2 but mass-energy equivalence still holds for them as much as it does us, or they wouldn't function in this universe. Whether you use bamboo spears of mass-drivers, ballistics are ballistics, energy is energy, and evolution is moot - Physics is more fundamental than biology. The fact they can travel interstellar medium necessitates a far more advanced level of physics. Too bad you can't understand this through your sad attempt to belittle me.
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BigBadLarry — 14 years ago(March 20, 2012 01:48 AM)
Oh kitchenwannabe (better stay there) if I ram a knife in you physics will tell you that you can have a nuke and it will matter not while you squeal with your last breath "i haz nukes".
The fact that our little aliens are using impossible technologies from a physical point in nearly every movie is lost on your feeble mind that wouldn't even be used as a toilet dispenser in an alien ship.
English is not my mother language and I am very certain that your lower intellect isn't able to reproduce a "hello" in the two other languages I can speak. -
sad_antoine — 14 years ago(November 05, 2011 08:05 PM)
Another possibility - civilisations decline and fall, technologies are lost and rediscovered. We are still not entirely sure how the Egyptians built the Pyramids with the technology available at the time, or how the ancient Britons moved the blocks of Stonehenge 200 miles from the quarry science tells us they came from. I'm not saying aliens did it, I'm just pointing out our own civilisation lost that particular technology and arguably never rediscovered it.
It's already been established that even at light speed, it would take a substantial amount of time to get here from any but the closest star systems, so any alien civilisations reaching us realistically travelling significantly slower than light and a far greater distance would have been travelling for generations. Maybe hundreds of generations, maybe thousands.
Perhaps, like pyramids, their civilisation was once advanced enough to design and build faster than light starships and send them on their way, but the civilisation collapsed at some point during the journey. If they remember where they came from at all maybe it is just as a myth or a legend, with their data records corrupted and any written records being recorded in a 1000 year old language no-one understands any more.
Maybe you would have a fleet of starships arriving each one having evolved independently, so you end up having primitive aliens warring with each other, unaware they come from the same place, with the more advanced Earthlings watching on in bemusement? -
king_of_bob — 14 years ago(August 28, 2011 01:15 PM)
By sheer virtue of the fact that they can bridge the gap between stars. Something that we're still quite some way from.
Does it never occur that we could be those aliens in the future. Much like Columbus discovering America?
Say what?!?!
Any thoughts on humans being the genocidal aliens?
Go watch Starship Troopers
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clever-username — 14 years ago(August 31, 2011 07:52 AM)
Has anyone ever seen the old SNL skit where we get invaded by the alien equivalent of British Redcoats?
Might have been Belucci era or soon after.
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Beady-El — 14 years ago(September 14, 2011 10:20 AM)
A race capable of invading another planet is, by definition, more advanced than us.
Being invaded by our own future is an intriguing thought, but it's hard to imagine why future humans would want to exterminate earlier humans. If you want to wipe out your own species, why go into the past to do it? Just blow up the planet in the present -
alpha-tango — 14 years ago(September 22, 2011 08:15 PM)
they're always more advanced because they came from a planet or galaxy far far away. Outside of our milky way galaxy and solar system. Of course they have to be far more advanced to be able to reach Earth. When we get far more advanced, I'm sure we will start invading other planets. That hasn't really come yet, has it?
I really don't see what your question is all about. You wouldn't expect aliens to invade in little rickety boats and have spears and loin cloths, now would you? -
zender8584 — 14 years ago(September 23, 2011 10:16 AM)
The OP's question in the title doesn't reflect what he's posing in the actual post. He's asking, why is it always that we're the inferior race that's being invaded, rather than humans invading other planets. As answered quite well by several posts down the chain (about once every week or so), there are plenty of SciFi films where humans are the invaders, and aliens are primitive.
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alpha-tango — 14 years ago(September 26, 2011 07:01 PM)
that is the whole point - we are the inferior race/species because of the fact that these aliens coming from another galaxy altogether are the ones invading us. And one of the most obvious reason is that they have a higher degree of advanced technology, hence the reason for them to be able to come to earth and invade it.
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thomas998 — 13 years ago(July 03, 2012 01:39 PM)
IF we ever become technologically advanced enough for space travel we will be the genocidal aliens. It is what is destined to happen. Logically when you advance to the point of being several leaps beyond the other creatures around you, you will eventually view the other creatures as we currently view cows or horses we might enjoy them as pets or we might harvest them for food Same logic applies to any alien race capable of space travel, we as humans might be viewed as pets or might be viewed as cattle not sure what other options you might envision with an alien landing party on Earth, maybe they land and some cajuns with the munchies decide to cook'm and eat'm?
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hedonist — 13 years ago(January 13, 2013 02:42 AM)
We have a lot of these 'aliens invade earth' films with massive ships, impenetrable shields and death rays that incinerate everything in its path. Does it never occur that we could be those aliens in the future. Much like Columbus discovering America?
Many Native American civilizations were more 'advanced' than those found in Africa. Yet Africa was not colinised to the same extent.
As a previous poster mentioned, a large portion of the indigenous inhabitants were vulnerable to european disease.
And it was that rather than some thinly veiled bigoted assumption that they were slaughtered because of 'primitiveness', led to their decline in numbers.