Alien invasion?!

Yes, Yes. What I meant was knowledge was cumulative, but the pace of knowledge increases with time. Major technological advancements come much faster than they used to. For example look at transportation. For almost all of human history we have used our feet or animals. Then we went to steam to internal combustion to nuclear power in under two hundred years.

If we live through the first wave, we would probably be fine because (probably) it would take them a while to find out that they lost on their homeworld. Then they would have to reeassemble and take off again which would take them hundreds of years becuase the didstance is so vast. We also would be more ready for them. And if they took off hundreds or thousands of years ago to attack Earth our capabilites would have inproved massively, so they might not be ready. Safe to say there isn't gonna be anything like Halo though.

what if they have technology that allows them to communicate instantly through space, from anywhere, everything is just a call away, even if you are billions of light years away.

and remember this thread started from the stargate thread... what if they have something like a stargate that allows them almost instant travel billions of light years. so if we beat them now, the next day the second wave arrives. or some other technology we haven't even dreamed about that allow them to get to earth instantly from their planets.

and don't forget... they could just bombard us from high orbit, and we can't do anything about it. it will be like the entire US military invading an elementary school.

well if we can stay alive for a while we will learn... eventually. we can always try and strap on arms onto satiliites and give them something to care about.

I think that their superiority in technology will be established just by them being able to reach our planet. It has been scientifically established that there is no known source of energy/fuel that is capable of propelling a manned spaceship to any real kind of distance in space fast enough to accomplish anything. The distances are so vast, that it is a (big) stretch for us to reach even the closest terrestrial planets. This means that this alien race is not from our system of planets, than it would have to have obtained some sort of lightspreed/worm hole type technology that isn't really even explainable by me, or science for that matter. And if these aliens posessed this kind of advanced technology than I'm afraid they would be way(WAY) ahead of us. We wouldn't stand a chance no matter what the movie Independance Day will lead you to believe, against a force who's numbers are unestimatable, and who's power could and probably would be infinate.

I sure hope that if the day comes, that they "will come in peace."

This is where I come in, for you see recently its been theorized that there is way we could fold the fabric of space to allow ships to travel in a difference dimension where the laws of physics either dont exist or apply different and by turning of fthe field return to normal space time in a position far far away. The link is around somewhere.

I'ld say that FTL travel for humanity is 100 years away at most.

I think I stand with PiSigma

I admire your optimisem but if we get simply active in the Solar System by the end of this centuary I think we will be doing very well. Going further, in any useful sense is centuries away maybe another thousand years.

Any Aliens that come in an organised Invasion will be so far advanced that any notion of reverse Engineering is just fantasy. We would probably be unable to identity anything that we could isolate and label technology period, let alone even define its function.

Future Technology will become indistinguishable from magic

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Which is exactly how we would perceive what we were up against.

BTW how do you think the USA would react if evil Aliens landed in Washington and emerged looking like Jesus Christ and Angels? Or in Mecca looking like the Prophets?

Think about it.

Which begs a disturbing question are our beliefs just aliens visiting thousands of years ago? Some good some bad?

The reason why we COULD reverse engineer is an assumption that they are operating on the same understanding (well a better understanding) of the laws of physics.

But, let me ask a question, why would an alien race 1000 years ahead attack us? When they could just as easily colonize some uninhabited planet.

renmin said:

Aleins, well from my prospective they exist.... Laugh all you want but I have seen a UFO in real life before, too bad my cell phone wasnt on so I couldnt have taken a picture. It was saucer shaped with the back slightly longer than the front and was silver. It was moving slowy, slower than a helicopter actually, When I turned away for 1 second and looked back, it was GONE! Freaky! Anyways, we really have no idea how advanced Alein tech could be, but from what I saw, that saucer must of had high acceleration to get away that quickly.

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Aliens ARE real. There is no doubt, it would be incredibly unlikely, with all of the billions of stars with bilions of solar systems and trillions of planets that NONE are of earth-type status and that none of those planets are incapable of holding life is even more of a shot in the dark than to sugest that aliens do not exist, which may seem a bit odd, but it is just improbable, if not impossible, to sugest such things.

As for Humanity being doomed? Well, that depends. Space travel by definition does not necesarily mean advanced technology. Its possible that through some process of suspended animation or extreme longentivity that an alien fleet roaming around the universe could come along to Earth. More than likely, however. If an alien race as the technological capacity to travel to earth than they more than certantly would have advanced technologies. It might look like magic, it might look like a fleet of living creatures, or it might even be an energy storm.

As for that, how does one DEFINE what an alien invasion would be? What if aliens invaded by way of intergalactic telepathy? Connnecting to and manipulating the minds of the masses from thousands of miles away without anyone even knowing it? A rash of insanity in a small town turns into mass homicidal rage through an entire country, then they wipe each other out. What if the beings were bassed in electricity, or some sort of other energy? (Plasma based or nuclear bassed?) They could destroy electrical grids looking like power surges or grid failures. Living Asteroids with the intelegence of a Rhino seeing earth in the way? What if it was a fleet of automated ships that escaped their masters going haywire throughout the universe? Or what if it was a massive gas cloud? Or nanotech swarms? Or a sentient surge of planet destroying energy? The possibilities are endless.

I have a feeling that if we were ever invaded by an extraterestrial force, they probably would not even bother trying to look like Jesus or a prophet.

It might just look like an exceptionaly cloudy day....

EDIT: Meant thousands of LIGHTYEARS away...I know we arent talking about illegal aliens here.

Did you guys hear about the British Hacker who hacked into the US military computer system a couple of months ago...
Apparantly he was trying to find info on UFO in the US military database

What, that Gary McKinnon guy? wow, he did liek 700,000 worth of damage. Did he get put away?

i think he also disabled a naval station for a week after 9/11