Worried about alien invasion..??

[chainsaw cat]

Vermicious Knids.

 

[xes]

Some people think that the Alien invasion will happen in a few years time,and they're going to be using us a foods (that is,of course,after their rougue prison planet passes us by and causes the world to stop spinning) Oh noes


I *heart* conspiracies.

 

[London_Calling]

Should we be worried..?? Or are we doing a good enough job of destroying the planet ourselves..

Historically speaking, on the basis of what advanced human societies do to less advanced human societies - especially in the context of empire - we should be very worried indeed if the aliens haven't got the measure of capitalism yet.

 

[Groucho]

Historically speaking, on the basis of what advanced human societies do to less advanced human societies - especially in the context of empire - we should be very worried indeed if the aliens haven't got the measure of capitalism yet.

Most aliens are the nice kind. Trouble is it is not the nice kind we need worry about is it? It is the Imperialist blood-sucking yellow nosed bastards the little green ones have been warning us about all these years we need to worry about.

 

[goldenecitrone]

We always assume that the aliens will be superior to us in intelligence. This is borne out of either humility or fear.

However, just imagine if they turned out to be a lot less intelligent than us, but just happened to have discovered a means of space travel by accident.

You mean like Intergalactic Jade Goodys and Peter Andres? I suppose we could find some use for them.

 

[Dhimmi]

I remember that documentary posing as an arcade game.

"Space Invaders", I think it was called.

That wasn't a documentary it was a cunning device designed to calculate the earthlings ability to defend themselves against an alien invasion and transmit the results back to them.

 

[Gromit]

Interstella contact has been made with aliens. I've done it.

Alltogether they asked me :

A/S/G (Age, Sex, Galaxy),
r u hawt,
what are u wearing right now?

Then i put em on ignore. i fucking hate randy teenage aliens.

 

[spacemonkey]

Single female lawyyyyyer, havin' lots of sex.

 

[Gromit]

Single female lawyyyyyer, havin' lots of sex.

I was so tempted to quote Futerama but thought that people either wouldn't get it or think i was a geek.

p.s. you geek

 

[Jorum]

Being boringly realistic about things, faster than light travel is very probably almost certainly impossible, so organising any sort of interstellar way would be a vastly pointless exercise.

If ignoring the above and assuming super speedy star trek spaceships it's probably unlikely an alien species would want to invade anyway.
Any species capable of practical interstellar travel has access to effectively unlimited resources, so has no problems with energy, food, raw materials or living space.
Most wars are fundamentaly either greed, fear, self-protection, built up hatred and grudges, or combination of these.
None of these would apply to any alien contact.

The only reasons to wipe us out or take over would be some kind of xenophobic religious ideology, or just a massively sadistic idea of fun.

Given the probably low chances of two or more intelligent species existing at overlapping times in universal history, and being anywhere even remotely near each other, they'd probably be happy to find us and have a chat.

 

[RhymnRzn]

some of the key word combinations:

-open firmament of heaven

-bottomless pit

-tabernacles between the seas

-great sheet knit at the four corners

-iron mixed with miry clay