Aliens Have Conquered Earth

[Thaluikhain]

Few hundreds years is still industrial age, it'll take mankind back thousands of years. Humanity wouldn't have seen a single worst disaster since the Bubonic Plague, and the earth will not have seen such a catastrophe in all of human history.

I disagree that it will send humanity back thousands of years, but yes, worse disaster in history.

It's little solace that "humanity will survive" considering how hard we worked to get where we are, it will almost all be undone.

Well, depends on your point of view. It's a disaster, yes, but total extinction is much worse, IMHO

Well that's pointless relativism as total extinction is THE WORST outcome.

"You shouldn't be upset you lost your legs in a wood chipper, at least all off of humanity hasn't gone extinct"

And there are worse things than death, if the people who carry on humanity are sick sadistic psychopaths in a world of near endless suffering, it's a poor choice between that and death.

But such a state of affairs isn't likely to last that long. People argue about the starting point of history/civilisation, but around 13,000 years ago isn't a bad guess.

A few more centuries of barbarism is terrible, yes, but compared to 13,000 years, and however long humanity has to look forwards to after that, it's not that big. If mankind dies out, it has died out forever.

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Though, that's getting rather academic and philosophical.

 

[samaugsch]

Why isn't 'attack the aliens with the nukes' an option?

I've actually watched a documentary about it. Said something about their ships being impervious to nuclear strikes due to traveling through space or something.

 

[Reiper]

Do you guys remember that Keanu Reeves movie "the day the earth stood still"?

So the consensus seems to be they probably wouldn't want our resources. Though what if they have come to "save" the planet from us by killing us.

As they are exterminating us, would you destroy the planet's ecosystems with nukes then?

I would. To show that although we may have been beaten, their efforts were in vain, and that destroying us was pointless. It would be a massively symbolic middle finger to these douchebag aliens, to show them that if we can't have earth, noone can.

 

[Don Savik]

Depends on the alien. If its a hivemind army of purely living organisms then I would. Otherwise.....probably not. I like living thank you very much.

And would nuking them really stop reinforcements from coming? I doubt they would attack a planet with their ENTIRE SPECIES. I for one accept our new alien overlords.

 

[Treblaine]

Few hundreds years is still industrial age, it'll take mankind back thousands of years. Humanity wouldn't have seen a single worst disaster since the Bubonic Plague, and the earth will not have seen such a catastrophe in all of human history.

I disagree that it will send humanity back thousands of years, but yes, worse disaster in history.

It's little solace that "humanity will survive" considering how hard we worked to get where we are, it will almost all be undone.

Well, depends on your point of view. It's a disaster, yes, but total extinction is much worse, IMHO

Well that's pointless relativism as total extinction is THE WORST outcome.

"You shouldn't be upset you lost your legs in a wood chipper, at least all off of humanity hasn't gone extinct"

And there are worse things than death, if the people who carry on humanity are sick sadistic psychopaths in a world of near endless suffering, it's a poor choice between that and death.

But such a state of affairs isn't likely to last that long. People argue about the starting point of history/civilisation, but around 13,000 years ago isn't a bad guess.

A few more centuries of barbarism is terrible, yes, but compared to 13,000 years, and however long humanity has to look forwards to after that, it's not that big. If mankind dies out, it has died out forever.

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Though, that's getting rather academic and philosophical.

You still don't get this, why are you trivialising a nuclear genocide, a thousand holocausts... simply because it could be worse.

It's an insulting comparison to say it "not that big" for millions if not billions of people dying and descending in to barbarism... simply because they do not ALL die.

 

[Thaluikhain]

You still don't get this, why are you trivialising a nuclear genocide, a thousand holocausts... simply because it could be worse.

It's an insulting comparison to say it "not that big" for millions if not billions of people dying and descending in to barbarism... simply because they do not ALL die.

Right, so you missed the part where the OP was talking about the total eradication of all life on the surface of the planet, and rendering it permanently uninhabitable for any form of alien life, did you?

 

[Treblaine]

You still don't get this, why are you trivialising a nuclear genocide, a thousand holocausts... simply because it could be worse.

It's an insulting comparison to say it "not that big" for millions if not billions of people dying and descending in to barbarism... simply because they do not ALL die.

Right, so you missed the part where the OP was talking about the total eradication of all life on the surface of the planet, and rendering it permanently uninhabitable for any form of alien life, did you?

You just spent the past half dozen posts telling me Nuclear war WOULD NOT end even all human life on earth let alone ALL life.

 

[Thaluikhain]

You just spent the past half dozen posts telling me Nuclear war WOULD NOT end even all human life on earth let alone ALL life.

I did, yes. Which is why I've been saying that nuclear warfare isn't as bad as what the OP was talking about.

 

[SirPlindington]

I would go out in front of the massed alien ships, missiles primed, ready to launch nuclear death upon either myself or the aliens... and then give it up and swear allegiance to them. I assume that if they can do this sort of thing to us, they're probably able to get rid of our missiles in some way. I would beg them to allow the remaining human race a reservation on another planet, since that's probably the best we can hope for now that our panet is wrecked. And then, if there are other beings whose planets the aliens have destroyed, we'll plot rebellion together, a plan spanning centuries as we slowly grow in size 'till we outnumber the aliens a million to one. And then, we'll kill them all! Mwahahahahaha!