QUOTE(odds022 @ Sep 5 2005, 11:36 AM)
Infiltration is a much smarter option for gaining control of something such as governments, armed forces, etc. The CIA are known for their infiltration techniques, and they prove that it does work, and is more efficiant.
Infiltration is a smarter option for getting information when you have a good idea of how a culture and people
work. Even amongst humans, spy networks take considerable time and effort to establish, and infiltration in a different human culture is very difficult for another human. Now imagine an alien, with no prior idea on how human cultures work, or even on how humans think, act, reproduce, eat, or defecate, attempting to infiltrate society to get information, or simply observe. It might be the only way to go, if their goals was simply to observe human society, but it would still be a nearly impossible task to do without getting noticed, and if all they wanted were a few human research subjects, an unnecessary one.
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You give the human race too much for capability to respond to any alien threat, especially since the human race is nowhere near united, particularly in the political area
I am certianly not saying we would win. In fact i think we would be completely dostroyed. But that been said, eventually the governments would use nukes and completely destroy us, the planet, and im sure at least some of them. Therefor, knowing the umpredictablility of a species like humans (as i am sure you will agree, we are) they would do the smart option, and go stealth. To do things slowly and less recognisably, is smart, showing it to be thought out and more advanced, than sitting in the skies saying we will kill you all. If there ship was destroyed, then so would they be.
Read my post above. If they realize how unpredictable humans are, how would going stealth improve their situation, or even work? Humans would be much less predictable on an individual or even town-sized them, than in dealing with a government.
Furthermore, I changed my post so that it was no longer just "give us humans or we will shoot you;" diplomacy for humans would be in order as well. Like I mentioned early, if they didn't mention that the humans would be used in experiments, they would probably get a million volunteers to go up and visit with them.
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not to mention getting your alien operatives down onto the world without some form of detection by one of the myriad radar nets of the world's military powers
UFO's are seen all the time in the skies, including landings. This doesnt mean they are extra-terrestrial in origin, but that is beside the point. The people that see these things (who speak out) get labelled as crazy and get ridiculled, even by friends and family. So i dont think it would be very hard at all.
And these things get picked up by military quite often too, there are many well known reports of this.
That still doesn't help the fact that the aliens would know next to nothing about how humans act, or human society works - the type of things you need to know to infiltrate. What would probably happen is that even if your alien somehow managed to disguise him/herself as a human, they would get grabbed by the police for doing something humans do not normally do, like going to the bathroom on someone's lawn, or wandering around in the street and getting hit by a car.
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aliens simply to ask for a few humans, or threaten for them
As i said above, the ramifications for this could easily be alot worse. If people found out that the governments of the world cooperated with aliens, and willfully gave them their citizens, there would be riots around the world, governments would be overthrown, and general upheaval on a global bases.. There goes society... So i dont think the governments would agree to that, knowing what would happen. Of coarse, thats not to say they wouldnt, this is just IMO.
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As I mentioned earlier, the above is not necessarily true. You would probably have many volunteers, and if the aliens simply wanted to get a bearing on how humans work, or what we are made of, they could simply offer to trade for some blood samples, or a few human carcasses.