Maybe this does and maybe it doesn't belong here I don't know.
Anyway.

I saw the new War of the Worlds film today and an idea came into my head.
What would you do if it really happened

Strange I know but I just wanna know what you would do.

I'd get that 12 gauge double barrel shotgun from under my bed and lock and load.



BTW: I highly recomend this film for movie buffs or alien obsessed humans.

I watched that film recently too, i think its brilliant and i was just thinking about what if it actually happend, earlier today, i think its possible, but i dont have a clue what i would do in the situation, i guess it would be a spear of the moment thing for me.

I saw it too. I would run and hide somewhere. in a cave deep in a mountains and hope for the best.

I would go to the wild, they focused most of the attacks in the city, and wait for the microbes in the water to kill the aliens

Anyway I did not like the movie, a super power alien race kicked our asses, to die from a small microbe in the water. BS that was a cop out to me Spielberg did not know how to end the movie. Independence day was better.

[B][COLOR=blue] Me myself, I believe i would start trying to call or get in touch with all the family members i know and start dishing out the (I LOVE YOU"SA) then get my own family somewhere safe......And start kicking some Alien Booty.....

I loved the film but Super Pancake was right. Independence Day was better.
I was told that the aliens couldn't have handle all the germs that live in the water and food which is what killed them.

How long do you think they were under the ground until called? It couldn't have been that long, technology they had just wasn't created 1 million years ago.

The ending has to remain the same. Thats how the book ended, how the radio program ended, and the original movie ended. To change that would be suicide. It wasn't a cop out, he was just sticking to the original story line.

that movie sucked, it had nothing to do with the book they just followed that guy around.

P.S. where the hell do you get those avatar videos super-pancake? the guy with the nunchaku is hilarious, do you suppose he hit his head so hard he thought he landed on is feet?

But were talking about Steven Speilberg, I seriously thought they were going to remake the movie and change the ending, its just stupid, and plus I never regarded the originals as good sci-fi in the first place, except the radio broadcast version, which in my opinion was ingenious, how it was represented to the public.


Yeah my friend got it from somebody, I think he does hit his head then stumbles

The movie was AMAZING!

But one question, were the tripods running on human blood for fuel, that's the conclusion we made.

I agree 100%

I would arm myself and fight...

never saw the movie... heard it was crap though. I highly doubt that people are people though... too sneaky.

i did not see the movie, but if that were to happen, i would stick with my gang, and arm myself with all the 9mm and oozies i got

For those who have seen the movie, guns won't really help. The tripods have a protective forcefield around them. And Mr. Gangbanger thugster it is spelled "Uzi." You and "your gang" are going to have to be a little bit more clever than just shooting bullets...

Then you are truely an idiot, as a double barrel shotgun is going to do nothing against a two hundred foot alien tripod which fires lasers and is sorrounded by a force-feild, hmm?

I'd hide in the wreckage - They won't be coming back. But if I saw them coming for me and knew there was no escape, I'd kill myself.

LOL, Thats what I'm thinking Walken. Really all you can do is hide, and hope they aren't very effecient when looking through wreckage.

yeah right! you're one of them, i tell you where i'm hiding and you're knocking on my door the next day, with your death ray, or sucking up human machine.
no thanks buddy, nice try though.
and by the way, the movie sucked, this version anyway, i suggest you go to the movie thread for everybodies thoughts.

If aliens invaded, I would join the military and fight for Earth! If they were indestructable I would still fight and die for my world. Running and hiding is not going to save you, the only reasonable thing to do in that kind of situation would be to fight. Maybe we would get lucky and invading aliens wouldnt have shields. If that were the case Earth might actually stand a chance if every man, woman, and child able to hold a gun fought to the death. I would be on the front lines with an M-16 blowing ET's brains out.

They found out after looking at the footage of some lightning that the things werent underground to begin with, they were put there through the lightning in the storms

i would stay at home, wait for them and then try to catch a ride. and maybe steal their ship. Ha I'd like to c that happening.

i would stay at home, wait for them and then try to catch a ride. and maybe steal their ship. Ha I'd like to c that happening.

Iwould catch a ride to somewhere very remote and wild away from civilisation like some monastery somewhere in tibet.

Then cross my fingers...

Then cross my fingers...
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cross ur fingers for whut?

Winning the lotterey, Obviously

ha yeah like that'll ever happen. I would croos m,y fingers to if i HAD a chance!!!!!!lololololol

You wouldn't do anything but run. If you don't run for your own survival you will die. That's the entire point of it.

And that's my entire point . If i don't run i will surely die but if aliens were to kill humanity u will surely die to.

The very nature of our Earth (and in this part that movie may have a point) would make living conditions here difficult for 'alien' life, and would sooner or later destroy them. You run till they're dead and you stay alive.

I must admit, I do think that a species of alien intelligent enough to travel across the universe and blow us to peices, would have enough knowledge of microbiology to understand the dangers of walking around on an alien planet, and of carrying bacteria back with them...

so hold on whut r u saying? i don't get it.

I shall try and hide my surprise.

How much can they know? They have to test it first, but their very form may not be able to handle our atmosphere, let alone bacteria.

We are the only form of 'intelligent life' on the planet and we make mistakes everyday, why would they be any different? If we went to an 'alien planet' like say the current Mars experdition, we run the risk of danger just by being there.

You miss the point. Any matrial we back from space we take every care not to let it contaminate our atmosphere. If most of us are smart enough to release that, then these aliens should have as well.

Of course they have to test it first...and I am utterly amazed that they didn't. Instead the wandered around stark naked...no protective gear and, presumably, since an infection obviously occured, no decontamination of any kind either.



Since the very first space voyage, no man has ever gone into space, without both himself and his equipment undergoing stringent decontamination proceedures to make sure he hasn't brought any harmful organisms back with him. It's not a matter of learning the lesson, it's a matter of common sense.

Yes but you assume alien life is far more intelligent than we are. What if they aren't. You can't argue with that because 1. they haven't even been proven to exist, and 2. because of that, if they do, we know just next to nothing about them.

Having fast aircraft doesn't make them microbiology experts. Never assume.

Any individuals, human or otherwis, who can make space craft would have the intellegence to think about basic biology.

Ashley, at what point did this become a conversation about alien life in general, instead of the hypothetical alien life that has traveled across the universe to attack earth?

If a species is capable of long range space travel, it is safe to say their knowledge of science is far, far more advanced than our own. Certainly, they know the basics of microbiology.

I'm just giving the possibilities. On this story alone (being fictional), they obviously didn't know all that much about microbiology because that is what caused their demise. That is still, if it were even proven alien life exists, a possibility.

Having to travel so far, only so many tests can be made. What about the Gallileo project? They sent the probe into Jupiter and it exploded upon entry and that was quite recently.

Ever gone to Egypt?

Yes, but we only know that in hind-sight; Would you really want to live as prey to these creatures?

Hide in the wreckage and assume they won't come back. If they do, end it yourself. Remember, we don't KNOW at this point that the bacteria is harming them.

The possibility they they don't die and take over (should anything like that ever happen) is also there. In that case, I'd suggest suicide.

What's Egypt got to do with it? Egypt is on our own planet.

I don't know what it is - I don't have a fear of pain or an abnormal fear of death...More like a fear of defeat, even. But in that situation, were there no clear hope, I would indeed take my own life.

Yes, it is.

As you're obviously not aware, trips to exotic locations on the planet are not allowed unless the holiday maker first takes a few precautions...in short, immunising themselves against various diseases and viruses rampant in that part of the world, than they would not encounter back home. Egypt in particular is known to be very bad for this...the number of shots you had to take for a trip to the nile made it almost not worthwhile going.

And that's a trip of a few thousand miles...and it was based upon such logic that we realised "hey...you know what...let's not send people into space, and then throw them back into the mix afterwards without checking them out first."

If any species is out and about in the greater universe, then they will certainly have explored their own planet - and they will certainly have encountered the same problem. They would simply not, therefore, start wandering around an alien environment unprotected. Now...careful...think before replying.

I would probably first run and hide then come back out and fight them hoping that we would by some miracle find a way to beat them or hope that we can disable their shields so that at least we would have a fighting chance.

That's not even comparable. A trip to Egypt takes a one day plane flight, and test can be made on-site for considerable lengths of time. The same cannot be said for other planets.

Ashley, you're going to have to accept that you've lost this one...

The further they had to travel, the more likely they'd be to be cautious, not just say "oh, we don't have time for tests"...especially given the movie implied their invasion had been planned for millions upon millions of years (great planning...).

Quite frankly, they wouldn't need to conduct "tests"...they'd simply need to ensure they were iscolated from the outside world in order to prevent contamination. Certainly, they would not start wandering around in someone's basement, drinking the water.

As has been said, any civilisation with millions of years of advancement would 100% know advanved microbiology.

If you think theoretically that in all their millenia of exploring that they havent come accross one single infectious bacteria on another planet then frankly you are mad.

It was just a flaw with the original story, created in a time when sod-all was known about such things, if the story had been constructed nowadays it'd have been different.

I haven't seen the movie but I would most likely join the military if we were attacked by alien invaders. If the invaders proved invulnerable then I would be tempted to dessert and assist refugees.

For the microbe argument. It could have been some stupid soldiers disobeying orders. Human soldiers sometimes go against orders and get them selves killed in stupid ways, in action and out of action. The number of humans who have gone to space is quit small so we can make sure they are all checked. If a large scale invasion of an alien world was done by humans I'm quit certain a group of morons would land and have some fun against orders. In a fantasy or sci fi one most always use ones imagination and suspend ones disbelief.

She really hasn't.





You guys forget that in the time space of millions, perhaps even billions, of years, bacteria may have evolved a little. Now, when they first arrived they perhaps conducted these tests and immuned themselves to bacteria from, say, water. But a billion years later they don't realise the extent to which the bacteria has changed.