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Alien Invasion

      I was watching another alien invasion movie today. And I feel that this whole Martians/venusians or Alpha centaurians are vulnerable is a big problem with the whole genre. I believe that no civilization can really discover space travel without first discovering the secrets of health and disease. And if they have discovered that, then it is only a matter of time before they realize that they dont need huge machines and energy expensive robots and exoskeletons etc. All that they will do is send an earth-rover initially equipped with a small biological specimen collector/analyzer and find out the genetic makeup of earthlings. Once they do that, they will obviously realize that humans are susceptible to a lot of diseases. They dont need to understand english, they dont need to communicate with us (who the hell except us wants to anyway ?). It is our (rather Hollywood's) stupidity to think that Aliens would come to Earth and stand before us and in a commanding voice declare war on us rather than surprising us. Who the hell does anything like that even on earth ?
      So if I were an alien, I would go ahead with my plan of biological sample collector/analyzer and send a few spce ships loaded with manufactured viruses. Maybe this has already happened and that is one reason why so may viruses have 'human' and other animal genes/proteins. Interesting thought. Maybe the aliens made a projection based on a small sample test and did not realize the extent of genetic diversity and hence their 'virus' experiment failed. Next time Alien Einstein, take a statistically large sample, lets say a thousand human beings. And who knows, maybe in the near or far future, a more potent and advanced program will be unleashed on us. That would be the way an intelligent alien who has discovered space travel would think and invade.
      The hollywood's alien way of thinking is as follows : send a city sized command center (actual working unit is the size of a room, but you need a city sized vessel to keep it afloat (why the hell is this levitation even needed ?)), install small and extremely vulnerable aircraft inside the main vessel and let them all die one by one. Then dont use spacesuits or anything (and this annoys the hell out of me, when we go anywhere else in the cosmos we are suited up pretty well, but aliens are stupid enough to come here naked) and go out and roll around in the mud attracting all manner of diseases (not to mention the human counter-attack). Then, since we (aliens) are so far away from the mother planet, supplies run out and so die at the hands of puny humans. Wow. If we idiots are so smart at thinking these things, why would aliens actually follow this plan ? Stupid Hollywood.

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swapna said…
yea.. goes to show that hollywood movies r not made by a scientist!
March 23, 2011 at 10:25:00 AM GMT+5:30
Ramachandra M Bhaskara said…
haha ! Seems to me that you are watching many movies these days! The one stephen Spielberg movie was kind of o.k. , the one where they find a something in the deep ocean, in the form of the water, etc instead of the martian alien faces etc, it made you think a little i guess!
March 28, 2011 at 4:51:00 PM GMT+5:30
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