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If you were an Alien with the goal to invade the Earth, how would you do it?
submitted 3 years ago by Leo_Littlebook from self.ScienceFiction
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[–]Leo_Littlebook[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (4 children)
That's ridiculously expensive. Just launch a bunch of junk into Earth's orbit and add more whenever they try to clear it. Blockade is a good idea though.
[–]Sw0rdofDam0cles 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (3 children)
For us humans with our current level of technology, yes. However, if I'm a member of an extra-solar civilization able to cross the void by means of FTL travel, I would have a variety of means by which I could contain a planet inexpensively. Further, if the force field has the ability to deflect photons and I decided I wish to destroy humanity passively, I would simply place Earth in permanent darkness killing off all flora, leading to the extinction of the bulk of complex life on the planet.
[–]Leo_Littlebook[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
If you're going to handwave everything, just say magic. The prompt didn't specify FTL. An AI Von Neumann probe swarm might invade the Solar System without FTL.
[–]Sw0rdofDam0cles 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." British Scifi author, Homosexual, and confirmed pedophile, Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
[–]Leo_Littlebook[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Any sufficiently advanced pedophilia is indistinguishable from Disney.
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