Alien invasion: Your reaction

[Saltyk]

Aliens are invading?

Well, considering that they would have the technology to travel the stars, locate, and make it to this little dirtball, I can say we're probably massively outgunned. Our only hope is that they underestimate the size of the force they would need to accomplish their goal, or sent Zim to prep our planet for invasion.

Then, just maybe we could beat them and reverse engineer their technology to make our own. With a new galactic threat to humanity and our survival, the world would have to unite under one banner or die. No longer would your religion, creed, or nation matter, for a fractured people will never stand up to a full scale invasion. This combined with the fact that they would likely need many years to discover their failure, prepare a new force and arrive, would probably facilitate our improved defense and possibly allow us to rebuild and be ready.

Then, the war truly begins. And we must take the fight to them! Who's with me?

Failing that... I'd probably die. Then again, odds are I would probably die even if we repelled the first wave.

 

[Alpha Maeko]

"Welcome to Earth."

*grabs cigar*

 

[scw55]

I'm not a violent man. But I am defensive.
I'd block myself in my house and kill anything that threatens my family.
There's a sickle in the shed I think.

 

[OctoH]

1. Arm up. Good thing Ive been stocking up.

2. Locate my girlfriend and family members.

3. Load go-bag and weapons into car.

4. Rescue girlfriend.

5. GTFO.

 

[Rylee Fox]

The invaders would be taken care of before any humans were even aware anything was wrong. No one would even know aliens had been around. Taking care of these things is my job. That's my reaction.

 

[Noetherian]

Assuming it happened during the work week, I'd feel an immediate sense of relief at the low odds of having to go into work again anytime soon...

Depending on how far along we were (and assuming my fairly-major-city locale hadn't been immediately and totally destroyed), I'd either hole up in my apartment or trek over to my friend's place to bunker down there. My primary concern after my own survival is that of my friends, so I'd probably work on consolidating forces/establishing whatever communication I could.

With luck, I'd be able to make contact with an isolated member of the invading forces, maybe one of the wounded or a stray scientist type who was unable or disinclined to kill me on sight. If these aliens have any interest in our species (and aren't, say, just here to wipe us out and harvest resources) I'm more than interested in helping talking to them.

As for how the world would react... I assume everyone would immediately start stealing expensive televisions, for as we all know that's the most important thing to do in a crisis.

 

[kickassfrog]

So, you wake up one morning and it turns out that a large alien fleet has arrived and is invading Earth. How do you think the world would react in its current state? More importantly, how would YOU react?

I'm here to answer any questions on the nature of the invasion, by the way.

Do they speak english? What are they after? Can I surrender to them? Will I be able to steal their technology? Do they have any concept of lying? What are their vulnerabilities?

1.No. They are essentially giant insects (About human height).
2.They want to get rid of humanity as it is a race that could present a problem in the future.
3. You can, but they'll probably just use you for experimentation or melt you down into your base proteins for their food reserves.
4. Probably not. It's controlled via neural uplink and wasn't designed for humans to use.
5. Well, they're a little tougher than humans, but everything that kills us should kill them eventually. However, they have a FAR higher tolerance for radiation.

What about lying? If I said to them "If you strike me down, I shall become far more powerful than you can possibly imagine", would they believe me?

I suppose I'd have no choice but to join the resistance.
Also, are they bipeds (essentially humanoid with a few insect traits) or proper six-legged freaks?

 

[kickassfrog]

Nah, the discovery channel broadcast an entire show detailing all our plans for dealing with various flavors of ET. Which is monumentally stupid, because if they detect the transmission, they'll have all our strategies.
(PS, the final strategy involved nuclear bombs and helium balloons)

what show? post a link! please! i need to know! i don't wanna die!
hahaha... please don't kill me

my views on the subject of aliens.

http://natgeotv.com/uk/alien-invasion

Your link, good sir.

 

[RESURRECTION21]

i would say "see if you played videogames like me you would know how to take care of this" as i shoot an alien in head

 

[Froggy Slayer]

What about lying? If I said to them "If you strike me down, I shall become far more powerful than you can possibly imagine", would they believe me?

I suppose I'd have no choice but to join the resistance.
Also, are they bipeds (essentially humanoid with a few insect traits) or proper six-legged freaks?

While they probably have a concept of lying, it's doubtful that you'd be able to communicate with then in any sort of meaningful manner.

Oh, and proper insect freaks, but each foot/hand can be used to grasp things.

 

[Aaron Foltz]

Plan A) Get buckets of water. (They're afraid of water right?)
Plan B) Learn the Close Encounters theme
Plan C) Get the guns, get the money, get the women (Oops wrong plan)
Plan D) Mech suit, gravity gun, innocent pigs, go buck wild

 

[Cookiegerard]

1) Contact everyone from my Secondary School. "Fuck y'all, I was right!"

2) Look up prayers to every god I can on the internet, I want to have covered all my bases for when, and I will, die.

 

[kickassfrog]

What about lying? If I said to them "If you strike me down, I shall become far more powerful than you can possibly imagine", would they believe me?

I suppose I'd have no choice but to join the resistance.
Also, are they bipeds (essentially humanoid with a few insect traits) or proper six-legged freaks?

While they probably have a concept of lying, it's doubtful that you'd be able to communicate with then in any sort of meaningful manner.

Oh, and proper insect freaks, but each foot/hand can be used to grasp things.

Groups of people, with melee weapons, ambushing isolated units and stealing their tech. Hopefully we can use their weapons. And they won't just nuke the crap out of us from orbit.

1) Contact everyone from my Secondary School. "Fuck y'all, I was right!"

2) Look up prayers to every god I can on the internet, I want to have covered all my bases for when, and I will, die.

And pray to the wazpz, you probably won't be able to find them.

 

[Old Father Eternity]

Given the scenario, bide my time, try to stay alive long enough to get some armaments
and let the other one at the back of my mind take over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQJoKXhx-HM
We'll teach them the ways of war
Make their yellow blood run cold
They won't come anymore

 

[Kellogs Fried Chickn]

Continue to look for intelligent life in the universe.

 

[Aaron Foltz]

1) Contact everyone from my Secondary School. "Fuck y'all, I was right!"

2) Look up prayers to every god I can on the internet, I want to have covered all my bases for when, and I will, die.

Not sure if you can fool the Gods by a simple searches on wiki BUT they would appreciate the effort. Better make a prayer to Talos just in case.

 

[kickassfrog]

1) Contact everyone from my Secondary School. "Fuck y'all, I was right!"

2) Look up prayers to every god I can on the internet, I want to have covered all my bases for when, and I will, die.

Not sure if you can fool the Gods by a simple searches on wiki BUT they would appreciate the effort. Better make a prayer to Talos just in case.

Talos? Pray to akatosh, because he's both a dragon, and the god of time.

 

[Robeltu]

If the technology was on a similar level, I think we would lose due to some people trying to take advantage of the situation. I personally would have no clue what to do and would use the event as an excuse to drink lots of rum and play lots of games, hopefully it would all be worked out peacefully

 

[snagli]

Well, I've seen a documentary about alien invasions like two hours ago, so I'll just do exactly what they do. Earth will not be able to go all out on these aliens and the main miltary will be defeated. Then, through guerilla warfare, we will be able to annoy the aliens long enough for them to realise Earth is a stupid place. Then we can scavenge the alien ships we managed to destroy and rebuild society. Obviously I will wait in my basement until that last part.

Captcha: be my friend? That tugged my heartstrings.