We don't know what other secret weapons or teams we may have. If there is such a program like Stargate then we may have big alien weapons to destroy them, or our own spaceships
What is inside Area 51? Human-Alien technology? We do not know what the governments are hiding
We may have ancient weaponary that we dont know about found from atlantis, etc, or whether they may rise and help defend Earth (unlikely).
Or we could, if we knew we where losing anyway, plant the biggest nukes underground and blow the Earth up. If we cant have it, they can't.
Besides they may just send a big ray thing and vapourise us all (yey!)
Or they may be really stupid

I know this is all far fetched but not impossible.

If i remember correctly, military technology of late advanced 10 years for 1 year of Civilian technology...That easily puts military technology at over 50 - 100 years ontop of what we see.
Black Projects.

Sure these may put down a small line of defences.

With our current common knowledge technologies, Earth in its entirety could easily be overwhelmed in a matter of days - Militarily.

However, if a alien race of hostility, if they used Ground Troops, would encounter mass amounts of rioting people - This would be a extremely ugly but likely scene.

If the beings were hostile, they need not wait for a good time- The longer the wait the more technologies we may gain for defence / offence purposes - unless they had a reason to wait...for a long time..Population growth / Reinforcements - Many possible reasons.

If the beings were friendly, And wished to contact this half primative race - They would need both a good timeline and events to go in a way inwhich mass panic would not ensue - There will be panic in any case- This is almost unstoppable...

I voted Yes but also, that's depends on our level of technology against the Alien advanced technology...

I will say our chances for winning the alien invasion-war is almost zero, JMO.

*Digging "fox hole" is the solution*

I don't think so... what are we going to do against something that is far more advanced than us? shoot our toy guns and rockets against a super plasma beam?

But then again it depends how advanced they are too...

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I/we do nothing. Start digging "Fox hole". JMO.

Depends on how prepared the attacking aliens are. Who says they aren't at our technological level?

If they are at our technological level, they couldn't get here in the first place.

Maybe...there will be no alien invasion... as I'd heard that they/Alien humanoids are amongst us now, on our planet earth..to "win" over the supposed "alien invasion/interference" is to put human race
totally in their control...as earth's natural resources etc.. are too valuable to them/aliens...they wouldn't risk it or would they?

If Aliens were going to attack no amount of military build up would help.

Aliens could likely wipe us out before we knew they were here, from a far.

I don't think there is a way to prepare for such a thing.

Who says they aren't at our technological level, or even lower, in weapons development? Civilizations don't always follow the same technological paths at the same relative speed. Maybe, if the aliens are all lovey-dovey as certain people think, they've never even started picking up clubs yet.

I always wonder what would happen if they turned up totally peacefully and said or something to that effect.

How could you answer anything but 'DON'T KNOW'?

There are way too many variables to even try and consider it.

But we did kick their *** in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, INDEPENDANCE DAY, and V.....that counts for something, doesn't it?

Thats the attitude ! Just pour salt water on them and Poof ! there all gone!,

waiting for sweetpumper,tee-minus and counting.

I voted "not prepared" But I don't think Alien invasion is something that we have to be concerned about.


Why would they want to invade if they don't even have any interest in weaponry?

I wonder if people actually employ any thought before asking these questions.

The Earth is not under attack from aliens.
Thus, it's all rather moot.

Further, since we have no idea about any aliens, not one jot of knowledge about them, one has to question, what attack are we to be prepapred for?
By whom?
With What?

Perhaps even, "why?".


How would we be prepared for an attack from a completely unknown entity, and why would we be prepared?

Hypothetically speaking. But if they have the technology to make an interstellar voyage, we're pretty doomed. All we could do is watch while they nudge an asteroid into the right orbit.

Or just let the worlds powers keep building all the automatic hand guns we can build ,and keep handing them to all our children.As they watch video games

Hello, interesting thread, finally convinced me to register and post.

I must say some of the "facts" stated by some posters are utterly naive.

An alien civilization is exactly that, alien. In all probability it they would be like nothing we could ever imagine or conceive. I think the only reaction we could muster as a planet would be utter terror, right before we started freaking out and started pressing buttons and squeezing triggers.

I've seen many people ask "Why would they attack us?" "They'll come in peace!" What makes you think any alien civilization thinks, acts, reasons or does anything even remotely similar to ourselves? We are only the way we are because this has helped us survive in this world. An alien species that has evolved on a completely different world with a different atmosphere and survival obstacles to overcome will behave in a totally different manner to us. They might not even be able to comprehend morality or compassion.

It's quite possible (stolen from Sphere by Michael Chrichton), that an alien species could breathe in oxygen and exhale cyanide gas. So even if they were peacefull that would cause major problems for any sort of personal contact.

If for whatever reason they wanted to attack us I'm not sure what kind of fight we could put up. Their weaponry would be alien (no sound maybe, or no visual indicators, or both - they just target you and you die) Their tactics would be alien. Everything they do would be totally and utterly unknown and bewildering to us. Personally I don't think there would be very many of us left at the end of the battle.

On the other hand they could two foot tall furballs with crossbows and catapults on their spaceships.

Who knows.

We got to space didn't we? Can't we go wherever? The only thing really stopping us right now is that the travel time to other planets is so long, we'd run out of fuel and/or die of old age before we reach them. What if they live longer than us naturally and have refueling stations set up?

They think their squirt guns are top of the line crowd suppressing tools?

Why would we be doomed?

If they have the technology to make an interstellar voyage, what about that spells doom for those who don't?
I don't see a correlation.

What if,it wasn't even an Alien life form?...? http://www.matthnelson.com/ufo_threat_hoax.html

If an invasion did occur, hypothetically speaking.
The public would be no where being prepared properly for the event, IMO. That is not to say the goverment wouldn't be more prepared for it, and in terms of a war, im sure it has crossed the goverments and intelligence agencies mind, that it's very possible an invasion could occur, should what people are seeing as ufo's turn out to be craft with beings that are of unknown origin and malevolent intent flying them. So IMO, i would have thought they may have or are currently developing a weapon or weapons that are very advanced and that may be useful and effective on extraterrestrials.
They may know information about what can harm et's and what weapons would be effective against them, through requiring crashed craft and finding out what makes them fly and what has a negative effect on them, also experimenting on the EBE's themselves.

That is if you believe the stories that involve these claims.

Just a few thoughts on the subject.

Yes lets say, we have made some experiments on aircraft and body's, and we have developed some type of weapon that can actually do harm. Don't you think they would know it by know? If they were planning on attacking us, they would probably do some serious Recon on the planet, and if they lost some aircraft, they would know we had them, and possibly correct the weaknesses?


And to The One Who is:
I bet you if an Alien race came here, they would have the means to protect them self. Even tough they maybe dont have weapons that are much more advanced than ours, dont you thin they wold have some sort of other technology that would make up for that? (Shielding, Cloaking etc. )

If they were at our current technological level, they wouldn't be visiting us, would they? As at our current level we cannot travel vast distances in space, so far that we can visit others, so i think that rules out that they are either below or on par with our technological levels.

And this means as well IMO, that if they have developed the technology to travel vast distances in spaces, they have most likely developed advance weponary as well.
The two go hand in hand really, it would be rather funny if they had mastered interstelar travel, but couldn't get a decent weapon together.

I think this video perfectly illustrates that they do have advanced weaponry ... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hUkFwfN-Qj4&...feature=related

perhaps they have never required weapons? on balance it seems just as likely that they could have extremely advanced defensive technology and limited offensive capabilities.

Usually (using humans as the only example I have) defensive technologies are born after the weapons themselves have been created. For example the bullet proof vest wasn't invented until after firearms were. Weapon and defensive technologies go hand in hand, it would be difficult to protect yourself from a weapon that you haven't thought of yet. Some of their defensive capabilities could come from natural phenomena for example nuclear weapons may be ineffective against their ships for it is likely they have substantial radiation shielding from traveling in space. They could also have strong hulls to deal with impacts from space debris and micro meteors and such. That however isn't a specific defense against nuclear weapons. Whatever weapons they may have it is likely they would have a reasonable defense against them as well but any other defensive capabilities would be the result of protecting themselves from naturally occurring dangers. JMO.

m-a-j-o-r- LOL.

I would say it depends what we are up against but if it was a small chance of survival it would be either:

1.Luck.

2.They get bored and want to go home.

3. They have some defect on our planet and they die off like War of the Worlds.

Is there any way we could fool the aliens into thinking that donkeys are the most dominant species on the planet?

yeah but it would have involved re-electing george dubya.