what would we really do if we faced an alien invasion?

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for some reason i just started wondering about it.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 29 July 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

surrender

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 July 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

Die, probably.

― Aramyr, Friday, 29 July 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

Aramyr otm!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 29 July 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

I wish "Close Encounters" were like 1 minute longer, so that they would have shewn the part where Richard Dreyfuss got injected with 1,000,000,000 gas-borne nanoprobes and swole up to the size of a manatee. And the aliens excreted foam, which was their laughter.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

>I wish "Close Encounters" were like 1 minute longer, so that they would have shewn the part where Richard Dreyfuss got injected with 1,000,000,000 gas-borne nanoprobes and swole up to the size of a manatee. And the aliens excreted foam, which was their laughter.<

I've been drinking, but even without the booze, this would be amazing. So I'm stealing it for some profile somewhere. Maybe Myspace.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

i wonder what will smith and tommy lee jones would really do

― gem (trisk), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

Why would they want to bother with us though? We're a bunch of cackling buffoons who seem to be doing a pretty good job of destroying this place without any help from outsiders. I say let them take Alpha Centauri.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

i, for one, welcome our new foam-laughing overlords.

― latebloomer: You may order a puppet similar to this one (latebloomer), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

I'll be in my Caddy, heading north out of L.A. at 120 per

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

I'd probably be vaporized somewhere around Palmdale, though.

― gear (gear), Friday, 29 July 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

DUCK AND COVER!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

Don't be silly. They will all be vanquished by the common cold. I've got a nasty sore throat going that could take out the entire invasion fleet.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

I was in the bookies the other day and I asked for a special on the chances of anything coming from Mars, 1,000,000 to 1 they said.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 29 July 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

but still

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 29 July 2005 08:02 (twenty years ago)

Lube up I suppose

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 29 July 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

I understand that the thread title is to be used for tomorrow's thinkpiece in the Daily Express, to be written by TV's Carol Vorderman (probably).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

I for one welcome our alien ant overlords.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 29 July 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)

There will be much reference to invading aliens "sponeging" off us.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/images/avatars/gallery/Futurama2/farnsworth_happy.gif

"The last time aliens invaeded, they forced the most intelligent of us to pair off, and mate continuously! Oh my yes..."

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 July 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Ah, to be young again. And also a robot.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 29 July 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

they will be vanquished by crouching behind a jeep and some hooky-looking CSO

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 29 July 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

Stand there pointing at them with slack jaw.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 29 July 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure the aleins would leave after they noticed things like taht pepsi commercial where puffy is thought to drive a pepsi truck. They would be like "augh - they're idiots here. Let's just go."

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

Although if they decide to take all the oxygen or water we might be in trouble.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Serious question: do the ICBMS of the world support targeting modes where the detonation is outside the atmosphere? I know they all support elevation, etc. I would wager we might have support for atmospheric detonation as thermonuclear explosions in space over a region can be used as an EMP weapon and this surely was part of the strategy for a total nuclear war between the USA and UUSR.

1) First strike weapons from subs and then silos aimed at strategic weapons of opponent in attempt to cripple them. Bombers already in air.
2) More ICBMS, etc.
3) EMPs to hit enemy air defenses before bombers come in with the city busters, etc.
4) Bombers with huge megaton weapons.

― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Friday, 29 July 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I would be overjoyed.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 29 July 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

challenge them to an old school dance-off

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

or squirt them with water. they hate that.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Don't be silly. They will all be vanquished by the common cold.

Or not.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/050722.html

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Defenses are already in place. Simply because the threat is not publicized does not mean it is not well understood or that it remains unaddressed.

http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/03/02/05/moon.jpg

― TOMBOT, Friday, 29 July 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't know whether to be reassured or even more frightened.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

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