What If ...? Alien Invasion

[Martin]

I watched this show last night. It wasn't bad, but i fell asleep towards the end. It was past midnight i might add.

[Carol Nistri]

Originally Posted by dr wu23

IMO any sufficiently advanced alien race that's capable of interstellar travel would have solved both food and resource issues a long time ago probably on the lines of matter/energy replicators and use of zero point or hydrogen fusion energy which would be abundant all through the universe.
If they came here at all it would most likely be to seek out other intelligent lifeforms for non resource reasons.

Well thank you Dr.Spock,I think whats happening is they have found paradise and its occupied by 6 billion people and counting.I dont think there ever ever going to land on the White House lawn because should they be foolish enough to come in peace they would learn very quickly what our brand of friendship is.Id like to see what it is they eat,no,no then again I think not. Hasnt it been said that the nearest planet to us is some thirty years away give or take a decade. I like in the movie Aliens that people were put to sleep and everything slowed down.Then when they landed their eyes came open and off they went.

[lee934]

I recorded it and watched it today, why wasn't the programme called "If aliens attack"???

[Jurgen]

Originally Posted by lee934

I recorded it and watched it today, why wasn't the programme called "If aliens attack"???

Same feeling here but the name... why wasn't is called "Independence Day"? Still fun to watch though.

[dr wu23]

Originally Posted by Carol Nistri

Well thank you Dr.Spock,I think whats happening is they have found paradise and its occupied by 6 billion people and counting.I dont think there ever ever going to land on the White House lawn because should they be foolish enough to come in peace they would learn very quickly what our brand of friendship is.Id like to see what it is they eat,no,no then again I think not. Hasnt it been said that the nearest planet to us is some thirty years away give or take a decade. I like in the movie Aliens that people were put to sleep and everything slowed down.Then when they landed their eyes came open and off they went.

One man's paradise is another man's hell...or in this case alien hell.
But there is no reason to think they could eat or drink anything on earth (though if they are advanced they could probably convert it ) or even care about our flora and fauna.
If they have survived this long and can get here from there, wherever that is, they are probably far beyond the need for what we consider every day substenance. They would be far more likely to need 'energy sources' assuming they hadn't already solved that and imo they probably have.

[Carol Nistri]

You just discribed a robot,thats may very well be what they are,designed for space travel,no need to eat drink or sleep. I recorded this one,I really like the fact that the goverment has contingency plans for if it ever happens,of course guys lifting off to go into the spaceship via balloons is poetic for the ufologist.The part where the narrator says the reason for their being here is to rid the planet of chloform and that the trees were being used for fuel,that was a tad weak.But all in all it was an imaginative piece of course this guy has read War of the Worlds.

[orangekea]

Watched the show just a short while ago, Martin. Actually I liked it a lot, but it revealed more about the US military mindset, and about male thinking(?) than broad ET invasion contingency planning. This one narrowly focussed on an invasive species most resembling European Colonists exploiting the New World. And I laughed my head off at the suggestion that women ought to be continually pregnant, maximizing human numbers while toughing it out in the boonies . No thanks to that one....

I imagine for instance a slower type of invasion, over many millennia, where they gradually introduce their DNA into earthly, human gene pools, until without us realizing, they've become us over generations, and their greatest talent turns to politics, running for high office.


orangekea

[dr wu23]

I watched 'Skyline' last night.....not bad for a b level movie. The aliens were very well depicted by CGI but the story line was weak.