Revealed: Russia Unprepared to Deal With Space Alien Invasion – Official - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Dr McNinja;42455967]Definitely. But I just meant if they could communicate with us. Like we send signals out pretty far now I mean if they can do better and somehow create a conversation with us. Without physical contact we could still potentially figure out FTL or whatever space travel method together.[/QUOTE] Hopefully. Even though we are reducing the signals we put out into space (i know i read about this somewhere, trying to find), they have had about 100 years or so to hear us. Just hoping someone has been listening this time. Who knows, FTL (or at least FTL communications) would be amazing, but otherwise i suppose it's generation ships all the way We'll see i suppose. Would be nice to know we are not alone

Begging for mercy seems like the best course of action tbh.

Sure is a lot of assumption in this thread that any aliens that would come to mess with us would only be 100 or 200 years ahead of us technologically. You might as well be cavemen discussing how to hold off an invasion by the US Army. If there are aliens reasonably nearby (unlikely) and if they happen to exist within the same few million years as us (needle-in-a-haystack unlikely) it would be astronomically improbable that they would be roughly at our level of development. And that's 'roughly' as in plus or minus a thousand years. The most likely scenario is that we never find evidence of alien civilization at all. The unlikely possibility is that we find ruins of an ancient, long-dead race, or find primordial slime that might possibly in a few hundred million years produce life (let alone intelligent life). The won-the-lottery improbability is that we find aliens either millions of years ahead of us and totally beyond our comprehension, or cavemen. And the sheer impossibility is that we encounter life so close to ours that there can actually be a conflict that isn't a five minute stomping-the-natives so that all these Hollywood-fueled fantasies about resisting alien invasion can actually take place.

[QUOTE=snookypookums;42455119]They also seem particularly fond of destroying national monuments of other countries as if to make a point of saying " Aww, France, don't you be looking at me like that, I want to invade you all equally". You'd think most terrorist organizations and aliens would get along swimmingly given their common love of obliterating cliched national icons.[/QUOTE] Everyone in the UK has a secret explosive mounted in their neocortex so that if Big Ben falls to aliens, we all die together at the same instance, for all hope shall be lost as there will be no more bongs to count.

[QUOTE=Psychokitten;42451890]Keep in mind that the shockwave is only part of it; nuclear weapons give off stupid amounts of energy right when they're initiated. Granted you'd have to score a direct hit for it to work, but it should theoretically get hot enough to burn through a ship's hull regardless of what it's made of.[/QUOTE] Let's also not forget that a nuclear detonation is about as hot as the surface of the sun. If they can survive that then we'd be screwed.

[QUOTE=Psychokitten;42451890]Keep in mind that the shockwave is only part of it; nuclear weapons give off stupid amounts of energy right when they're initiated. Granted you'd have to score a direct hit for it to work, but it should theoretically get hot enough to burn through a ship's hull regardless of what it's made of.[/QUOTE] shooting down nuclear missiles in space would be stupidly easy for interstellar aliens

When you get visitors from half a galaxy away, you don't shoot at them. You offer them hospitality and apologize for the people that do.