If there is other life, and they are far more advanced, are we really prepared if we were invaded? I know that if they were advanced why would they feel the need to invade, but just hypathetically speaking if they were hostile?

Well the way i see it they are far more advanced than we are, there for they wouldnt have a hard time defeating us. If they posses the technology to travel lightyears then i think they would have the technology to counter our attacks. It would be as if we were fighting cavemen

Watch this 7 minute bit of video from Countdown to Doomsday - Alien Attack

Cracks me up how Seth Shostak says "...It's Bambi versus Godzilla .. and we're Bambi...." sort of funny but probably true.

The only possible defense we could have against them would be if there was something on earth that would make them sick and they had no cure for. Now that would be what I like to call a Alien-pwning disease, lol

I would go down on every alien.

Our Hidden weapon might be something so stupid its untrue, maybe Pollen or even certain Animal hair like, cats dogs or rabbit ect:...

Cinders good video,

we could make it a tie by making all our nuclear weapons explode!!

Spartans tonight we dine in hell...


nope we are not gonna dine cause HUMAN ET is working with us...when time will come they will all come out from the closet...

Thanks for proving to my mom that there was in fact an alien in the closet when I was younger

Funny, I just saw the 1970's version of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Scary movie. What if they do something like that? Replace us in small quantities, until they are in the majority and humans are left in scattered groups, not knowing who to trust. We would never know what hit us...

LOL...!

If I am not mistaken, and if I am, please correct me by all means... but isn't our government working on a so called "Star Wars" project? I know its rumor, but from what I have heard its a defense system to protect the earth from killer asteroids, and unwelcomed comets that might come in the path of earth? If I were the government, perhaps it would be smart to work on something to defend us against an advanced Alien race? Granted, there might already be one in place if we have been working with them all along? Some say that they've been helping us in technology already for years. I mean, how can we go from propellar airplanes to stealth in just under a decade? Our technology advances pretty fast, and gets very compact these days such as fiber optics etc; I mean, look... we are so close to perfecting cloning. We are creating fast and smart artificial intelligence. Where are we getting these ideas from? If we are so smart, how come we have not discovered the cure for most of the diseases that are out there by now? In my opinion I think some of the diseases were put out by our government on purpose to keep a certain population down in some areas. ( Hence Africa's health problems ) But you see where I am going with this right?

How would we know what weapons to build? Again, taking my Body Snatchers example, how exactly would any space defence program help us in that case? Why would they attack directly if they may have the capability to take us out without any fight at all?



Humans aren't stupid. Are you also suggesting that aliens helped us with the industrial revolution? Or how to make fire, the first wheel, swords? These have all developed by figuring out things, observing nature and experimenting. None if it is easy, but as we go, and thanks to what we've learned before, things naturally proceed faster. No longer have we any dogma towards science, and no longer are there any official "banned" scientific areas.



That isn't as easy as it sounds. A disease also evolves, such as AIDS, developing resistance. Cancer is hard to eliminate, as of now, because we have yet to develop a technique to detect what cells are affected. We must also develop techniques to remove tumours that are placed in difficult places, such as around the brain, heart, lungs etc. Hopefully, nanotechnology will help us in that respect.



Africa's health problems often depend on the state of things, such as poverty. People simply do not have enough money to buy medicine for even the simple fever, malaria can be prevented with mosquito nets, again, if they had the money to buy it. After all, disease can not cripple a state, and if it could, Africa would be off-limits to everyone.

I dont think we are prepared at all....what could we do anyways

Perhaps it would be wrong of us to resist. Some things are meant to happen. Earth certainly doesn't have a nice future in our hands

To simply put it we could do nothing and we would likely be dead within the blink of an eye. Why would aliens need to invade when it is much easier to destroy humanity at a far as opposed to sending armies etc.

If aliens thousands or millions of years ahead of us were hostile it is likely that they may have technologies that could perhaps knock our planet out of orbit or even open a small black hole that wold rip the atmosphere off the planet etc. Maybe direct a massive asteroid towards Earth or even the moon and so on.

I can say that it would not be like in the movies though as there are almost an endless amount of ways that they could wipe us out no problem. Point is even speculating about such a disaster is pointless and there would be no way we could defend ourselves as we are simply to primitive to even see it coming if it did.

All right, I'll admit. We gays are actually superior, trans-dimensional beings here to conquer and destroy. We wished to remain hidden and discrete, but we have been outed en masse by Graylady.
Guard your liquor and showtunes...

--Jaylemurph

Edit to include the proper conjunction.

Maybe they wouldn't attack....Hmmm maybe they will be all sexy male humanlike creatures who like to cook and do laundry

Hey... I cook and do my own laundry!?

We would. Not. Stand. A. Chance. If they were hostile.

None.

Maybe there is a galactic political agreement of sorts that prevents alien agendas for us. Like a United Nations of space thing.

...like some sort of United Federation of Planets? Just like in Star Trek?
It's time like this when we need to step back and realize how much fiction and the human desire to anthropomorphize /everything/ take its toll.

--Jaylemurph

Of course we are prepared. As a Norstralian all I have to say is, "remember mrs hubbard's little kittens"

Given the "innate" warlikeness of man kind: his division over many millenia into a series of competing nation states which has honed his military prepared ness, and his intrinsic curiousity, which has propelled his technolgy forward far more quickly than his ethics, philosphies or religious developments, i would say we are as ready as possible. Whether that will be ready enough, only time may tell.

Poor defenceless creatures. I am sure they would be completely at your mercy

Have any of you seen "When Mars Attacks"? OMG that is funny... hehe