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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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. -
aforandy — 12 years ago(October 13, 2013 02:06 PM)
I believe defence contingencies have considered an alien intelligence preparing an invasion of Earth by using a 'relativistic' weapon, for example a small block of armour plate travelling at near-light speed, which would be necessary to traverse the distance conventionally. After impact they wait a few decades for the dust to settle. Of course a comet at 17,000 mph would have a similar effect.
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MuggySphere — 11 years ago(May 18, 2014 07:38 PM)
What if they were on a similar level to us only they had other technology like hibernation machines to keep them alive over very long periods of time.
In Defiance the aliens build massive Arks with what look like freezing tubes to keep their population alive for a 5000 year trip to Earth. No FTL and that's how they did it. -
LittleMissDysthymia — 11 years ago(July 26, 2014 08:26 PM)
For aliens to even GET here requires a much higher level of technology than we currently possess And it's not just FTL, it's things like battery life, computer power, artificial gravity, radiation shielding, perfect water storage and recycling
If you want humans as aliens, go watch Avatar or that one episode of The Twilight Zone.
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