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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Again making the assumption that they "think" like us. They could have zero concept of what fighting or weapons are. This is exactly why movies portray aliens as almost human. People could not grasp that they could be so radically different in appearance and action. It is simply human egocentricity that dictates the belief that since we developed as we did everything else did as well.
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conversely the assumption is made that they don't think like us. I'm just saying the possibility is there should those with the capability do something. hell for all we know a planet just like ours with people just like us fired off a probe a billion years ago and it's come wizzing by any day now. I think there is more out there we don't know than we do know by looking from the inside through a telescope.
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Originally Posted by babydriver
Again, extrapolating from what has occurred in the past, you might be right. Europeans in the post-Columbian colonization period (say, 1500-1900) tended to destroy any civilization with technically inferior weapons rather than show respect and understanding. With a highly advanced and non-empathetic alien civilization arriving with the intention of colonizing Earth, we would be swept before them like so much dust.
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indeed. hell they could be benevolent and wipe us out on accident with some alien virus that to them keeps their ears clean but is deadly to us. ie small pox to the injuins but not really.
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Originally Posted by Special_K
According to the documentaries Falling Skies, Battle LA, etc, even superior weaponry and the decimation of our infrastructure wouldn't stop us from kicking their asses.
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don't forget Signs. maybe aliens to which water is deadly will try and take over a planet that's over 70% water on foot without weapons poisoning us one by one with farts from their wrists.
