Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. “Mankind.” That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom… Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: “We will not go quietly into the night!” We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
I mean, even if alien sightings were real you would expect them to correlate with population density. Fewer people means fewer people that can spot aliens.
You tend to get less reports of things in areas with much, much lower population densities. The map is as much a population density map as it is a UFO sighting one
I’d like to add that for many countries like mine, a UFO sighting wouldn’t even register as “unidentified” or having an outer space origin. The locals would attribute it to something religious instead.
Not surprising at all. There are enough nukes to destroy more than the 1 planet all the nukes are on. Of course this is going to raise concern in the intergalactic community especially with how backwards our politics are.
They probably see Earth the same way the rest of the world sees North Korea.
“Aliens from outer space” sighted frequently over areas of the world where fictional media depicting aliens from outer space is widespread. Hmm. Shocker.
The even harder problem that doesn’t appear to have any physics to support it is carrying around whatever structure you’re proposing and making sure that it doesn’t destroy the ship or itself while you do so.
We don’t have to imagine force fields or any other MCU-tech, what if you had a way to disable all those weapons before they could even be launched at you? Or even in flight?
EMP exist now, and humans can shoot missiles out of the air - it’s perfectly imaginable that Aliens could think about our explosion delivery systems as being slow and vulnerable as fuck.
There was lots of stories about aliens doing exactly this when I was interested in the topic a decade ago or something. I don’t know how much of that is possible to find on today’s web since it’s all censored and removed now.
Alien tech is much more advanced than what we have here. But I think it’s clear that they are not like humans in the way that they build weapons and measure their status that way. They won’t use technology against us unless they absolutely have to, in self defense.
The upside to that is that humans could and probably would just sneak nukes onboard their ships and set them off on the inside if they did try to invade, a tactic for which they’d have no real defense.
Any civilization that had those things, even rudimentary Trinity Test ones, are on a whole different playing field than any that came before by virtue of the nature of nukes, so it is reasonable that aliens would investigate nuclear powers first.
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