• groet@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Your analogy is lacking. Being technologically behind does not make us the monkey with the nuke, it makes us the human with the rock. Aliens able to travel to earth will have a very easy way to deal with “bad thing flying fast towards us”.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t know what about you but a shitty little grenade is still a huge problem to anyone unprepared, so is a nuke.

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        9 months ago

        Whatever is powering the ship they arrive in puts out more energy than a nuke and that thing would be running for far longer than an explosion. They’re not gonna give a shit about the nuke. At best, you’ll singe the hull, assuming point defense doesn’t blast your piddly little bomb out of the sky first.

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        9 months ago

        Yes and killing a few invaders while the planet gets orbital lazered from 2 solar systems away will for sure win a war against an alien force.

        Half live 2 got that right. The alien invasion is called the 7 minute war, because after 7 minutes earth had to surrender.

        The assumption of course is, that the aliens are as militaristic as we are. If humans are uniquely violent in the universe, we could actually win an invasion. But if war is a normal thing in the universe, there is a 0% chance for any planet bound society to win against an post FTL attacker. Even with many nukes.