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Kasz216 on 02 January 2013
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spaceguy said:
zero129 said:

Ok so lets say Aliens where to come and attack us tomorrow. After a long ass battle we lose they take us over and capture us.

Now to the question!. Would you be more happy to be their food or to be their pets?.

And no the is no 3rd option of running and fighting as in this case we have already done that and lost  .


If aliens have the tech to travel from light years away  they would squash us out in a day. Sometimes when people talk about aliens, I don't think they understand how much more advanced they will be then us.  They could be sitting right next to you and you wouldn't even sense there presence. Think about how much they would have to know to travel that far. We can't even get to mars. Our nearest star Alpha Centauri is 4 light years away. Meaning if you where traveling at the speed of light ( 186,000 miles per second or  670 616 629 miles / hour) you wouldn't make it there for 4 years. They would have to live very, very, very long or could have basically master there health and are pretty much immortal.  Or they could have  figured out how to bend time and space and use warp holes. These findings and the point that they have mastered space travel like this means they are on another level then us completely.

So they might genetically engineer us or who knows what but I suspect they might not even care about us at all. We would be so stupid to them, it's like you walking around and looking at every single ant on the ground.  Either way, what ever they wanted to do, you wouldn't have much choice in the matter.

Despite how much more advanced that it is in spacial technology doesn't nessisairly mean they will be much more advanced militarily or even medically.

Technological advances are VERY resource specific. Our perception of natural technological progression is biased on our own expierence.

 

A good example is gunpowder.  If a planet has no Potasium Nitrate... gunpowder may never show up.  (This can be seen to a lesser degree in how different technologies evolved at different paces in human history, which sometimes gets overlooked just based on the technological juggernaut europe is seen as by most.)

 

Or the dominate alien species might originate from a planet where most plants are toxic to them, so it's harder to discover medicines.

There planet might be covered in matierals PERFECT for space travel, and their lifespans and perception of time might be such that the time it takes to reach us is trivial.

Basically their might be alien race equivelent of ancient polynesians out there.

I'd guess they'd have pretty decent weapons if their plan was to invade though.   Generally though space aliens could really just orbitally bombard us with giant rocks until we surrendered if they really wanted to.

 

Like in Starship Troopers.