Nick Pope: 'hostile aliens could wipe us out'

[UM-Bot]

The former MoD UFO investigator has warned that we would stand no chance whatsoever against hostile extraterrestrials.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/355218/nick-pope-hostile-aliens-could-wipe-us-out

[Dreamer screamer]

We stand no chance against ourselves to worry about hostile aliens.

[Abramelin]

40 minutes ago, UM-Bot said:

The former MoD UFO investigator has warned that we would stand no chance whatsoever against hostile extraterrestrials.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/355218/nick-pope-hostile-aliens-could-wipe-us-out

Narrator (Morgan Freeman, "War of the Worlds") :

"From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth."

[Duke Wellington]

47 minutes ago, UM-Bot said:

The former MoD UFO investigator has warned that we would stand no chance whatsoever against hostile extraterrestrials.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/355218/nick-pope-hostile-aliens-could-wipe-us-out

My plan upon facing an alien invasion is complete surrender!

I will make the effort to excel at butt kissing and worship my new masters, and you should all be warned I will throw you under the bus to save my own **** lol.

All hail our great, our superb, our utterly magnificent alien overlords!

Edited February 6, 2022 by Cookie Monster

[godnodog]

Thank God for the Pope always speaks the truth.

 

No poop Sherlock

[Davros of Skaro]

If any intelligence that has the capability to come here has no need for anything we have aside from studying our culture (if so inclined).

[OpenMindedSceptic]

IF they are hostile, then yes they would probably wipe us out. Not a forgone conclusion though as the variables would be huge.

But they are probably not going to be hostile. Most humans aren't hostile. Beings tend to avoid confrontation until they get elected as leaders for some reason.

[Orphalesion]

2 hours ago, Davros of Skaro said:

If any intelligence that has the capability to come here has no need for anything we have aside from studying our culture (if so inclined).

^ Exactly! Once a civilization has the power to travel between star systems, then there is no possible resource they can't get much easier from uninhabited planets or asteroids.
Well, except fossil fuels, but you'd think they'd come up with a better energy source at that point in their technological development.

[SHaYap]

The only reason for intergalactic aliens to come is to shoot humans for fun... 

~

[quiXilver]

According to the cannibal cultures of Papua New Guinnea, humans taste like pork.

They called human hunts... Hunting the Long Pork.

[jethrofloyd]

10 minutes ago, quiXilver said:

They called human hunts... Hunting the Long Pork.

Our superhero Bacon Man will protect us.

 

[bison]

Let's try to estimate the danger we might face from extraterrestrial invasion. The surest, most solid piece of information we have is the apparent fact that Earth has not been invaded and occupied, up until now.

Now, you might say-- they could be on their way, and could arrive at any moment. But the possibility of alien invasion has already been put to the test for an extremely long period of time.

Consider-- Our solar system is relatively young, the astronomers tell us, compared to the galaxy in which we reside. The median age of  planets like Earth, ones that might harbor life, intelligence and civilizations, is calculated to be about a billion years older than our home.  

That's a thousand times a million years for them to develop interstellar travel, swoop in and take over, before we even appeared on the scene. Even a single civilization, somewhere in the galaxy, could take it over entirely in far less time than that. They could do so, even traveling at well below the speed of light.

We could say that intelligent life arises so rarely that we are essentially alone in space, hence no invasion. Humans have often though that their place in the scheme of things was special, even unique. They have been proven wrong, every time they've thought this.

This and that country were thought by its own inhabitants to be at the center of a flat, plate-like Earth. Wrong.  Later, Earth was deemed to lie at the center of entire starry universe; even our Sun circled it. Wrong. Still later, when we began to understand that we exist in a huge cloud of stars, our galaxy, we thought that we were at its center, and it was the only such collection of stars. Wrong.

Saying that we are unique, as a civilization, in all of space seems just as misguided a notion, and just as likely to be wrong. This belief appears to be based on a lack of sufficient knowledge about what exists out there, just as all those earlier sureties were.

If we live in a civilized, thoroughly occupied galaxy, why do we not see this, why do we superficially appear alone? It might be that naive civilizations, like ours, are largely avoided, until such time as we begin to have the ability to affect the rest of the galaxy. We're on the very edge of such abilities. Several of our space probes will continue on out into the greater galaxy, escaping the pull of the Sun entirely.

Perhaps it's not so remarkable, then, that we might now begin to see hints of the existence of other civilizations in our galaxy.   

 

[Hawken]

If aliens revealed themselves. People would panic and hoard toilet paper.

[Duke Wellington]

1 hour ago, bison said:

Let's try to estimate the danger we might face from extraterrestrial invasion. The surest, most solid piece of information we have is the apparent fact that Earth has not been invaded and occupied, up until now.

Now, you might say-- they could be on their way, and could arrive at any moment. But the possibility of alien invasion has already been put to the test for an extremely long period of time.

Consider-- Our solar system is relatively young, the astronomers tell us, compared to the galaxy in which we reside. The median age of  planets like Earth, ones that might harbor life, intelligence and civilizations, is calculated to be about a billion years older than our home.  

That's a thousand times a million years for them to develop interstellar travel, swoop in and take over, before we even appeared on the scene. Even a single civilization, somewhere in the galaxy, could take it over entirely in far less time than that. They could do so, even traveling at well below the speed of light.

We could say that intelligent life arises so rarely that we are essentially alone in space, hence no invasion. Humans have often though that their place in the scheme of things was special, even unique. They have been proven wrong, every time they've thought this.

This and that country were thought by its own inhabitants to be at the center of a flat, plate-like Earth. Wrong.  Later, Earth was deemed to lie at the center of entire starry universe; even our Sun circled it. Wrong. Still later, when we began to understand that we exist in a huge cloud of stars, our galaxy, we thought that we were at its center, and it was the only such collection of stars. Wrong.

Saying that we are unique, as a civilization, in all of space seems just as misguided a notion, and just as likely to be wrong. This belief appears to be based on a lack of sufficient knowledge about what exists out there, just as all those earlier sureties were.

If we live in a civilized, thoroughly occupied galaxy, why do we not see this, why do we superficially appear alone? It might be that naive civilizations, like ours, are largely avoided, until such time as we begin to have the ability to affect the rest of the galaxy. We're on the very edge of such abilities. Several of our space probes will continue on out into the greater galaxy, escaping the pull of the Sun entirely.

Perhaps it's not so remarkable, then, that we might now begin to see hints of the existence of other civilizations in our galaxy.   

 

An alternative is they spot civilizations, let them develop, then turn up to milk them for their technology.

Specifically taking what they never thought of.

[acute]

['Walt' E. Kurtz]

I hope it's not Vogons attacking us 

[Jon the frog]

A carbon based life-form would take big risk coming to earth for ressources, way better to harvest a sterile rock in space than risking some unknown bacteria strains. Hostile alien would be more a case of removing vermin that can cause problems later.

[Barryh1986]

2 hours ago, bison said:

Let's try to estimate the danger we might face from extraterrestrial invasion. The surest, most solid piece of information we have is the apparent fact that Earth has not been invaded and occupied, up until now.

Now, you might say-- they could be on their way, and could arrive at any moment. But the possibility of alien invasion has already been put to the test for an extremely long period of time.

Consider-- Our solar system is relatively young, the astronomers tell us, compared to the galaxy in which we reside. The median age of  planets like Earth, ones that might harbor life, intelligence and civilizations, is calculated to be about a billion years older than our home.  

That's a thousand times a million years for them to develop interstellar travel, swoop in and take over, before we even appeared on the scene. Even a single civilization, somewhere in the galaxy, could take it over entirely in far less time than that. They could do so, even traveling at well below the speed of light.

We could say that intelligent life arises so rarely that we are essentially alone in space, hence no invasion. Humans have often though that their place in the scheme of things was special, even unique. They have been proven wrong, every time they've thought this.

This and that country were thought by its own inhabitants to be at the center of a flat, plate-like Earth. Wrong.  Later, Earth was deemed to lie at the center of entire starry universe; even our Sun circled it. Wrong. Still later, when we began to understand that we exist in a huge cloud of stars, our galaxy, we thought that we were at its center, and it was the only such collection of stars. Wrong.

Saying that we are unique, as a civilization, in all of space seems just as misguided a notion, and just as likely to be wrong. This belief appears to be based on a lack of sufficient knowledge about what exists out there, just as all those earlier sureties were.

If we live in a civilized, thoroughly occupied galaxy, why do we not see this, why do we superficially appear alone? It might be that naive civilizations, like ours, are largely avoided, until such time as we begin to have the ability to affect the rest of the galaxy. We're on the very edge of such abilities. Several of our space probes will continue on out into the greater galaxy, escaping the pull of the Sun entirely.

Perhaps it's not so remarkable, then, that we might now begin to see hints of the existence of other civilizations in our galaxy.   

 

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[the13bats]

9 hours ago, Cookie Monster said:

My plan upon facing an alien invasion is complete surrender!

I will make the effort to excel at butt kissing and worship my new masters, and you should all be warned I will throw you under the bus to save my own **** lol.

All hail our great, our superb, our utterly magnificent alien overlords!

Cool, you will be gang probed day and night 24 7...they need at least one like you.

And btw,

Imnsho nick pope is a hack.

[Duke Wellington]

6 minutes ago, the13bats said:

Cool, you will be gang probed day and night 24 7...they need at least one like you.

And btw,

Imnsho nick pope is a hack.

On second thoughts we must resist at all costs!

Let them go and probe someone else`s black hole out there in the universe.

[the13bats]

1 minute ago, Cookie Monster said:

On second thoughts we must resist at all costs!

Let them go and probe someone else`s black hole out there in the universe.

I think we should send trump and rudi to chat them up perhaps trumps frick and frack sons too.

[NCC1701]

The universe belongs to everyone. We as human species have no right to claim the earth for ourselves.

[Earl.Of.Trumps]

I do think about why this planet had not been taken over by refugee ET's long ago. My opinion:

The humans here have been around for 0.25 million years (a blink of the eye), whereas, some ET's (may) have been in existence for 10+ billion years.
Now, as the ancient people's planets became unlivable, they moved to other planets to survive. These planets were *likely* not occupied by intelligent beings.

So it seems that the ratio of fertile/free planets to refugee populations is very high. It would seem. 

 

 

[Alchopwn]

Illegal aliens do not pose an existential threat to the Earth, regardless of how hostile they become.

[Horta]

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Nick Pope: 'hostile aliens could wipe us out'

Sure could, nothing illogical with that as a statement.

However, first they would need to actually exist, then have knowledge that we exist, then have the tech to get here and inclination to wipe us out.

So when you expand on this basic premise, it be comes less likely, to say the least. lol